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Hundreds descended on Tobacco Bay on Saturday evening to witness the first re-enactment of the theft of the Governor’s gunpowder supplies more than two centuries ago. About 300 locals, visitors and a 50-strong delegation from the Sons, Daughters and ...

A high-flyer aircraft engineer has launched a website for expatriate Bermudians to keep in touch. Emily Dunne, a scholarship-winning engineering graduate of the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who now works for Boeing, set up the n...

Bermuda’s lost sailors were remembered during an historic ceremony at sea organised through the Guild of the Holy Compassion in partnership with the Department of Marine and Ports. The Royal Gazette was invited to witness and document yesterday’s ev...

Scores gathered at Port Royal Golf Course yesterday afternoon to remember the actions of two Bermuda-born patriots. An historic plaque honouring St George Tucker and Thomas Tudor Tucker was officially dedicated in front of a delegation of more than 5...

The descendants of the American revolutionaries who won their country’s freedom from the British want to pay Bermuda back for the gunpowder stolen in 1775. More than $4,000 has been raised for the Island’s charities by a team of delegates coming to B...

An educator who ran a five-week summer camp in information and communications technology has said he is concerned by inadequate standards in the public school system. ICT educator Darren Burchall was invited by acting commissioner of higher education...

Anyone interested in Bermuda’s Gunpowder Plot should give Michael Marsh’s new book a read. He claims it’s “the defining story” of those events on August 14, 1775. “I had so many questions about the Gunpowder Plot and I had to find the answers,” he s...

Planning the logistics for this week’s elaborate re-enactment of the Gunpowder Plot, the first of its kind, has grown into a plot of its own. The team gathered yesterday at Tobacco Bay for some on-site preparations to recreate the infamous 1775 consp...

Supported by the Bank of Bermuda Foundation, the National Museum of Bermuda Press has recently published the fifth volume of Heritage Matters — the popular and informative historical essay series by Edward Harris. Heritage Matters was first launched...

A Bermudian student is taking an unprecedented look at the origins of the Island’s distinctive dialect. Rosemary Hall has spoken to dozens of residents and trawled through the archives as part of her extensive MPhil thesis on the evolution of “Bermud...

Health bosses are exploring ways to tackle crippling healthcare bills as a new study shows Bermuda costs twice as much as other islands. The Island’s healthcare figure of more than $10,000 per capita per year dwarfs that of all other 14 islands, incl...

Helle Patterson spent her childhood outrunning the horrors of wartime Europe. The semi-retired Bermuda teacher was born in Rakvere, Estonia in 1938, the younger daughter of Karl and Meeta Nurk. The Russians invaded when she was 19 months old. “Then w...