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Online learning for prisoners is the end goal for a campaign to help bring books to Westgate jail, it has been revealed. The news came as a book donation drive announced last week was backed by trades unions. Chris Furbert, the president of the Bermu...

The Bermudian widow of an American civil rights activist and former pastor on the island has thrown her support behind a books for prison inmates campaign. Helen Foster said education and self-transformation had been “everything” for her husband, the...

Prison inmates will get the gift of literature from a new charity drive. The fundraising scheme was organised by a diverse group of volunteers called the Personal Empowerment Circle, who pitched in four years ago to help to improve the lives of peopl...

A secondary school has challenged the public to take part in an island-wide reading festival to celebrate the fight for racial justice in Bermuda. The Berkeley Institute will lead the charge in the One Island, One Book project by having pupils and st...

The deadline for the Stanley Ratteray Memorial Christmas Short Story Contest is today at 5pm. The competition is open to all full-time Bermuda residents and stories may be fiction or non-fiction. Cash prizes, Stationery Store gifts and gift certifica...

While there are about 4.7 billion active internet users in the world, fewer than two thirds of small businesses have a website. That tells a story of missed opportunity, says Alex Wright in his new book, Every Word Counts: The Easy Way to Win More C...

A bid to increase the use of libraries was launched this month. The Bermuda National Library is to run Library Card Sign Up Month throughout September, with the chance of winning a Kindle Fire. The library will collaborate with The Friends of the Lib...

A book by a pioneer antiracism activist is to go online. The family of the late David Critchley has given permission for his book Shackles of the Past to be offered as a free download on the Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda website. Mr Critchley...

An effort to identify a Bermudian boy from a Second World War era photograph has led to the discovery of hundreds more pictures from the same period. Horst Augustinovic, a historian and author, said about 500 photographs of the island by Victor Haag ...

Mount St Agnes Academy pupils will be donating hundreds of food items to charity, after hitting the books. Elementary students took part in a ’Read and Feed’ charity drive, getting sponsored by family and friends to read books in return for food item...

In acknowledgement of Black History Month, The Royal Gazette continues the publication of stories throughout February on African-American and global African people, events and institutions, and their contributions in history A professor, poet, a...

Saltus Grammar School is hosting a student-led assembly next week featuring discussions on Black History Month. Middle and senior level students in the school’s Diversity and Inclusion group will speak on the significance of Black History Month whil...