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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...

The Queen’s fourth official visit to Bermuda was the culmination of the celebration of the 400th anniversary of English settlement. The visit, from November 24 to 26 in 2009, came 56 years to the day since the Queen first travelled to Bermuda, but no...

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...

A giant map of Bermuda is being used by Purvis Primary School to make learning Stem and social studies fun for the Warwick school’s students. Art and social studies teacher Kievone Simmons completed the art on the school’s junior block in January wit...

The late Duke of Edinburgh was no stranger to Bermuda having visited the Island at least nine times. Prince Philip died at Windsor Castle yesterday aged 99. He was on island with the Queen for official visits in 1953, 1975, 1994 and 2009, and made sh...

In 1997, early in the first season of HBO’s prison drama, Oz, an unknown actor took to a stage in a fictional cafeteria and delivered a full throated, spellbinding poem in the “Slam” style. For seven episodes, the character had said little, but over ...

Sir Austin Ward QC, the former Chief Justice of Bermuda, has died in his native Barbados, aged 85. A quiet man gifted with a sharp wit for any lawyer who was less than thoroughly prepared, Lisle Austin Ward came to Bermuda in 1969. He served in priva...

The Covid-19 pandemic has forced a delay to celebrations of today’s 400th anniversary of Parliament. But Dennis Lister, the Speaker of the House of Assembly, and Joan Dillas-Wright, the President of the Senate, have organised a full celebration for t...

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”...

Controversial former Bermuda resident Lana Marks has been confirmed as the American ambassador to South Africa by the US Senate almost a year after President Donald Trump appointed her to the post. The one-time Bermuda tennis champion was confirmed o...