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Dear Sir, The following is in regard to a few statements made in today’s Royal Gazette (February 15). I do not want to debate the issue that grocery prices are too high in Bermuda, but I would like to comment on two statements made in that front-page...

Dear Sir, Despite Bermuda’s passing of legislation that introduced discrimination protections on the basis of sexual orientation being about 13 years behind the rest of the developed world, I’m sure people island-wide celebrated this new development....

Dear Sir, The issues facing the West Indian blacks in the latter 19th century reverberated all across the region with an exodus of out migrations impacting Cuba, Costa Rica, Panama, the United States and Bermuda. Fifty-plus years up from slavery, th...

Bermuda’s international business chiefs said they would swallow increased taxes if the Government continued to cut its costs and pushed ahead with reforms in the public service. Insiders added that the sector wanted to see the Government live up to i...

Monday, February 8 1. George Correia-Martha Ferguson 1. Russ Craft-Julia Beach 2. Pat and Barb Cerra 2. Sue and John Hodge 3. Dee Craft-Peter Donnellan 3. Julia Lunn-Heather Woolf Evening 1. Judy Bussell-Stephanie Kyme 1. Jane Smith-Gertie Barker 2....

Benn Smith and Cecilia Wollmann clinched their places in the Gold Fleet on day two of the Laser Midwinters East Regatta in Florida yesterday. Provisional results showed Smith in 28th place with Wollmann breathing closely down his neck two places behi...

When God shows you the calling on your life you can run or you can jump on board. The Reverend Dan Albert Turk chose the latter. The 62-year-old pastor of Emmanuel AME Church in New York was a high school student at the time. “It was the kind of con...

Dear Sir, Some time ago you printed a headline story about a food shortage in Bermuda. There should then be no surprise that prices are high. Appearances are misleading. Bermuda food prices have been in a non-stop upward spiral. Shipments come to mer...

A loggerhead turtle that underwent life-saving surgery to remove a rusting hook that had became embedded in her throat has started to eat for herself. The turtle, who has been named Daisy by the hospital surgeons, is continuing to gain weight as she ...

Government spending figures for the fiscal year ahead show a $7.3 million drop, reflecting the shift of the Department of Civil Aviation into a quango. The move had been announced last month by Shawn Crockwell, the Minister of Tourism Development and...

February is Black History Month and this year marks the 400th anniversary that blacks were brought to Bermuda as indentured servants. Throughout this month, The Royal Gazette will feature people, events, places and institutions that have contributed ...

Bob Richards yesterday spelt out the danger to the country of failing to tackle the Government’s debt mountain, while announcing an annual budget that will add to it. The finance minister said the debt burden “undermines our ability to support the ne...