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About Bermuda Online

Unique information about our Atlantic island with who owns, writes and runs this website

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About the owner

Bermuda Online is owned by The Royal Gazette Ltd daily newspaper of Bermuda, the island's only daily newspaper. It is entirely independent of any political party and is the independent and impartial source of more than 75% of all the business, social news about Bermuda.

About the author

Authors Keith and Lois Forbes Forbes Clan

 It is written, updated, web mastered, managed and published separately by Bermudian author and international journalist Keith Archibald Forbes. The 125+ websites in the portal are written solely for Bermuda Online and are underwritten solely by The Royal Gazette Ltd. Keith, not employed by the newspaper, is a former member of Bermuda's Broadcasting Commission, Consumer Affairs Board, Board of Education, Junior Chamber International, Reserve Constabulary, Bermuda Regiment, Kiwanis and the Bermuda Macintosh Users Group. Keith spends 25 hours a week, 7 days a week including public holidays, writing, updating and constantly adding to this unique, impartial and comprehensive collection of web files on Bermuda. He has probably written more about Bermuda on the World Wide Web than any other local author.

 These Bermuda Online files try to present Bermuda accurately, fairly, fully and well. They were written to give all its readers an accurate, honest, impartial and completely truthful portrayal of Bermuda, not solely for tourists and visitors - more than 85% of whom come from the USA - but for consumers, educators, retirees and working professional newcomers who need to know key salient facts important to the majority of local and international readers. They measure up fully to the USA's high ethical standards in responsibility and accountability and comply with its truth-in-advertising and other consumer laws for the huge majority of US consumers. The whole purpose of all these consumer-type information files is to help visitors to budget adequately for their visit, with information most other web files don't carry. Bermuda is an expensive destination and visitors deserve to know this and why. This is purely to give them accurate information in advance before they come so they come prepared.

It complies 100% with local and international e-commerce laws, rules, regulations and etiquette. It is one of the very few about Bermuda without any commercial advertising. It provides information but does not sell any services. Thus, it is probably the only completely impartial travel website in Bermuda. It is a deliberate policy to have it's website jurisdiction in the USA, not Bermuda, for far better international and reciprocal copyright protection (Bermuda's copyright laws extend to Bermuda only); to comply with US consumer law requirements and US publishing standards.

He began his association with the daily newspaper when he delivered it in Smith's Parish when 10 years old, until he was sent off to school in England two years later. He began Bermuda Online in 1992.

Keith, not an employee of the RG, is not involved with the print or internet or archive editions of the RG itself. He welcomes the participation of any member of the editorial or advertising or management staff of the daily newspaper. They are always free add or amend files as they wish.

What Bermuda Online (BOL) does

If you have a query or comment, please ensure it is about something written in Bermuda Online (BOL). Always use e-mail, not postal mail, in plain text only, no html, no attachments. Replies are given only when email addresses show senders by name and who give their full addresses, towns or cities, state or province or county and telephone numbers (purely for verification, never for use by BOL). BOL shows what it is and who writes it here in About Us. Please show it the same courtesy.

What Bermuda Online does not do

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Last Updated: May 10, 2008
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