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A new community centre overlooking North Shore was welcomed yesterday as a place not only to celebrate Bermuda’s Azorean community, but to highlight the island’s many cultures. The centre for the charity Casa Dos Açores da Bermuda Limited, at the eas...

Tem sido um ano desafiador: it has been a challenging year. That’s likely how the Portuguese School of Bermuda would describe 2020 after Covid-19 wrecked its fundraising efforts and threw a monkey wrench into plans for teacher recruitment. A donor d...

The island’s final court of appeal will decide on same-sex marriage in Bermuda in February. The news came as human rights group OutBermuda released an opinion poll that suggests 53 per cent of Bermudians are now in favour of same-sex marriage. Adrian...

Dear Sir, In The Royal Gazette edition of September 3, 2020, you published a story about veteran Progressive Labour Party politician Michael Scott retiring from the front line of politics and making way for the Attorney-General, Kathy Lynn Simmons, t...

Bermuda’s final day in court to settle same-sex marriage has been set for early in 2021. Rod Attride-Stirling, who represents the gay rights organisation OutBermuda along with four other litigants on the issue, said last night the case would go befor...

Bermudians must stop “cherry-picking” on human rights, an activist said at the weekend. Linda Bogle-Mienzer said in the black community, she could not “bring my gay self”. But she added: “In the LGBT community, which is predominantly white, I cannot ...

The second gay pride event in Bermuda will go ahead tonight, but because of social-distancing it will be on a much smaller scale than the inaugural march last year that attracted thousands. Renée Ming, the Minister of National Security, authorised a ...

Jobless expatriate workers from the Philippines — most from Bermuda’s hard-hit hospitality sector — face an uncertain future at home as they prepared to quit the island today. Others from the South-East Asian country of 100 million people remained in...

Organisers of an event to mark Bermuda’s milestone first gay Pride march almost a year ago are unsure if a commemoration planned for this weekend will go ahead. Thousands took to the streets of Hamilton on August 31 last year in an unprecedented show...

Emotional goodbyes were said at the airport yesterday as scores of Portuguese workers left the island on a special flight to the Azores. Various reasons were given by the people scheduled to depart for the Portuguese territory. Some said they just wa...

Employers were urged to treat Portuguese staff fairly as a charter flight today prepared to take off for the Azores. Andrea Moniz-DeSouza, the Honorary Consul of Portugal, wrote on Facebook last Friday that the consulate had received “queries from Po...

A Portuguese charity is appealing for help to make its dream of a cultural centre a reality. Casa dos Açores da Bermuda had hoped its fundraisers would pay for the extensive renovations needed to open the doors of the old Sea Cadets’ building at Admi...