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Canadian-born Donald McPhee Lee was the first Editor of The Royal Gazette, serving in the post for 55 years. Lee had an amazingly long tenure as editor, but a harrowing voyage on the high seas on his way to Bermuda nearly ended his career before it b...

According to CNN Business, “Facebook, YouTube and Twitter struggle to deal with New Zealand shooting video”. “Deal with” is code for “censor on demand by governments and activist organisations who oppose public access to information that hasn’t first...

Members of the media have been asked to tell the Government about how they can help highlight its work. The Cabinet Office issued a request for information as it sought “new avenues” for sharing news with the public. A notice published on the Governm...

It is a story of corruption that will stay secret, politicians who will need fewer votes to win, even dangerous communicable diseases that will spread faster as our best scientists struggle to fight them. The story is the slow and painful demise of l...

Frisson Ensemble, Bermuda Festival of the Performing Arts Earl Cameron Theatre City Hall Frisson Ensemble is made up of eight master musicians, young graduates of the top music schools in the United States. Their skills and repertoire knowledge ar...

A Joint Select Committee set up to investigate why protesters were pepper-sprayed by police outside Parliament in December 2016 has held all of its meetings in secret. The Royal Gazette can reveal that the bipartisan parliamentary group, which promis...

The media’s role in shaping perceptions of black Bermudians is among topics for discussion at an “emancipation forum” to be held on Thursday. The Department of Community and Cultural Affairs invited the public to attend the gathering at 6pm at the Go...

We live in an era rich with sexual documentary evidence. Mass text-messaging combined with the rapid spread of handheld cameras and photo-sharing technology have produced a world where every sexual relationship has a much higher likelihood of produci...

Three staff have been made redundant at the Bermuda Broadcasting Company, the firm announced last night. The Royal Gazette understands that departures include Jay Philpott, who goes by DJ Radigun and started on Power 95 in 2015. Also leaving is radio...

Nina Simone — Four Women is set in 1963 but the themes it tackles are as urgent and in need of frank dissection now as they were 56 years ago. That’s perhaps one of the most disturbing things about watching this 90-minute non-stop powerhouse of a sho...

I saw the future of political reporting half a dozen years ago, and I have been hoping to unsee it ever since. In the final week of August 2012, after Tropical Storm Isaac delivered a scouring rain to Florida’s Gulf Coast, an army of scribes and pund...

Last July, an engineer at Accenture was beaten to death by a crowd that thought he was a child kidnapper. They were angry, violent and completely wrong. The rumours about the man were “fake news” spread on WhatsApp, an incredibly popular messaging se...