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Veteran Earl Darrell was 18 years old when he enlisted as a soldier with the first Battalion Caribbean Regiment in the Second World War. He left the Island on April 23, 1944 and travelled to four continents America, Europe, Africa and Asia. “Of cour...

*Two years ago I started researching a book about the British Censorship Department based in Bermuda during the Second World War. I have spent many hours tracking down the families of censors, as many of the censors themselves are now deceased. I met...

“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” Lao Tzu “Robyn, I don’t know if I can come to Buenos Aires.” “What! Why not?” “They say there are street protests by students often and there are pickpockets. My mom is worried.” “Uh, Ra...

“Where have you been?” Where haven't I been, I felt like saying. Sarcastic, however, is the last thing I would dream of being to an Immigration officer. “I've been around the world.” “Bring back anything interesting?” I couldn't hold back, “Interesti...

This story first appeared in Island Notebook in The Mid-Ocean News in 2001: We are not sure if there is one word yet that has been coined to adequatelydescribe an old Berkeley Institute student called Eddie Blue Lightbourne who hailed from Middleto...

When Dr. Edward Harris devoted his entire Heritage Matters Column last week to Captain Samuel (Eddie Blue) Lightbourne, he rekindled many of the thousand and one tales that abound about that colorful Bermudian. Eddie Blue sailed the seven seas surviv...

Dear Dr. Harris, It has always been my regret that I have not had enough information on black Bermudians, especially during times of conflict. The Bermuda Maritime Museum has gone some way to correct the dearth of information in this regard. But as t...