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July 19, 2015 Dear Sir: I read Friday’s article about the OBA Government by your columnist Mr Chris Famous and must say I’ve read it all before. It seems to me that the details from one column to the next don’t really matte...

Bermuda has been billed as a “new destination for adrenaline junkies” in prestigious international newspaper The Wall Street Journal. Freelance writer Charles Bethea visited the Island with his girlfriend and photographer Maria Lioy, who explored the...

Dexter Smith, who takes over as Editor of The Royal Gazette on Wednesday, has more than 33 years’ experience in the industry. Starting as a sports reporter with the newspaper as a 20-year-old in April 1982, he went on to become sports editor from 199...

Veteran local journalist Jim McKey died at the weekend at the age of 76. Mr McKey held many posts at The Royal Gazette, including chief sub-editor and foreign editor, and was considered one of the Island’s top political and business writers. He later...

Dexter Smith has been appointed the new Editor of The Royal Gazette. The 54-year-old Bermudian will succeed Editorial Consultant Tim Hodgson, who has held the post as an interim editor for the past two years. Bermuda Press (Holdings) Limited, owners...

Finance Minister Bob Richards has launched a defamation suit against Bermuda Public Service Union president Jason Hayward. The lawsuit comes as a result of comments made by Mr Hayward on a ZBM broadcast, paid for by the People’s Campaign. ZBM issued ...

Opposition MP Rolfe Commissiong has criticised The Royal Gazette’s editor Tim Hodgson for quoting John C Calhoun in a “racist” and “condescending” manner in an opinion piece. He highlighted the editorial, Exercising real people power, published on M...

L’Alliance Française hosted a concert of baroqueperiod music at Verdmont, the 17th-century Bermuda National Trust home in Smith’s parish, gloriously set in formal gardens flourishing with old roses and fruit trees, and with sweeping views of the Sout...

Long overdue reforms to a Dickensian legal system. Pending hikes in health insurance premiums. A potentially seismic shift in Bermuda’s energy policy. There’s been a flurry of genuinely important developments on the political front in recent days. B...

The One Bermuda Alliance has been threatened with legal action as a result of a post that appeared on social media. The tweet appeared on the OBA’s Twitter feed and showed Eron Hill, Christopher Famous and Makai Dickerson wearing bras at last week’s ...

The front pages of newspapers around the world, including The Royal Gazette, will be blacked out at Washington DC’s Newseum today to help raise awareness of the threats to journalists. The Royal Gazette regularly submits its front pages to the journa...

Dear Sir, Senator Georgia Marshall apologised for not noticing (like most viewers, I imagine) the disclaimer aired at the beginning of Gary Moreno’s interview of the People’s Movement spokesmen last month. We have to admire her for doing that, but i...