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The soon-to-be revamped Hamilton Princess has signed up a new human resources director. Jeanette Matthew has joined the team at the iconic hotel as it begins the first stages of a major redevelopment. Len Czarnecki, general manager of the island’s o...

Unionised bartenders employed by Fairmont Hamilton Princess have vowed not to pick up the slack created by the job terminations of three young Bermudian bar porters and two in-room dining captains. A total of ten employees, including five Bermuda Ind...

Bermuda birdwatchers have this week confirmed a sighting of a common raven on the Island for the first time. Conservationist David Wingate said the bird was first reported by David Barber, who spotted it on January 1 and again on January 6. The sight...

The Royal Gazette will be a key sponsor of the biggest fund-raising event in Bermuda — the Catlin End-to-End. The commitment will add financial support to the event and ensure full news coverage of the May 3 spectacle in which participants walk, cyc...

A pit bull was destroyed by dog wardens yesterday after it killed a Yorkshire terrier in St David’s. The attack — in front of the Yorkshire terrier’s owner and her nine-year-old daughter — happened at about 3.30pm on Sunday on Texas Road, according t...

More than 100 Bermudians got their first taste of life in Regiment as they toughed it out at Warwick Camp over the last two weeks. And with tired limbs, the new soldiers marched out of the camp gates in Saturday’s passing out parade. For some it wa...

It’s official: one of Bermuda’s classic place-names has been enshrined on its own signpost. Warwick’s Billy Goat Hill, though familiar to many Bermudians, isn’t marked on maps. Thanks to a proud and lifelong resident of the area, Renalda Bean, it’s n...

The cause of death for a snowy owl blown to the Island last year is still unknown after an inconclusive autopsy. Conservationist David Wingate said he had suspected the bird may have been killed by secondary poisoning — eating a rat which had itself ...

Evangelist Ruth Ann Marie Simons was in extra high spirits when she celebrated her 99th birthday a week ago. It was at the Lorraine Rest Home in Warwick, where she has been an especially pampered resident for the past three years. Ruth made it known ...

Doris Cholmondeley Webster, a Founding member of the Bermuda Industrial Union, has died at the age of 105. Mrs Webster was born in 1909, the daughter of Henry and Mary Douglas. While she was forced to give up on education at the age of 15 when her f...