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One of the first orders US president George W Bush gave after an airliner slammed into the North Tower of the World Trade Centre on the morning of September 11 was to shut down American air space. US Air Force fighter jets were scrambled with orders ...

Brett Jolly, a US citizen, was on a routine flight from Portugal to Newark in New Jersey on September 11, 2001. But it turned into a flight he would never forget after al-Qaida terror attacks hit his homeland. Mr Jolly said in a letter to The Royal G...

Two schools yesterday held services to remember former pupils killed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York 20 years ago today. Rhondelle Tankard, at Warwick Academy between 1982 and 1987, and Boyd Gatton, who left Saltus Grammar in 1980, were bot...

Lieutenant-Colonel David Gibbons was the Commanding Officer of the Bermuda Regiment at the time of the 9/11 terror attacks. Colonel Gibbons, now the Honorary Colonel of the Royal Bermuda Regiment, said that the island’s soldiers and other emergency ...

A thousand years after Leif Erikson – or his fellow Vikings – created a European settlement in North America, the great seafarers have finally arrived in Bermuda, having crossed the Gulf Stream in the Viking Orion, one of the oceanic vessels of the V...

A 13-year-old Dellwood student took home top honours in a contest in recognition of Emancipation Day. Alay Burgess Rocker claimed the top prize in the Ministry of Youth, Culture and Sport’s Emancipation Youth Creativity Competition with a creative vi...

The history of Asian immigration to Bermuda will be highlighted today. A Visible Minority: Asian Diasporas in Bermuda, organised by the Department of Culture, will be held at the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute, with the public invited t...

A century-old Burnaby Street building could get a new lease on life, according to a recent planning application. The application, submitted earlier this month, proposes restoring The Arcade with a combination of retail and residential spaces. Acc...

Two historical societies have received Government grants to fund education programmes. The St George’s Historical Society was presented with a $5,000 cheque while the Bermuda Historical Society received $6,000. A Government spokeswoman said: “Each ye...

Buildings in the West End – including the historic Moresby House – could be turned into holiday rental properties. West End Development Corporation planning applications, filed this week, proposed changes of use for Moresby House and the Star of Indi...

On a beautiful sunny day in July 1988, I sat with my great-aunt, Edith Burgess, as she recalled a church picnic held in 1903. She was 96 at the time and blessed with the remarkable gift of recall. It is only now that I realise she was recollecting a ...

An ageing replica of an historic ship is on course to become an attraction designed to tell the story of Bermuda’s early shipbuilding industry. Colin Campbell, the director of architecture firm OBM, said the revamp of the Deliverance was part of a p...