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Calling all writers: It’s Christmas Short Story Contest time! The Royal Gazette is once again holding its Christmas Short Story Contest. The deadline is Monday, December 3 at 5pm. Stories may be fiction or non-fiction. Cash prizes will be presente...

The Bishop of London, the Rt Rev Richard Chartres, was on the Island this weekend to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the founding of St Peter’s Church. The church is possibly the oldest continually used Protestant church in the Western hemisphere,...

The Bishop of London Richard Chartres, currently in Bermuda at Queen Elizabeth II’s request, delivered a letter from the Queen to Governor George Fergusson while at St Peter’s Their Majesties Chappell yesterday morning for a special service celebrati...

‘… for a bishop to live at one end of the world and his Church at another must make the office very uncomfortable to the bishop and, in a great measure, be useless to the people.’ —Thomas Sherlock, Bishop of London 1748-61 Memo to the –Bishop of Lon...

A Christmas wreath doesn’t have to be made with evergreens to be festive. At least not according to the Bermuda Society of Interior Designers. They have arranged a special show and silent auction of Christmas wreaths made of everything from coat han...

Canon Thomas Nisbett would certainly be welcomed with open arms into the local Anglican clergy these days, but 50 years ago was a completely different story. In 1962, having finished his theology studies at Codrington College in Barbados, he couldn’...

The Bishop of London will carry a special message from the Queen of England when he visits the Island this month. The Rt Rev Richard Chartres will read the message at a special communion service at St Peter’s Church commemorating Bermuda’s 400th year...

The Salvation Army has welcomed the news it could finally get a new homeless shelter. The organisation is now in negotiations for “a long lease for nominal rent of a Government property”, it was announced in the Throne Speech. A location for the resi...

Last Friday, Muslims in Bermuda celebrated Eid-ul-adha. Eid-ul-adha is celebrated every year by the Muslim world on the tenth day of Dhul Hijah, the final month of the Islamic calendar. It marks an important rite of the pilgrimage (Hajj) of Muslims t...