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Two trailblazers are to be celebrated at a dinner to mark Black History Month at the Hamilton Princess & Beach Club. Ruth Thomas and Gil Tucker will speak about their personal experiences and the importance of black history at the event. Ms Thomas, a...

Somers Day is to be renamed Mary Prince Day after a once enslaved Bermudian who became a hero of the abolitionist movement in Britain. The legislation, which was tabled yesterday, will also move the Bermuda Day holiday from the last Friday in May to ...

A group of pupils involved in a youth leadership conference planted a tree yesterday to mark Martin Luther King Jr Day. Pupils from public and private schools also used the occasion to signal the start of a massive Vision 20/20 tree-planting campaign...

Bermudians have been asked to forge strong links with St Kitts & Nevis, the ancestral homeland for more than half the population. The call came as Louise Tannock, the honorary consul for the Caribbean nation, discussed the long association between th...

“Now Main Street’s whitewashed windows and vacant stores Seems like there ain’t nobody wants to come down here no more They’re closing down the textile mill across the railroad tracks Foreman says these jobs are going, boys, and they ain’t coming bac...

A team of university researchers are to use a high-tech laser scanner to map Bermuda’s oldest church, in partnership with the Bermuda National Trust. Brent Fortenberry, an archaeologist from Texas A&M University, will use the technology to create a t...

Renovations at Sessions House continue in efforts to have the home of the legislature ready for the 400th anniversary of Parliament this year. Government said last September that the work included the replacement of windows as well as “health and saf...

Although Thomas James had lived on the corner of Burnt House Hill his entire life, he had no idea where its name came from. He discovered the tragic story behind it when he started writing Warwick. “One rainy Sunday afternoon, I spent about five hour...

A 17th-century-style cabin is back to its best after the public rallied round to help repair damage from Hurricane Humberto. The building, a replica of Bermuda settlers’ homes from 1612 next to the historic Carter House in St David’s, lost much of it...

“It can be easy to forget the lessons of history, including the tragedies of war, and ramp up divisive and destructive rhetoric without concern for the consequences.” — Gudjon Bergmann I have taken the time to review the Premier’s speech at the Pro...

Two contrasting ideas that underscore a tale of two cities: the Premier’s speech about market intervention, and Robert Pires’s purported comment that Portuguese were brought to Bermuda because blacks after slavery did not want to work. The two commen...

A writer and researcher said better education about the impact of Portuguese people on Bermuda is needed. Sandra Rouja said the contribution of people of Portuguese heritage to Bermuda had been overlooked in schools. She added: “I think the Portugues...