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A major fundraiser for charity is to be held today for the 51st year. The Hamilton Lions Club Gasorama, which has raised more than $1 million over the years for a variety of good causes, will this year benefit charity for the blind Vision Bermuda and...

A blame game has broken out after local construction firms claimed they were unpaid for months of work on the new power plant deemed “essential” for Bermuda’s energy future. Three Bermudian contractors, who spoke this week with The Royal Gazette unde...

Bermuda’s first coastguard unit was launched yesterday in the West End. A vacant former police barracks, Watford House at Malabar in Somerset, has been repurposed as the command centre for the unit. It will consist of 16 members of the Royal Bermuda ...

The story of the historic rediscovery of Bermuda’s national bird in 1951 offered students a lesson this week on caring for Bermuda’s environment. A group from the Whitney Institute and Somersfield Academy met at the Bermuda Aquarium, Museum and Zoo o...

A proclamation in support of marriage on the grounds of the Cabinet Office was met by 20 demonstrators backing the right to wed for same-sex couples. Walter Roban, the Minister of Home Affairs, joined Allan and Mildred Hunt, the founders of Heart-To-...

A plaque to honour the craftsman who created two massive chandeliers for the foyer of Hamilton’s City Hall was unveiled yesterday. The late George Trott carved the two wooden chandeliers, which weigh in at 500lb each, in 1959 at his carpentry shop in...

An attempt to claw back $11 million of government cash handed out to construction firms unpaid by the developers of the stalled Caroline Bay resort will be made, the finance minister has vowed. However, contractors said the compensation had not paid ...

Christmas cheer carried over into January as the Pembroke Rotary Club announced the winners of the 2019 Christmas Essay Competition. The annual contest has run for the past four years, and is open to both public and private schools at the primary, mi...

The sugar tax, imposed on October 1, 2018, collected $5,402,000 by December 1, 2019. The extra duty on sugary foods and drinks, aimed at reducing diabetes and obesity, was raised to 75 per cent in April last year, with the revenue to be used for heal...

Somers Day is to be renamed Mary Prince Day after a once enslaved Bermudian who became a hero of the abolitionist movement in Britain. The legislation, which was tabled yesterday, will also move the Bermuda Day holiday from the last Friday in May to ...