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Black History Month: Economic Evolution
Bermudian historian Dr. Clarence Maxwell [pictured] will be presenting a Black History Month seminar on the roots of island’s modern economy and culture on Thursday [Feb.16]. Sponsored by Business Bermuda, Dr. Maxwell’s presentation is a follow-up to his 2011 address on the involvement of enslaved mariners in the essentially international... Read more of this article
Upcoming: Cultural Identity Lecture
Bermuda College adjunct lecturer Quinton Sherlock Jr. believes the island’s racially divided past still influences behaviour in modern-day Bermuda. Mr. Sherlock will be holding a seminar called “A Bermudian Story: The Psychology Of Our Past” later this month to address what he believes is a continuing lack of a fully developed sense... Read more of this article
George Berkeley’s ‘Bermuda Group’
In 1729, Anglo-Irish cleric and philosopher Dean George Berkeley [1685-1753] set out from London to found a college in Bermuda “for the better supplying of churches in our foreign plantations and for converting the savage Americans to Christianity.” Bermuda would provide the ideal setting for the philosopher’s social and educational... Read more of this article
Video: Posnett’s Mixed Bermuda Legacy
Sir Richard Posnett, recalled as Governor of Bermuda under a cloud of suspicion involving alleged financial irregularities, left a mixed legacy on the island. He was viewed with suspicion by some in the then United Bermuda Party Cabinet during his 1981-83 stewardship for supposedly advancing a pro-Independence agenda on behalf of the UK’s Foreign... Read more of this article
PLP Mourns Jamaica’s Thompson
The Bermuda Progressive Labour Party is mourning the death of Dudley Thompson, the Jamaican lawyer and former Cabinet Minister who defended the late MP and Bermuda Industrial Union official Dr. Barbara Ball when she stood trial following the 1965 Belco riots. Mr. Thompson [pictured here] died in New York on Friday, January 20, 2012, a day after celebrating... Read more of this article
Bermuda Fraternity Marks MLK Day
The island’s Epsilon Theta Lambda chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. today [Jan. 16] sent 26 chapter volunteers into nine primary, middle and senior schools in the Bermuda public school system to mentor and teach over 2000 students in honour of the US Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. Yesterday would have been the slain American Civil Rights... Read more of this article
Business Bermuda Seminars Begin
Business Bermuda kicked off its 2012 Personal Empowerment Seminar Series yesterday [Jan. 12] with “Think Education Ends With a Degree: The Value of Lifelong Learning” presented by Dr. Janet Ferguson, executive director of the Seniors’ Learning Centre at Bermuda College. Twenty-six people participated as Dr. Ferguson explained the value... Read more of this article
Video: Upcoming Island Folklife Series
Throughout 2011 Bermuda’s Somers Isle Productions teamed with the Department of Community and Cultural Affairs for an ongoing film project documenting Bermuda’s rich cultural heritage. The result of this partnership — the upcoming “Bermuda Folklife Documentary Series” — explores the lives and work of the men and women... Read more of this article
Tommy Fox: St. David’s Uncrowned King
He was known as “King Tommy” — the uncrowned King of St. David’s Island — and once decided to establish the veracity of the Biblical story of Jonah by demonstrating it was possible for a man to crawl into the stomach of a whale. Henry Mortimer [Tommy] Fox [1860-1942] was a whaler, fisherman and renowned authority on hurricanes,... Read more of this article
‘Not-So-Beautiful Bermuda …’
Yellow fever victims being buried alive. A leper colony. And the fact Royal Navy apprenticeships provided blacks with a means of escape from educational and economic segregation were some of the topics raised by a transplanted Bermudian attempting to introduce African-Americans to realities of Bermuda life not touched on in post-World War Two travel... Read more of this article
Video: Greenberg On Bermuda Culture
CBS News travel editor Peter Greenberg is recommending visitors dispense with the Bermuda guide books and instead take the history books along when they go exploring the island. Mr. Greenberg — who hosted his nationally syndicated radio travel show from the Fairmont Southampton when he was in Bermuda earlier this year — featured some of... Read more of this article
New Biography Of Dame Lois Coming
The legal and political battles fought by Dame Lois Brown Evans – Bermuda’s first National Hero — are chronicled in a new biography by local author Colwyn Burchall, Jr.. Dame Lois [1927-2007] was Bermuda’s first female lawyer and Attorney General and the first woman to head an Opposition Party in the British Commonwealth. Knighted... Read more of this article
