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Ascendant Group shares fell nearly 20 per cent today, giving back most of the 29 per cent gain they recorded last week. The parent company of electricity provider Belco fell $1.09, or 19.8 per cent, to $4.41 after 254 shares traded. The Royal Gazette...

Rule, Britannia. Rule the waves. Britons never will be slaves. Cy Gavin has borrowed from this patriotic, mid-eighteenth century anthem for At Heaven’s Command, his solo exhibition at Sargent’s Daughters in New York. While his work has often shown a...

Retail sales went up 4.4 per cent in January compared to the previous year. Total spending, including $4.4 million in overseas purchases, totalled $89.4 million for the month. Four out of the seven sectors saw increases in revenue, with motor vehicle...

Lawyer Kiernan Bell is the new chairman of the Bermuda Business Development Agency. Ms Bell, who leads the Bermuda dispute resolution team at legal firm Appleby, replaces Caroline Foulger, a former partner at professional services firm PwC, who had l...

Talbot Wilson Newport, Rhode Island As of Tuesday some 195 boats have been sanctioned by the Newport Bermuda Race organising committee as qualified entries for this summer’s 50th Bermuda Race. And with another fourteen boats expected to be sanctione...

What would you do if you found a penguin in the freezer? That is not the opening line to a joke, at least according to the careers website Glassdoor. It’s a question that a job candidate at a Trader Joe’s in California reports he or she was asked in ...

Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace is urging Bermuda’s young swimmers to “dream big” after insisting that coming from a small island is not a handicap at the world level. Vanderpool-Wallace is one of the top competitors in the region, finishing third at last...

Just as Britain raises its minimum wage and as Bernie Sanders’s demands for a 50 per cent increase in minimum pay keep winning him votes in the United States, some politicians in one of the world’s most socialist countries, Sweden, are in favour of g...

For years, it was Lawrence and Karen Dill’s dream to travel to Tuscany but they never made the trip. After losing her husband in 2013, Mrs Dill went alone. It was with that same adventurous spirit that she agreed to direct Dale Butler’s new musical, ...

Richard “Dick” Reno has won the first round of the Chef’s Competition which kicked off last night as part of the City of Hamilton’s fifth annual City Food Festival. A record 120 food lovers turned out to see four chefs battle for the top prize at th...

Dear Sir, Your report in today’s newspaper (April 4) concerning the “Dead cat voting in Florida?”, quotes the “Supervisor of Elections is setting up a website to ‘VET’ election mailings”. Guess they don’t want to be accused of doctoring the polls. ...

Bermuda is playing a role in one of the world’s largest natural peril reinsurance deals, helping to support an ambitious programme to address flood risk insurance and reinsurance protection in Britain. The $3 billion Flood Re programme, launched yest...