125+ web files in a constantly updated compendium on Bermuda's business, culture, cuisine, customs, districts, economy, education, food, geography, government, history, internet access, laws, parishes, politics, religions, traditions, wildlife etc. For tourists, business visitors, employers, employees, newcomers, researchers, retirees, scholars. Funded by and linked to The Royal Gazette, Bermuda's only daily newspaper.

About Bermuda Online

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

To refer to this web file, please use "bermuda-online.org/aboutus.htm" as your Subject.

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

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

• E-mail questions about any information contained in any of the files below (all files have separate "subject" references), showing any of 125+ Bermuda Online subjects, are normally answered promptly (sorry, not others), when name, address, city, state or county or province and zip code (postal code) are given. 
• For those who have not yet been to Bermuda and wish to research it in advance, it is a uniquely useful guide. 
• It saves having to go from site to site to hunt for specific information of interest to most visitors - an important attribute.
• It is a private sector, not public sector, website. Most other Bermuda websites operate on a 5-day week but it operates 7 days a week including public holidays.
• It is the most comprehensive of all portal websites on Bermuda, with more than 120 in-depth separate but inter-linked websites in many different headings and topics. It is hugely more comprehensive than the Official Bermuda Government Tourism website. 
• It is strictly informational, not commercial, to ensure impartiality. Unlike most Bermuda sites, which focus on a specific service or product - or a variety of places only when they pay to be advertised - our information is solely from the noteworthy, quote worthy and newsworthy standpoints. There are no advertisements. In the few cases where recommendations are made, there are no "kickbacks" or commissions of any type.
• It does not require fancy or specialized software to access. Anyone with any PC or Mac computer can do so, via Explorer or Netscape or similar.
• All our files are original and exclusive to us and internationally copyrighted. 
• More than 85 percent of all its 125 separate and comprehensive web files are deservedly positive about Bermuda. 
• It is linked to and by the independent The Royal Gazette daily newspaper, Bermuda's ONLY daily, which publishes more than 75% of all Bermuda's business, community, financial, international, real estate and tourism news. 

• Updated in part at least once daily and in operation since 1991, Bermuda Online provides comprehensive information about Bermuda not found on The Royal Gazette's own website or official Bermuda Government's Tourism website run by the Department of Tourism. Both began long after Bermuda Online. The Official Bermuda Government website began five years later, in July 1996 (now at its Baltimore, MD, USA location). 

• It is still by far the biggest online repository of useful and continually updated information about the island.

What Bermuda Online does not do

• it regrets cannot answer enquiries from persons who don't give their own email and physical addresses and telephone numbers as reasonable bona fide confirmation their messages are genuine.
• it cannot answer enquiries if the subject does not include the subject showing you are referring to a Bermuda Online file. (Each of the 125+ web files shows a separate Bermuda Online subject). Nor can it supply information on places or people or businesses not shown in its own files, or any information on any organization that has not created an active electronic link to Bermuda Online, or undertake and provide any genealogical or family history or similar research on any military information not already on this website.
• Beyond what may be shown in a particular file or files, it cannot supply names and home or business e-mail addresses or telephone numbers of anyone, or refer or forward any e-mail, or send any messages on your behalf, or act as an intermediary in any other way. Sorry, but not even when people claim they have the most honorable of motives. Professional ethics require this author to uniformly protect privacy and avoid misunderstanding and potential contingent liability. Most people to whom you might wish to send e-mail will give you their e-mail address beforehand, or publish them separately. Please ask them directly, or try to telephone them. If you do not know their telephone number, use Directory Enquiries. (Sorry, but when the local telephone company deliberately does not publish its white pages numbers on the world wide web (as telephone companies in the USA, Canada, UK, etc. do), Bermuda Online cannot be expected to do what the telephone company does not. The same applies to email addresses. Bermuda Online has no way of knowing them. 
• it is not publicly funded in any way. The author is not paid or subsidized in any way by the Bermuda Government or its Ministry of Tourism, or by any accommodation property or any other service.
• It does not represent any particular hotel other place to stay or employer. Instead, it gives impartial advice on those places shown. 
• It cannot give interpretations or any advice on any aspect of Bermuda law or make any representations for any prospective employee . Always ask the Government Agency or employer or hotel or other guest property concerned, directly.

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