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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, ...

Dear Sir, As each day passes, the Progressive Labour Party comments on the latest “Rentgate” affair makes matters worse. When any government legislates rules and regulates for the benefit of its residents, it has to be above the law if the general pu...

Dear Sir, Throughout the pandemic, it has been widely understood that teenagers and younger children hardly need to be vaccinated because they are far less at risk from severe consequences of Covid-19. The efforts to vaccinate 12 to 18-year-olds has ...

Dear Sir, With the tensions growing between the West and Russia, I have found it necessary to keep abreast of developments. As part of that, I had the opportunity to review a January 17 article by Ben Wallace, the British defence secretary, discussin...