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Dear Sir, There are some points of Martha Myron’s opinion that jump out as curiously odd. Such as, Eleuthera was settled by Bermudians in 1648? Were they Bermudians or Bermuda settlers? Because the leader of the group known as the “Eleutheran Adventu...

Tonnes of emergency aid supplies were loaded yesterday on board a Royal Navy ship bound for the hurricane-ravaged Bahamas. HMS Protector, the Navy’s Antarctic patrol ship, will stop off in the Bahamas with Royal Bermuda Regiment Colour Sergeant Sheld...

In church halls up and down the country yesterday, prayers were said for our brothers and sisters in the Bahamas. Hurricane Dorian, the joint strongest Atlantic storm ever to hit land with sustained winds of 185mph, has left in its wake a trail of de...

Further donations are not needed at the collection point in Hamilton for the Bahamas hurricane relief effort, according to Wayne Caines, the Minister of National Security. Mr Caines added: “We were not disappointed — as a matter of fact, we were over...

Royal Bermuda Regiment soldiers today joined forces with the public in a massive mobilisation of aid for the hurricane-hit Bahamas. Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant-Major Dean Rubaine was stationed at the Hamilton Seventh-Day Adventist Church on Kin...

A disaster appeal was launched by the Bermuda Red Cross after the toll in Indonesia from an earthquake and tsunami soared to 832 confirmed dead. That figure was expected to rise after the island nation in South East Asia was struck on Friday, with Ce...

Insurers and government-sponsored programmes globally faced total payout claims of $134 billion last year, only marginally below the record $137 billion of 2011. The biggest factor in those costs were weather related disasters, including hurricanes H...

Senator Jeff Baron met with a senior White House adviser in September about the island’s response to natural disasters. According to a spokeswoman, the national security minister met with Samantha Medlock of the White House Office of Management and B...

With deadly Hurricane Matthew heading towards Florida last night, two local charities have appealed for the public’s help in providing disaster relief in the Caribbean. The Category 4 storm, expected to be the strongest storm to hit the United States...

MUNICH (Bloomberg) — It won’t take another Hurricane Katrina for reinsurers to face losses from covering the cost of storms and earthquakes. Competitors such as hedge funds have eroded prices so much that a typical year of claims could move the indus...

Bermuda’s services are likely to be stretched to the limit during the America’s Cup finals next year. That is the view Steve Cosham, Bermuda’s national disaster coordinator, expressed to a group of risk professionals last week. The America’s Cup will...

When Hurricane Joaquin brushed passed Bermuda it left the Pier 6 tent as well as any hopes of having it ready for the beginning of the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series in tatters. But thanks to a superhuman effort from a team of committed Ber...