In 1972/3, Bermuda was rocked by the murders of five people: Police Commissioner George Duckett, Governor Sir Richard Sharples, Captain Hugh Sayers (the Governor’s aide-de-camp), Hamilton supermarket owner Victor Rego and his bookkeeper Mark Doe. Now British author Mel Ayton...
It's Black History Month again. Established in 1926 by Harvard scholar Dr. Carter G Woodson the event is celebrated in the US - and Bermuda - every February. I have to admit, I find it slightly puzzling that what seems...
I didn’t spend much time studying history at school. After three years of turgid medieval and Tudor monarchs I’d had enough and elected to do a GCSE in Geography instead. As a result, I left school woefully ignorant of the...
On the Thursday and Friday before the first Monday in August, Bermuda celebrates a two-day public holiday to allow its residents to watch a game of cricket. To understand what Cup Match means to Bermudians, think of what Christmas would...
In the oldest continuously inhabited English settlement in the Western hemisphere, five minutes down the road from where I live, can be found the hemisphere’s oldest continuously used Anglican church. The country is Bermuda, the town is St. George’s and...
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