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First Black bank teller rose to become a Bank of Bermuda board member

Michelle Simmons, who passed away on Friday, was described as a dignified and committed woman of excellence

In her long reign, the Queen witnessed the 180-degree transformation of Bermuda from a racist and insular economic backwater into a progressive, cosmopolitan powerhouse, punching above its weight in the world. For 350 years, Bermuda had seen chattel ...

In her long reign of 70 years, the Queen visited Bermuda six times, the visits ranging from two brief aircraft refuelling stopovers to a full, three-day tour, designed to meet or be seen by as many people as possible. During that time, she struck a b...

Twenty-two years after her first visit, Queen Elizabeth II arrived in Bermuda on February 16, 1975. Bermuda had seen the desegregation of theatres after a boycott, organised by the secret Progressive Group, which pushed the island towards the end of ...

On arrival for a two-day visit on March 8, 1994, hundreds greeted the royal couple at what was still the Civil Air Terminal, where the Queen surprised many by making an impromptu stop to talk to the crowds of children assembled by the gate. Bermuda w...

George Lamming, the Barbadian novelist, has died only five days short of his 95th birthday. A towering figure in Caribbean letters and fierce proponent of regional unity, his work was part and parcel of other writers from the colonial and postcolonia...

When the switch was thrown at 6am on August 2, 1962 to radio station ZFB-1, Egbert Montague Sheppard had endured two years of roadblocks to the creation of the island’s second station. In 1960, after years abroad, Mr Sheppard, known widely as “Monty”...

World Human Rights Day was celebrated at Bermuda High School for Girls yesterday with a special presentation by first-year International Baccalaureate students to an assembly of the senior school. Speaking, ironically, as the world watched a memorial...