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‘Our department was called the Uncommon Language Department and was in the Adams Room of the Princess Hotel. And of course, the mailbags were distributed and we had to memorise black lists of any trade that was going on between the Axis and the Ameri...

This story first appeared in Island Notebook in The Mid-Ocean News in 2001: We are not sure if there is one word yet that has been coined to adequatelydescribe an old Berkeley Institute student called Eddie Blue Lightbourne who hailed from Middleto...

He shall have dominion from sea to sea and from the river unto the ends of the earth. Psalm 72:8. Jardine Matheson & Co. is one of the remarkable business stories of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Founded in Canton on 1 July 1832, Jardines ...

When Dr. Edward Harris devoted his entire Heritage Matters Column last week to Captain Samuel (Eddie Blue) Lightbourne, he rekindled many of the thousand and one tales that abound about that colorful Bermudian. Eddie Blue sailed the seven seas surviv...

Dear Dr. Harris, It has always been my regret that I have not had enough information on black Bermudians, especially during times of conflict. The Bermuda Maritime Museum has gone some way to correct the dearth of information in this regard. But as t...

Bermudians with Native American connections are mourning the loss of American Alice Mae Lopez. A member of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe and a tireless advocate for the poor and homeless, the 49-year-old died suddenly on New Year’s Day. St David’s Isla...