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‘If Bermuda’s prosperity continues to increase, it is to be hoped that the designers of new houses that appear will seek their inspiration in Bermuda’s older architecture. It is eminently appropriate to the climate and other local conditions, harmoni...

Defending Bermuda in modern times has nothing to do with the military preparedness of the Bermuda Regiment or the importation of a British Army battalion and Royal Navy vessels, but all to do with the resuscitation of our tourism economy, a once vibr...

‘Historic shipwrecks represent one of Bermuda’s most important cultural resources. The waters of Bermuda are like a museum offering scholars, students and the public a unique opportunity to investigate the remains of vessels that made our Western Hem...

This is part three of my series of Black History Month features on Blacks in Defence of Our Country set against two backdrops, (a) the spectacular 46th Annual Recruit Passing Out Parade of the racially-integrated Bermuda Regiment at Warwick Camp a fo...

‘Imagine being able to market an “island in the middle of one of the world’s biggest marine parks”. Just as Australia has the Great Barrier Reef, we would have the Sargasso for Bermuda - the “Golden Rainforest” of the Ocean with our Island surrounded...

As this is Black History Month, and against the backdrop of the spectacular 46th Annual Passing Out Parade of the racially integrated Bermuda Regiment, we began last week the first of a series on ‘Blacks in Defence of Our Country.’ Excerpting from m...

‘Well, if the breeze fails, it will be a good turn I have done the Yankees.’ Admiral Sir Pulteney Malcolm, Mount Wyndham, Bermuda, August 4, 1814. In a few weeks, Bermuda will once again commemorate the death of Midshipman Richard Sutherland Dale, U...

This anniversary year of the official settlement of Bermuda by the Virginia Company of London 400 years ago also marks the eighth year of this column, which, it is hoped, has indicated to many on this isolated pile of rocks in the middle of the weste...

One hundred years ago last month, Spanish Point grocery M Soares and Sons opened its doors. Today, brothers Dean and Craig Soares own and operate the store their great grandfather Manuel Soares founded. The 1,400-square-foot shop offers everything fr...

Seeking Twain’s quote January 2, 2012 Dear Sir, I was wondering if I could get some help with something through your newspaper. A long time ago when I was in Bermuda I read a quote in the introduction to a tourist book about Bermuda( I can’t remember...

Dear Reader: May I be allowed to introduce myself? I am Christopher Carter, the first permanent resident of Bermuda, or Somers Islands, sometimes misspelt as an eponymous ‘Summer’ Islands, like in the heat of July and August. In my day, I was lucky, ...