2962. 🇧🇲 Bermuda Commemorates The Bermuda Regiment.

New issues -

🇧🇲 Postal service of Bermuda -

17 September 2026 - 65th anniversary of the Bermuda Regiment - 6 stamps. Lithographed. Rating:- ****.

🇧🇧 Barbados Post -

17 August 2026 - Bajan rum shops - 5 stamps. Designed by Gail O’Kane, a local artist. Lithographed. Other illustrations awaited. Rating:- ****.

2897. 🇳🇿 New Zealand Celebrates Foraging.

 

New issues -

🇳🇿 New Zealand Post -

6 May 2026 - ‘Foraging’ - 4 gummed stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing all 4 stamps . Designed by Nick Jarvie and lithographed by Brebner Print. Attractive but inconsequential. Rating:- *.

🇮🇳India Post -

12 April 2026 - India’s human space programme - 2 stamps and 2 miniature sheets each containing a single stamp. Rating:- ****.

🇲🇾 Pos Malaysia -

24 February 2026 - Horses - 2 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- ****.

2886. 🇭🇰 Hong Kong Issues Children’s Stamps.

 

New issues -

🇭🇰 Hong Kong Post -

30 April 2026 - Children’s stamps, Animals in Chinese idioms - 4 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing all 4 stamps. Designed by Paul Lam & lithographed. Rating:- *.

🇲🇲 Myanmar Post -

27 March 2026 - Myanmar coffee - 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Lithographed by Security Printing Works, Myanmar and designed by Myanmar Post and perforated 14. Rating:- ****.

Commonwealth countries not known to have issued, or had issued on their behalf, any legitimate postage stamps during 2026 up until the end of March- 

Anguilla 

Antigua and Barbuda 

Australia Cocos (Keeling) Islands 

Australia Norfolk Island 

Australian Antarctic Territory 

Bahamas 

Barbados 

Belize 

Bermuda 

Botswana 

British Antarctic Territory 

British Indian Ocean Territory 

British Virgin Islands 

Cameroon

Cook Islands including Rarotonga 

Cook Islands Aitutaki 

Cook Islands Penrhyn 

Dominica 

Gabon 

Grenada

Grenada Carriacou and Petite Martinique 

Guernsey Sark

Guyana 

Jamaica 

Kenya

Kingdom of eSwatini 

Kiribati 

Lesotho 

Malawi 

Maldives 

Mauritius

Montserrat 

Mozambique 

Namibia

Nevis 

New Zealand Ross Dependency 

Niue

Papua New Guinea 

Pitcairn Islands 

Rwanda

St Helena 

St Kitts/St Kitts Nevis

St Vincent and the Grenadines 

Samoa

Seychelles 

Solomon Islands 

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands 

Tokelau 

Tonga

Tonga Niuafo’ou

Trinidad and Tobago 

Turks and Caicos Islands 

Tuvalu 

Uganda 

United Republic of Tanzania 

Vanuatu 

Zambia 

Therefore, at the end of March, 57 out of 88 Commonwealth philatelic entities (64.8%) have not issued, or had issued on their behalf, during 2026. This compares with 73.9% at the end of February and 76.1% at the end of March 2026.

2883. 🇸🇬 Singapore Promotes Health.

 

New issues -

🇸🇬 Singapore Post -

1 April 2026 - 25th anniversary of the Health Promotion Board - 5 stamps. Lithographed. Rating:- ***.

🇮🇲 Isle Of Man Post Office -

7 April 2026 - Commemoration of the late Trevor Hemmings CVO, racing horse trainer - 6 stamps (cost £12.97) 1 Prestige booklet containing 2 panes each of the 6 stamps) (cost ££25.94) and 1 pane of 6 self-adhesive stamps (one of each) costing £12.97. Total cost - £51.88. Designed by Grossick Photography and lithographed by bpost and perforated 11.5. Rating:- *. This issue does not appear to be related to any particular anniversary associated with Trevor Hemmings & its total cost is quite obviously excessive.

2880. 🇧🇸 Bahamas Commemorates Late Queen’s Centenary.

New Issues -

🇧🇸 Postal service of Bahamas -

3 March 2026 - Birth centenary of the late Queen Elizabeth II who was Quenof Bahamas - 4 stamps. The excellent dealer Spectre of Stamps has published an illustration of the 4 stamps as they appear on first day cover. Lithographed. Rating:- *****.

🇨🇦 Canada Post -

19 March 2026 - Sugar shacks - 2 sell-adhesive stamps issued in booklets of 6 (3 of each stamp). Designed by Paprika and Gerard DuBois and lithographed by Colour Innovations. Rating:- ***. 

🇮🇳 India Post -

13 February 2026 - Puppetry in India - 8 stamps issued in a miniature sheet containing 1 of each stamp. This issue was previously reported in Blog 2865 but but better illustrations of the miniature sheet and stamps are now depicted here. Rating:- ****.

🇭🇰 Hong Kong Post -

2 April 2026 - Old Master Q, second issue - 6 stamps and 3 miniature sheets (1 containing the set of six and the others a single stamp). Designed by Young HoI-chun and lithographed. Rating:-**.