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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, ...

A local architect diving nine miles off the coast of Bermuda made an unusual discovery this summer a tree root planted 53ft below the surface. Harold Convers, who made the discovery while diving with Triangle Diving, said: “At first I thought it migh...

The Air Forces Memorial, or Runnymede Memorial, near Egham, Surrey, England is a memorial dedicated to some 20,456 men and women from the British Empire who were lost in operations from World War II. All of those recorded have no known grave anywhere...

In 2009, the 400th anniversary of the arrival, by crashing onto a reef, on July 28, 1609, of the English ship Sea Venture was celebrated throughout Bermuda as a major commemoration of that event, which accidentally led to the permanent settlement of ...

While many Bermudians know how Sea Venture survivors built a pinnace called Deliverance to deliver them from Bermuda after wrecking off the Island in 1609, their second, smaller pinnace, Patience, is often forgotten. In fact, not much is known about ...

I have today signed a document implementing the agreement of September last for the leasing of United States Bases in Bermuda and elsewhere and I wish to express to you my strong conviction that these bases are important pillars of the bridge connect...

A collection of images by an unknown photographer depicting life in Bermuda in the early 1930s has been found, and is viewable online. Rob Oechsle, of Bear Creek, Pennsylvania, purchased a collection of glass lantern slides under the impression that ...

He shall have dominion from sea to sea and from the river unto the ends of the earth. Psalm 72:8. Jardine Matheson & Co. is one of the remarkable business stories of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Founded in Canton on 1 July 1832, Jardines ...

“S.W. Smith was sent out to Bermuda by Edward Holl, the Surveyor of Buildings for the Navy Board, in May 1823, bringing with him the plans for the Commissioner's House which Holl had designed. He was to be responsible not only for the building of Com...