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"It's a snail eat snail world,'' Wolfgang Sterrer quipped as he pulled out a drawer filled with hundreds of fossil land snail shells. Dr. Sterrer, head of the Bermuda Aquarium, Museum, and Zoo, was unveiling a little known fact about Bermuda's natura...

The story of the Bermuda Land Snail is also the tale of a young man looking for a subject to build a career on -- who later became a leading scientist. Famed Harvard professor Steven Jay Gould stumbled onto the natural history of the Poecilozonites g...

Saturday's Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute Christmas Boat Parade has been hailed as a resounding success. In only its second year, the parade has joined the list of major public events that mark the Bermuda social calendar, with crowds linin...

*** Every country worth its salt has a national narrative. Something to which it looks for who its people are and how it has been built. If its people are not on the same page there is discord and mis-communication about the basics of history. A goo...

A nanny working for a former Government minister died after an accidental fall on a rocky shoreline, a coroner has ruled. Acting Magistrate Justin Williams said Herminda Villareal died on August 22, 1998 while fishing on the rocks near Shadow Finance...

The sentencing of three schoolboys for the Harrington Sound Primary School arson has been delayed because social inquiry reports were only produced yesterday. The boys will be sentenced on January 26 after their lawyers make submissions to the Juveni...

the Cultural Affairs Minister has promised. Terry Lister announced that the month and parade's respective themes, "The Spirit of Bermuda'' and "The Spirit of Bermuda: Millennium Moments'', will cause reflection among Bermudians. "They cause us to ref...

to take a library course on it. Conducted by Joanne Brangman, head of the Bermuda National Library, the Library Research Skills for Parents course offered by the Community Education Development programme will begin in the new year. It is not the firs...

a liquor licence. Liquor Licensing Authority chairman Will Francis yesterday told owner Paul DeCouto to return for a full hearing for a provisional licence on January 6 to give Police time to present their objections. The Par-la-Ville Road extended h...

through the use of a new reporting system. The change has been so marked that the Ministry of Education is planning to use its attendance recording system throughout public schools. After speaking with the Ministry's truancy officer Leonard (Shinah) ...