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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...

The auditorium at the Ruth Seaton James Centre was packed for The Trail of Our People which offered a timely reminder about the origins of Cup Match. The event, hosted by Tina Evans-Caines and Gary Phillips, started promptly at 7pm as part of the Ema...

It has been a buoyant month for the world of marine conservation with two major events taking place — The Groundswell Lionfish Tournament and the Reef Watch citizen science event. Some 28 teams signed up to participate in the 2015 Reef Watch event wh...

A Crown and Anchor app has been launched by Nova, the software consulting and engineering company. Searchable on the app store under “C&A Royal” the application is part of a training and mentoring initiative between their senior staff and a Bermudian...

The Bermuda National Trust is offering a reward of $2,000 for any information that might lead to the arrest and successful prosecution of the person who killed more than forty parrot fish. Fisheries wardens spotted a male “acting suspiciously” in the...

A summer gaming academy is taking place this week at CedarBridge Academy. The event, organised by the Department of Education in partnership with the Harrisburg University Summer Exploration Camp, is aimed at high school students interested in video ...

More than half the Island are against increasing Bermuda’s population to stimulate the economy, according to a new poll. The survey commissioned for The Royal Gazette shows that 54 per cent of the Island disagrees with the proposition of growing numb...