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The National Sports Centre is to get a bit greener with new energy-efficient lights expected to slash its electricity bills. Craig Tyrrell, the operations manager at the Devonshire stadium, said the switch to LED bulbs was part of a drive towards cut...

International Women’s Day will be celebrated next week. The IWD Bermuda Committee invited participants to take pictures at the purple flower wall at Hamilton City Hall. Purple symbolises women’s suffrage. Guests at next Tuesday“s event will be invite...

The RG/BSX Index remained unchanged at 2,610.14 as the only issue trading on the Bermuda Stock Exchange was Argus Group Holdings Ltd., closing unchanged at $6.39 after 1,700 shares changed hands. In New York, The Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son Limite...

Digicel is giving customers across the Caribbean and Central America the ability to call and text from their home country to Ukraine for free from today. The company said the opportunity is a show of solidarity for the people of Ukraine and their lov...

Winfield Herbert Simpson, nicknamed “Kid McCormick”, was the son of Horace McCormick Simpson, a Jamaican national, and Doris Trott (née Joell), a Bermudian. Doris was the granddaughter of William Herbert T. Joell, the first Coloured or Black man ele...

The family of a man airlifted to the US at the weekend after a series of major health problems has appealed to the public for help to pay for his medical bills. John Pitcher, 53, has faced several problems, including heart trouble, diabetes and paras...

Retail sales figures continue to drop dramatically — down nearly 9 per cent in the year to November, as overseas declarations rose 10 per cent. The Government said people are back to travelling off the island again and that means more clothes purchas...

Sheena Trott was “blown away” this week when her store, Chef’s Shop, received the International Houseware Association’s Global Innovation Award for retail excellence. Mrs Trott runs the store at 44 Par-la-Ville Road in Hamilton with her husband, Ree...

A near octogenarian taxi driver and former soldier faced down a man who tried to rob him, The Royal Gazette can reveal. The would-be thief bit off more than he could chew when he tackled Colonel Eugene Raynor, a former Commanding Officer of the Royal...

When a young mind is inspired it is more than hopeful, it is great — Lisa Baksh Aspiring boxer Chanz Smith met his hero last week in the culmination of a Black History Month Celebration project assigned by his teachers at Purvis Primary Scho...

A Bermudian-based insurtech company will soon release the first digital marketplace for trading longevity risk in index-based format. Longitude Exchange said the platform will connect hedgers and investors on a web-based ecosystem that is purpose-bui...

Dear Sir, Like many, I have watched the harrowing scenes in Ukraine. The situation on the ground is fast-paced, as are the international developments around it. There is no way of knowing what the situation will be at the time of this letter’s public...