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“Great-power politics is back,” is a mantra civilian and military officials have repeated with increasing frequency over the past half-decade. The diagnosis has now been formally enshrined in the Trump administration’s National Defence Strategy, a su...

A Second World War US Navy officer who held one of the most closely guarded secrets of the conflict has died at the age of 100. Jim Humphreys was one of the few people who knew a German U-boat captain was being held in Bermuda to hide that his submar...

An intriguing slice of Bermuda’s maritime history has been making waves in England by attending nautical heritage ceremonies and anniversary celebrations. British engineer Malcolm Nicholson’s recreation of the Bermuda schooner HMS Pickle, which broug...

Six Bermudian sailors fought alongside Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar. George Cole, Christopher Baiscomb, William Johnson, Jacob Simmons, John Tucker and Francis Wellman all served under the naval commander on board six diffe...

A Royal Fleet Auxiliary disaster relief ship yesterday made her first call on Bermuda as part of her Atlantic patrol duties. RFA Mounts Bay is deployed to the region as the Royal Navy’s presence in the Caribbean Overseas Territories and Bermuda. The ...

Bermuda’s vital contribution to a Canadian victory at the Battle of Vimy Ridge 100 years ago was commemorated on Sunday by island historian Dr Edward Harris. The Bermuda Militia Artillery played a key role in supporting artillery, which cut through G...

February is Black History Month. Throughout this month The Royal Gazette will feature people, events, places and institutions that have contributed to the shaping of African history. In 1977, Ethiopia and Somalia engaged in a brief territory conflic...

Dear Sir, In the book Selected Speeches of His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I, the Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah counsels us on this piece of wisdom: “Those who seek Independence must be prepared to struggle for it rather than accept it; ...

On May 27, Barack Obama became the first sitting United States president to visit Hiroshima, the site of history’s first atomic attack on August 6, 1945. The Japanese Government did not ask Obama for an apology, nor did he offer one. On December 27, ...

Contemplating the extermination of Aleppo and its people, I was reminded of a sentence I read this summer. It appeared in an encomium to Elie Wiesel shortly after his death. It was a sterling sentence. It declared: “We must never be bystanders to inj...

Much of the world seems to have taken the view that the tragic devastation taking place in a place called Aleppo, in Syria, is some distant horror story that is best handled by that old saying: “Out of sight, out of mind.” Decades ago, that was not...

By the time Dameko Dublin turns 25, he will have served six straight years behind bars, missed all five of his daughter’s birthdays and lost 11 friends to gang violence. At 15, having been kicked out of school in Bermuda and losing his father in a tr...