Published in The Bermudian May 1991. There is nothing like Cup Match in Bermuda. Nothing like it in the world. Nowhere else in the cricketing world, not England where the great game was invented nor in the cricket-crazy Caribbean does a whole COUNTRY celebrate a cricket game quite like Bermuda. The food, the fashions and the Crown and Anchor tables are as much a part of the scene as the cricket itself. “Cup match” someone once said, “is where…
July 17, 2012
SUNKEN TREASURE (ran July 1969) The potent lure of sunken or buried treasure can infect man during his childhood when he reads such heady yarns as “Treasure Island”, and it can stay with him long after he has reached staid…
June 14, 2012
FROM THE CROWS NEST, MARCH 1969 With this number this sheet enters its 40th year of publication and, as in former anniversary issues, we take a look backward at Bermuda 30 years ago. (more…)
June 14, 2012
In the advent of Bermuda tourism, the island was strategically promoted as the ideal playground for affluent (white) Americans. Part II There were other dimensions to maintaining the racial idyll of Bermuda tourism. Whites coming to Bermuda had to…
June 12, 2012
One of the great attractions on Bermuda Day is watching the Gombey troupes come out in full force for the parade. With their colourful costumes and distinctive heart-throbbing drumbeat, the Gombeys have been dancing and entertaining Bermuda for centuries. The Gombey…
May 23, 2012
This article was taken from our archives. It comes from the Spring 2012 issue of The Bermudian. It appears here exactly as it did originally. In the advent of Bermuda tourism, the island was strategically promoted as the ideal playground…
March 16, 2012
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