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A story set at the heart of Bermuda’s 1959 theatre boycott has taken second prize in Code’s 2016 Burt Award for Caribbean Literature. Bermudian author Florenz Webbe Maxwell, who was a member of the Progressive Group that organised the momunental boy...

A Sandys man has admitted racially intimidating medics and police officers after crashing his motorcycle while drunk. At 9.15pm on April 19, emergency services attended a single-vehicle crash on North Shore Road outside the Bermuda Aquarium, Museum ...

While teaching US history at a public charter high school, Julian Hipkins III noticed that students tended to assume that “race” was as old as mankind. “Almost like it was natural, a given,” as he put it. So, using specialised lessons, Hipkins helped...

Last month’s heated protests over immigration have left lingering discomfort along racial lines, according to the group Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda. Lynne Winfield, president of Curb, spoke to The Royal Gazette shortly after her appointment ...

A St David’s woman has denied racially-motivated abuse and threatening behaviour against an Indian man. This morning, Magistrates’ Court heard that Ciara Martin, 25, made the alleged comments to Norberto Fernandes during a dispute on Chapel Lane, St ...

Dear Sir, With reference to Rob Corday’s letter in your March 29 edition, in relation to my letters in your editions of February 15 and March 26, Mr Corday is, of course, mistaken in imagining that I would have written my history of Bermuda in the 19...

In the throes of the work stoppage that brought Bermuda to a standstill, rumours circulated that senior persons in the Progressive Labour Party and Bermuda Industrial Union had a bit of a falling out over how to proceed, especially with the Governmen...

Dear Sir, There are two issues in which Bermudians are effectively uninterested: they are race and education. If you ask them about race, they will tell you they like their race very much and don’t see a point in changing it. And there is little need...

Michael Fahy has vehemently denied making racist remarks in a private conversation with the Premier, and suggested he may take legal action against his accusers. Speaking in the Senate on Tuesday evening, the Minister of Home Affairs said he felt “d...

Dear Sir, The recent to and fro in Parliament as well as in the media are indicators of an undercurrent of dissatisfaction within our community. When such dissatisfaction continues over an extended period of time in any society, it is either a harbin...

Dear Sir, Columnist John Barritt (RG March 11, 2016) writes: “There are strong views which reflect not just the political divide but the racial divide as well.” The political divide is underscored because political parties were established in the ea...

During the early fifties when racism was still an acute problem throughout much of the world, life for many who had a different skin colour or ethnic origin was nothing short of a nightmare. The struggle for true justice for all continued, despite a...