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There are plenty of new wines for you to enjoy

We carry more than eleven hundred wine SKU’s (stock keeping units in marketing lingo) but still we are often asked “what’s new? The answer today is “rather a lot” and I will tell you about a few that have arrived within the last month. In 1865 Willia...
Jul 11, 2014
Economy

Retail sales rise for fourth month in five

Retail sales rose by 1.8 percent in May — the fourth increase in the first five months of this year. Takings increased by $1.5 million above the $85.9 million recorded in May 2013, according to figures released by the Department of Statistics today. ...
Jul 11, 2014
Local Business

Public invited to sniff fragrance of a bygone era

The unveiling of the 150-year-old ‘Florida Water NY’ — and its recreation — was held yesterday by The Bermuda Perfumery at its new store in Butterfield Place on Front Street — and the general public are invited to smell it during Harbour Night this e...
Jul 02, 2014
Letters to the Editor

Not so fast with the ‘closed’ sign

June 24, 2014 Dear Sir, During my short stay on your beautiful islands I was interested to read that the William Hanbury, CEO of Bermuda Tourism Authority, has plans to increase the number of visitors by enticing more cruise ships to dock both at Ha...
Jun 28, 2014
Local Business

Tolaram opens high-end pop-up store

Raj Tolaram, who has spent his life in the interior design business, has opened an ‘extremely high end’ pop-up consignment shop and auction house on Front Street. Called Hilgroves, it is fittingly named after his grandfather, the legendary St David’s...
Jun 27, 2014
Other

Fahy, grocers clear the air over discount scheme

Home Affairs Minister Michael Fahy described a meeting with grocers and wholesalers regarding the future of a discount grocery scheme as “fruitful and frank”. While Sen Fahy said previously that concerns had been expressed about the sustainability of...
Jun 27, 2014
Editorials

Bermuda and The Locust Years

The period since 2008 has amounted to Bermuda’s Locust Years – the scriptural “years that the locusts hath eaten” — for both the Island as a whole and for too many of its inhabitants. A worldwide recession of almost unprecedented length and harshnes...
Jun 27, 2014
Other

Grocers and Minister to discuss future shopping discounts

Home Affairs Minister Michael Fahy said a discount grocery scheme has not been axed but reiterated that concerns have been expressed about its sustainability. The initiative, announced in November’s Throne Speech, offers customers at the Island’s thr...
Jun 25, 2014
Other

Controlled prices proposed for shopping basket ‘basics’

A price-controlled shopping basket of groceries should be introduced, according to Independent MP Terry Lister. He envisages a list of between 50 and 60 grocery basics should be created, with prices fixed across the country for three-month periods by...
Jun 23, 2014
Letters to the Editor

Credit to localpaint suppliers

June 17, 2014 Dear Sir, It is often said that Bermudians are generous folk, but it is important to reiterate that claim when validated. Since we began our community mural programme, local paint suppliers have been amazingly helpful with supplying sp...
Jun 21, 2014
Local Business

Perfumery racks up 3,000 online orders per year

Along a quiet, narrow street in St George’s is Stewart Hall — home to Bermuda’s biggest online retailer. Isabelle Ramsay-Brackstone owns and runs the Bermuda Perfumery which is housed at 5 Queen Street, and as a perfumer, creates the beautiful fragra...
May 22, 2014
Letters to the Editor

Taxing matters

May 8, 2014 Dear Sir, Consumers in Bermuda are being taken advantage of on an almost daily basis. It wasn’t always this way. I remember 50 years ago, when I worked building docks in the summer, going into Dismont Robinson’s on a Friday night and cash...
May 17, 2014
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