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...
of Bermuda, that the Island has much to be proud of.
The remarkable tale of survival and success is told in The Royal Gazette's special section on the Millennium and in many ways, it is the tales of individual success and innovation against adversity...
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...
And since we are not just saying farewell to a year, but a Millennium, this is a moment-full nostalgia.
To gauge what the Millennium means to Bermuda, The Royal Gazette asked a cross section of well-known locals to share their thought about the past,...
Government officials were tight-lipped yesterday over a New York cocaine bust allegedly involving a Bermudian Customs official and a local footballer.
The Royal Gazette reported Bermudian Customs officer Betty Azzario was nabbed by New York drug enfo...
