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Tourists and locals enjoyed a day of history, culture and heritage today as part of the Plough Day celebrations in St George. The event celebrated 410 years since the arrival of the first settlers in the town and marked the first of a series of even...

The Town of St George is set to celebrate 410 years since the arrival of the first settlers today with the return of “Plough Day” festivities. The St George’s Stakeholder Committee, a group of business owners, have organised a series of events to cel...

The role of friendly societies in post-emancipation Bermuda will be examined in the latest of a season of free, virtual lectures. As part of the Bermuda and the Atlantic World series the talk will show how the societies played a key role in empowerin...

A rediscovered account of slavery in Bermuda has shed new light on its brutality after the story was “lost in obscurity” 175 years ago. A Narrative of the life of Benjamin Benson was written 16 years after the story of Mary Prince, a Bermuda Nati...

Let’s do a straight talk, assuming such dialogue is possible. Every leader has strengths and weaknesses. Bermuda’s leader, David Burt, certainly has some visible strengths, particularly his oratory skills, which have been very useful of late in the i...

The Department of Culture has released a calendar of events aimed at celebrating emancipation in Bermuda in the lead-up to Cup Match. A spokeswoman said the department would host and sponsor a series of events this month and next with the theme of “R...

Youngsters set sail to the Turks and Caicos Islands with a cargo of limestone yesterday to re-enact a centuries-old exchange. The pupils aboard the Spirit of Bermuda will trade the limestone blocks for salt while they learn about the global impact of...

The Bermuda Sloop Foundation has received a boost from the Government to support a special educational programme focused on National Hero Mary Prince. The programme, titled “In the Wake of Mary Prince”, was organised in partnership with the Duke of E...

An historic East End playhouse could be transformed into a “world-calibre cultural centre” as part of a strategy to align the Cup Match holiday with a United States emancipation holiday. The Emperial Group of Companies wants to restore Somers Playhou...

The upper veranda of the historic Commissioner’s House in Dockyard has been reopened to the public after six months of restoration work. Work on the almost 200-year-old building — a part of the National Museum of Bermuda — was required to address rus...

The grounds of Warwick Academy were a sea of red, white and blue yesterday when the school celebrated the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. Primary level students were allowed to swap their regular school uniforms for clothes in the colours of the Union Flag...

A selection of rare Bermuda banknotes sold for more than $6,000 at an auction in London today. The highest selling Bermuda item was a £10 bill printed in 1964, which sold for £900, or about $1,130. Another bill — a five-shilling note printed in Octob...