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The owner of an island perfumery is the new Honorary Consul of Canada. Isabelle Ramsay-Brackstone, the Canadian-born operator of Lili Bermuda, wants to use the position to strengthen the relationship between the two countries. She said: “It’s a great...

Schoolgirls became firefighters for the day when they toured Hamilton Fire Station yesterday. The Bermuda Fire and Rescue Service welcomed a group of 44 girls from the Bermuda High School, aged from 11 to 14, and taught them how to tackle fires and p...

The Bermuda Union of Teachers is as crucial today as when it was founded 100 years ago, its leader said yesterday. Shannon James, the president of the union, said the organisation was created to “ensure that Bermudian children received a quality edu...

The man who saved baseball team the San Francisco Giants for California was also a huge fan of Bermuda, it was revealed yesterday. Peter Magowan, the former head of the Safeway grocery chain and managing general partner of the Giants from 1993 to 200...

A repeat offender who was pepper-sprayed when he assaulted a police officer has been warned by a magistrate to change his ways. Senior magistrate Juan Wolffe told 55-year-old Marvin Woolridge: “You are not a spring chicken any more,” He added: “I was...

Benn Smith lost ground on day three of the World Cup Series Miami in Miami, Florida, yesterday. Competing in the silver fleet in the Laser class, the sailor produced finishes of 31st and 29th to slide eight places from 70th to 78th among the 100-stro...

The Bermuda Football Association have scrapped plans to charter a plane to take supporters to the Dominican Republic for Bermuda’s crucial Concacaf Nations League qualifier on March 24. The BFA had looked into the possibility of a charter flight, but...

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...

If you want to know Jayde Gibbons’s Bermuda, take a look at her photographs. Spoiler alert: there aren’t any beach scenes or palm trees; you won’t see businessmen posing around Hamilton. “My pictures are more about our culture, which is not defined b...

A man was treated in hospital yesterday after he suffered knife wounds in an attack by three other men. A police spokesman said the 25-year-old Warwick man’s injuries were not life-threatening. Three men, two aged 20 and one aged 57, were later arres...

Sir John Swan has found the enemy — and the enemy is us. Bermuda’s longest-serving premier, for decades one of the island’s most successful businessmen, said more must be done to improve conditions in Bermuda. He was speaking in the context of The Ro...

A homeless man who became a well-known figure in Hamilton was remembered yesterday. Friends and family said Reginald “Sonny” Furbert, who was 70, was a talented tenpin bowler, an avid reader, a sharp dresser — and a kind and generous man. Moira Bean,...