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Bermuda’s soldiers are playing a vital behind-the-scenes role in a major disaster relief and security exercise in the Caribbean. Royal Bermuda Regiment troops are a major component of the land forces for Exercise Tradewinds in St Vincent & the Grenad...

Victoria Pearman, the Ombudsman for Bermuda, has submitted her annual report for 2018 to the Speaker of the House of Assembly in accordance with her statutory duty under the Ombudsman Act 2004. The report was tabled in the House of Assembly this mor...

The Department of Education is advising that Clearwater Middle School students have been dismissed for the remainder of today, 21 June, due to no water supply at the school. While emergency work to a water pump was being conducted, the water supply t...

The Department of Marine and Ports Services is advising that due to inclement weather, the Orange St. Georges Route ferry service between Dockyard and St. George’s has been suspended for the remainder of the day (21 June 2019). For more ferry sche...

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...

Organisers of the Bermuda Carnival Raft Up at Shelly Bay said they made an extra effort to minimise the amount of trash that ended up in the ocean. Jason Sukdeo, founder of the Bermuda Carnival, said revellers were repeatedly reminded not to put thei...

Shares of Butterfield Bank were down 26 cents, or 0.71 per cent, at $36.22 on the New York Stock Exchange. It was a quiet day on The Royal Gazette/BSX Index, with no trades. The index was unchanged at 2,238.52 points, while the BSX Insurance Index wa...

Curtis Dickinson, the Minister of Finance, had the honour of opening the Toronto Stock Exchange, accompanied by a delegation from the island, this week. The group is in Toronto for a multi-industry forum, hosted today at The Ritz-Carlton by the Bermu...

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...

An opportunity to add new cosmetics and perfume brands to their retail offering was a main attraction of Brown and Co’s acquisition of part of the business of AS Cooper and Sons Ltd. Brown & Co, a subsidiary of The Phoenix Stores Ltd, is to take over...

Juneteenth — Emancipation Day, 1865 — was supposed to start a new era of black wealth creation. After 12 generations of being subject to slavery’s institutionalised theft, four million African-Americans were now free to earn incomes and degrees, hold...

A new polling website aims to gather opinion on critical issues facing the island from a broad spectrum of the community. Bermudian entrepreneurs Juan Curtis, Stratton Hatfield and Thomas Stowe have launched WECount.bm as an alternative to traditiona...