Fishermen rescued as boat began sinking
A fishing trip was cut short for three men yesterday when their 24 ft motorboat began taking on water.
Bermuda Maritime Operations Centre was notified of the problem around 5 p.m., amid fears the boat might be ...
Millions of asteroids tumble in a belt around the Sun. They live between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. They are mostly odd-shaped rocks way too small to be planets. Asteroids are the dinosaur bones of the solar system – the fossils left after all t...
This weekend's weather may not be a washout, according to the experts — even though there are three tropical systems in the Atlantic.
Bermuda Weather Service forecaster Nick Camizzi told The Royal Gazette last night that Tropical Storm Fiona — the on...
DATE: Sep 02, 2010 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
'Where the Whales Sing' a local documentary about humpback whales won the Emerging Underwater Filmmaker Award at a California festival.
Andrew Stevenson's film was honoured at the BLUE Ocean Film Festival in Monterey.
The film was directed by Mr. Ste...
DATE: Sep 02, 2010 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Owain Johnston-Barnes
It may be hard for us to imagine in Bermuda, but over 759 million adults still lack minimum literacy skills (that is, the ability to read and write), according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) website w...
A charitable organisation which set a goal to register 4,000 new volunteers to a website in 400 days has reached its target.
The Centre on Philanthropy ended the scheme — in honour of the Island's 400th Anniversary celebrations — after signing up 4,1...
Refs take part in FIFA course
For the third year running, Bermuda Football Association (BFA) participated in FIFA's annual Futuro III Referring course.
Held in Jamaica from August 2-7, the course was led by the senior manager of FIFA's refereeing dep...
Soft-spoken, petite octogenarian, Pamela Skillington Darrell, hardly looks like a woman who would eavesdrop on a fascist dictator.
But during the Second World WarI, Mrs. Darrell was selected by the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRENS) to work at Bletc...
What is net neutrality and should Bermudians care? Well they should, as it will impact who controls the Internet and what content they can access.
It is a particularly important debate for Bermuda, where there is not a lot of choice as to which suppl...
The Bermuda Health Council has extended the deadline for submissions on a raft or reforms it has proposed for the private health insurance industry.
The deadline was yesterday, however they have now extended it to September 15 at the request of stake...
