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A friend of mine once said to me that people tend to address or attack individuals when instead they should address or attack issues. Over the past few weeks, various personal and online discussions have helped to illustrate this salient advice. A fe...

They came at first to do the jobs Bermudians did not want to do, but the Portuguese have come to be known for much more than just a willingness to work hard. Members of the Portuguese and Azorean community discussed the aspects of their culture they ...

The president of the Azores is to visit Bermuda as part of series of events to celebrate the 170th anniversary of the arrival of the first Portuguese on the island. Vasco Cordeiro and other members of the Azorean Government will attend several events...

If you’re talking music in Portugal, Richie Campbell is a big name. He plans to show Bermuda why next month when he gets on the stage at No 1 Car Park with his 12-member back-up group, The 911 Band. “Wherever I go, I would rather go with a full team ...

Joaquim Alberto Barreto, a former Portuguese Vice-Consul and Acting Consul to Bermuda for nearly 20 years, has died at the age of 91. A career diplomat born in the former Portuguese territory of Goa in India, Mr Barreto enjoyed a lengthy tenure in Be...

Spirits remained sky high among Bermuda’s Portuguese community yesterday, the day after their team triumphed in the Euro 2016 football final. Portugal picked up their first-ever major trophy on Sunday after beating hosts France 1-0 in Paris, with su...

Members of Bermuda’s Azorean community experienced a tense couple of days as Hurricane Alex made its approach to the Azores. Alex, a rare January hurricane, weakened to become a tropical storm as it hit the islands, making landfall on Terceira. The ...

Singer David Bowie was a gentleman. His model wife, Iman, a little demanding. Former US President George HW Bush kept a secret stash of peanut butter and chocolate he would dive into whenever his wife Barbara was not around. Christine Francisco learn...

A small piece of Portuguese naval history cruised majestically into Hamilton Harbour yesterday as part of a four-month Atlantic training expedition. The tall ship Sagres and her immaculately turned out crew came gently alongside just after 10am, afte...

Recently, my son and I took a small trip. On this trip we travelled to a place we had never been to before and experienced a different view of a culture we knew little about. We ate some foods and pastries that we never usually eat and saw some tra...

Updating an old accord between the Portuguese and Bermuda governments is the first order of business for new Honorary Portuguese Consul lawyer Andrea Moniz DeSouza. Mrs DeSouza is Bermuda’s first Honorary Portuguese Consul in several years. “One of m...