History of the Dockyard Area
— The area was established when Britain was defeated in the US War of Independence and left without an operational base between Halifax, Nova Scotia and the West Indies.
— To do so the Royal Navy purchased 200 acres on I...
Thousands of convicts worked on it. At one time it provided 15 percent of all income in Bermuda and it was a symbol of British power.
Now 200 years since British sailors moved into the Royal Naval Dockyard and it became a strategic port to withstand ...
Inequality before the law
February 3, 2010
Dear Sir,
The renewed debate about Bermuda's Human Rights Act presents an opportunity to reflect on the words of Bayard Rustin. Rustin, Martin Luther King Jr.'s mentor, wrote:
"(T) he job of the gay communi...
A bill improving oversight of Government policies and programmes was finally passed in the House of Assembly yesterday, two months after it had to be deferred following complaints.
Premier Ewart Brown made a number of amendments to the Internal Audit...
DATE: Feb 06, 2010 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Tim Smith
Premier Ewart Brown will return to the House of Assembly today hoping to convince his critics to pass two bills they’ve complained about in the past.
One of them — a bill to waive cabin tax on cruise ships — is understood to have previously come unde...
DATE: Feb 05, 2010 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Tim Smith
BC-EU--Ireland-Mangled History, 1st Ld-Writethru,0534
British encyclopedia sorry for Irish history goofs
BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) -- Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc. apologized Wednesday for mangling the history of the Irish Civil War, a longtime ...
Bermuda-based Orbis Investment Management Ltd. is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the launch of its first mutual funds.
The company began operations in Bermuda and London in late 1989 with assets under management of $67 million. That figure has b...
DATE: Feb 04, 2010 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Jonathan Kent
Golf path long enough
February 1, 2010
Dear Sir,
In today's edition of The Royal Gazette, Mr. Robinson expressed his outrage over the cost of the cart path at Port Royal. Mr. Robinson freely admits "I don't know how big the pathway is but for that pr...
The world is still trying to come to grips with a human tragedy on a scale usually found in history books, as global attention remains focused on the massive loss of life in Haiti, and the giant task of rebuilding from one of the most powerful earthq...
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