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A charity wants to recruit a team of “weekday warriors” to help with restoration work on an historic fort. Work has already started at Fort Cunningham on Paget Island, St George’s Harbour, with members of the Royal Bermuda Regiment helping to clear u...

One of the most decorated West Indian servicemen of the Second World War, he was only ten seconds away from death on 80 different missions as an RAF squadron leader. And that was just the beginning of a remarkable life for Trinidadian Ulric Cross whi...

A landmark series of documentaries on Bermuda’s heritage, culture and history will return to the Government’s TV station as a tribute to its creator. Lieutenant-Colonel Brendan Hollis, a former Commanding Officer of the Royal Bermuda Regiment who die...

A virtual lecture on the accidental arrival of a slave ship on the island just months after emancipation is to be held as part of the National Museum of Bermuda’s “Atlantic World” series. The talk will be available for free on Zoom and focus on event...

My childhood memories of Easter are filled with kite-flying on Good Friday, going to Sunday school and Easter dinner with my grandparents. There were also the feminine activities revolving around the purchase of a new hat, white shoes and hair ribbon...

As Bermuda folklore tells it, flying kites on Good Friday became popular here after a minister flew one to illustrate how Jesus rose from the dead. Eugene Harvey doesn’t believe it. The 63-year-old has spent years making, flying and researching the h...

The culture minister has visited two museums in the historic former capital of the island. Ernest Peets dropped in on the Bermudian Heritage Museum and the St George's Historical Society Museum as part of a tour of museums and cultural attractions. D...

The Bermuda Historical Society has been praised by the Minister of Youth, Culture and Sport for its role in bringing the island’s past alive. Dr Peets highlighted that the society’s museum was one of Hamilton’s oldest cultural attractions. He said: “...

Employees of Fidelis Insurance Bermuda Limited are to learn more about Bermuda’s past through workshops on its history of enslavement, emancipation and segregation. Fidelis is working with the National Museum of Bermuda in launching the programme for...

Winfield Herbert Simpson, nicknamed “Kid McCormick”, was the son of Horace McCormick Simpson, a Jamaican national, and Doris Trott (née Joell), a Bermudian. Doris was the granddaughter of William Herbert T. Joell, the first Coloured or Black man ele...

A former teacher and civil servant said it was up to everyone in Bermuda to highlight people who had contributed to the island. Gary Phillips explained that his own upbringing had left him with no questions about his Black identity, which helped to s...

About 30 people commemorated the 187th anniversary of when 78 enslaved Black Americans were given a chance of a new life in Bermuda. Politicians and entertainers gathered in Barr’s Bay Park in Hamilton in memory of those on board the Enterprise, a US...