Log In

It will be the first one for this millennium and if locals miss it, they will not be able to feast their eyes on anything remotely similar until Christmas Day. Next week a total lunar eclipse will draw stargazers and the curious alike outside to watc...

of St. George's, Hamilton, Smith's, Pembroke and Devonshire, tomorrow. The pick-up will not include Tee Street and Kent Avenue. On Wednesday, January 19, the trees will be collected from Sandys, Southampton, Warwick, and Paget. Trees from Tee Street ...

or abroad, in the past 100 years. We also gave them the opportunity to name people who were not born Bermudians, but whose main body of work had been done in Bermuda. Our panellists were: Mrs. Louise Jackson, MBE, JP, Mrs. Elsbeth Gibson, Mr. Ronald ...

For a few minutes at midnight, historic St. George was thrown onto the world's centre stage as live television pictures of the Millennium celebrations were beamed around the globe. After the countdown, Premier Jennifer Smith proclaimed: "New Year's g...

people, the dangers of oligarchical government is fully realised. `Democracy' is a mockery as far as Bermuda is concerned.'' -- E.F. Gordon, Petition to the Secretary of State, 1945. The opening salvo in the battle for universal franchise was deliver...

of an elderly woman who was beaten by machete-wielding robbers in her own home. Victim Mary Pickles, 78, said our seemingly sedate Island was becoming violent -- a fact not lost on the Canadian authors of the Boycott Bermuda website who were angry ab...

That the rapid and general spread of knowledge in our days has rendered necessary an education as thorough and extended as possible. -- Berkeley Educational Society, 1881 The class of 1900 was ill equipped to compete in the exciting and demanding ne...

At the end of the 20th Century, we hold the rightness of universal franchise to be self evident. Yet at the beginning of the century, nations considered the majority of their citizens unfit to vote: all women and those men who did not own land. Ironi...

A little over a week ago, seven prominent historians gathered at The Royal Gazette's offices to decide on the 100 people who had made the greatest contribution to the Island's history. They were asked to choose the 100 on the basis of their impact. I...

Dr. Edward Harris, Hilton Hill II, and Dalton Tucker top the Millennium New Year's Honours list from the Queen. The trio were appointed Members of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) on the list which was released yesterday afternoon...