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Dear Sir, We are once again asking your newspaper for this note of appreciation and heartfelt thanks to our Bermuda community. A very special thanks to The MarketPlace for the use of all their premises for our Share the Christmas Spirit Tag Day, whic...

Dear Sir, The headline in today’s edition (February 14, 2022) of The Royal Gazette says it all: “Shock as finance minister resigns”. I am deeply saddened by this announcement. In my opinion, Finance Minister Dickinson is an exceptional public serva...

Dear Sir, The late, great Larry Burchall wrote about many things in his Bermuda Sun opinion pieces. His voice was a powerful one over 15 or so years and, sadly, many of his grave economic predictions have come to pass. Here is one that concerns every...

Dear Sir, Thank you for the fascinating information included in February’s Black History Month coverage in The Royal Gazette. I knew nothing about Eddie “The Sheikh” Gardner, for instance. What a great man! What an inspiring story! Glenn Fubler told...

Dear Sir, I’m sure this idea has been floated before. Why not organise groups of our Westgate “residents” to take care of trimming roadside foliage, keeping the parks tidy and generally helping to carry out some of the jobs that our Works & Engineeri...

Dear Sir, I was driving behind a public bus and took note of the rear window. It showed a photograph of William Usher Jr, illustrious alumnus of the Berkeley Institute. Although a privately sponsored advertisement, the caption read, “Shape your Caree...

Dear Sir, We area residents and friends — plus the people of Bermuda, I’m sure — would like to salute and say thank you to Joseph Young and cousin Randy Bean for fixing in January 2022 the defamation of the writing on the wall at the top of Scaur Hi...

Dear Sir, Further to your report on stolen produce, some years ago my next-door neighbour had a large avocado pear tree. This was a year when he had a bumper crop. He was not living in the house at the time, so we came to an agreement — I would harve...

Dear Sir, Are books duty-free in Bermuda? A dear friend of mine, Major Effiom B. Whyte, retired airline pilot of Air Jamaica Limited and Caribbean Airlines Limited, and former National Co-ordinator of the Governor-General of Jamaica’s Programme of Ex...

Dear Sir, On the Bermuda Parliament website, under the main menu heading “House Business”, when you click on the side category “Committees”, you will find eight of them listed, one of which is the Public Accounts Committee. According to the website, ...