Seventy six year-old Stanley Paris set sail from St. David’s this morning, hoping to become the oldest man to circumnavigate the globe.
His attempt comes more than 10 years after his son Alan completed the trip to become the first Bermudian to do so ...
A petition urging Government to reconsider dangerous dog legislation and return a pit bull puppy to its owners has continued to garner support.
As of yesterday afternoon, the change.org petition had more than 1,600 signatures.
The issue was highlight...
DATE: Dec 06, 2013 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Owain Johnston-Barnes
A petition has been launched to save a pit bull puppy scheduled to be destroyed because it’s an “illegal dog”.
Reyel Bowen told The Royal Gazette earlier this week that Hershey was taken from his property in October. On Tuesday, he received word that...
DATE: Dec 05, 2013 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Owain Johnston-Barnes
Hospital bosses are trying to stop an inquest being held into the death of bar owner Hubert (Hubie) Brown.
Mr Brown, who ran Hubie’s bar and jazz club on Angle Street, died aged 66 in December 2002 at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital.
Senior Coroner...
DATE: Dec 04, 2013 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
Bermuda-based insurance and reinsurance firm Catlin has sponsored a group of wounded ex-services personnel on a trek to the South Pole, the firm announced yesterday.
Catlin has donated insurance for teams from the UK, the US, Canada and Australia for...
DATE: Dec 04, 2013 | CATEGORY: Reinsurance | AUTHOR: Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Saltus Grammar School parents have drawn up an online petition to keep a music teacher after the school decided against renewing his contract.
As of yesterday afternoon, more than 100 people had signed the petition, which urges the school to reconsid...
DATE: Nov 29, 2013 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Owain Johnston-Barnes
For directions to Sesame Street from Happy Valley, Pembroke, just ask Mel Ming.
Now President and CEO of The Sesame Workshop — the non-profit educational organisation behind the iconic children’s show — Mr Ming’s career has rarely wavered from its up...
The Department of Immigration has granted Bermudian status to a six-year-old boy whose mother had been told he didn’t qualify.
The child was born on the Island to Bermudian parents, allegedly as the result of a rape, as revealed by The Royal Gazette ...
DATE: Nov 27, 2013 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
Bermuda’s freedom of information law could finally be enacted next year, according to a report published by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office yesterday.
The report by the Overseas Territories Joint Ministerial Council, on the Government’s progress ...
DATE: Nov 27, 2013 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
The Bermuda Music Users Group is calling on representatives for the Island’s businesses and charities to meet tomorrow to discuss music licencing rates on the Island.
Group spokesman Ben Fairn said yesterday that it was understood that representative...
DATE: Nov 26, 2013 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Owain Johnston-Barnes
