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More than 300 people attended the gin festival Gindulgence at the Hamilton Princess and Beach Club on Saturday evening. Organised by the hotel’s sommelier, Alexandra Taflan, the festival was billed as a celebration of the perfect summer spirit.

It would be very easy to start a war with Iran and there is no question of whether the United States is the stronger of the two militarily with its superior airpower. However, war is about outcome and achieving goals that neutralise the opposition. E...

A “born journalist” who spent decades at The Royal Gazette has died, aged 65. Kyle Hunter, whose career with the Gazette began in 1974 and spanned news, sports and photography, died at home in St George’s on Friday surrounded by his loved ones. He re...

The Progressive Labour Party has denied the Senate’s attempt to change legislation over the appointment of staff by Cabinet ministers. The Senate had returned the Premier, Ministers and Opposition Leader Personal Staffs Act to the House of Assembly e...

A homeless man sent a series of death threats against David Burt and his family in a “campaign of abuse and harassment”, the Supreme Court heard yesterday. The Premier, who has two young children, was “alarmed and disturbed” by the messages, which ra...

Members of the Mirrors Programme will join forces with the Department of Parks to clean up the Southlands property in Warwick. Teams will unite and will clear natural debris, trash and abandoned furniture and learn about the history of endemic and in...

The Ministry of Education will provide scholarship opportunities for Bermudian students to attend The University of the West Indies. Education minister Diallo Rabain said the ministry would dedicate $35,000 from its current scholarship budget to help...

Somers Day was observed for nearly two decades before Parliament created the two-day Cup Match holiday in 1947. The first known public commemoration of Sir George Somers’s 1609 landing of the Sea Venture occurred in 1929. On July 28, 1931, Somers Day...

Did Cup Match originate with the emancipation of slaves on August 1, 1834? If so, why was the first Cup Match played on June 12, 1902 — a date that recently passed without mention? How did “Somers Day” come to be the second day of Cup Match? New res...

A Hamilton hotel is to provide a tonic for gin lovers on the island. Gindulgence will be held from 5pm to 7pm on Saturday on the Regency Terrace at the Hamilton Princess. Gin importers Burrows Lightbourn, Gosling’s, Discovery Wines, Two Rock Wines a...

The Government asked organisations to show how they could help fund the replacement of Longbird Bridge and Swing Bridge, according to documents published on its website. A request for information issued through the Ministry of Public Works also appea...

Dear Sir, I am all for people celebrating heritage or heroes, or whatever floats their boat, but it is totally disrespectful of the wider community for a group of people on White’s Island to start their loud music, hosted by an even louder DJ, at 6.3...