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Seeing how our culture has bridged Bermuda’s many divides has been one of the most rewarding aspects of Heather Whalen’s 22-year career in the arts. The former director of the Department of Community and Cultural Affairs revelled in experiencing bla...

We’re celebrating Bermudian Excellence this Heritage Month. And today, the Minister of Labour, Community Affairs and Sports, the Hon. Lovitta Foggo congratulated this year’s winners of the Cultural Apprenticeship Showcase. Colita Cook-Shillingford ...

May 1st signals the start of Heritage Month, and with this year’s theme being - Bermudian Excellence, the Department of Community and Cultural Affairs have a number of activities planned to celebrate Bermuda’s culture. The Minister of Labour, Commun...

Community affairs minister Lovitta Foggo announced a series of updates on programmes within Department of Community and Cultural Affairs in a Ministerial Statement at the House of Assembly today. • To read Lovitta Foggo’s statement, click on the PDF ...

Born in America to Liberian refugees, all Archel Bernard wanted was to fit in. It wasn’t always possible. Questions were asked about the jollof rice in her lunch box and then there was her mother, who insisted on picking her up from school in traditi...

The historic Perot Post Office on Hamilton’s Queen Street reopened yesterday after a major refurbishment. Walton Brown, the Minister for the Cabinet Office, said the renovated post office will now be the home of the Bermuda Philatelic Bureau, which u...

Performance artists from Grenada and the US Virgin Islands are to join in the Bermuda International Gombey Festival this weekend. The bright-coloured Shortknee, from Grenada, wear a wire screen mask over a whitened face and perform rhythmic stomping ...

There will always be an exception to any observation, but what must be understood is that it does not undermine the latter. It is impossible to forget a culture that never existed but was fixed by imperial forces like a prosthetic limb on to an invis...

Trené Todd was nervous getting on the plane to Bermuda. It was her first time visiting her father’s birthplace, and she didn’t want to stick out. “My aunt Nancy Cruz warned me to wear something red and blue,” said the 26-year-old, who arrived just be...

An arts and crafts show for seniors was held to mark May’s Heritage Month. The island’s older residents showcased their handiwork at a special exhibition. The tenth annual seniors’ show was themed “what we share”, and was held in the horticultural ha...

After 25 years, the self-proclaimed kings of fishcakes will step down to make way for a new king or queen. Dale Butler and Rodney Smith have won the National Fishcake Competition title since its inception in 1992. Mr Butler, who created the competiti...

The crucial role Africans played in the early days of Bermuda is to be explored tonight at Bermuda College. Bermudian historian Clarence Maxwell said people taken from Africa “helped define a lot of the foundation for what ended up happening later in...