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Somewhere over Greenland John Tomlinson knew he’d made a horrible mistake. The air flowing into his vintage Cessna was below zero, and he’d only brought a fleece jacket for the 6,000-mile journey to Bermuda. “When I first left Bermuda to pick up the ...

Heroes, they have to be sure, they have to be soon and they have to be larger than life. At least they do according to Bonnie Tyler’s song Holding Out for a Hero. In honour of Heroes Day on Monday, The Royal Gazette asked people: what do you need fro...

A Bermudian teen who dreams of delivering babies has won a $5,000 fraternity scholarship. Zaren Bennett, 17, of The Bermuda Institute won Alpha Phi Alpha’s Beautillion on Sunday at the Ruth Seaton James Centre for the Performing Arts. “I want to be a...

Say cheese, but please don’t smile. That’s what Debra Friedman told teens photographed for her exhibition, ‘Twelve to Twenty: Photographing Teenage Bermuda’. The show opens tomorrow at the Masterworks Gallery in Paget. “You’ll notice nobody is smilin...

“I am going to die.” That was Amani Flood’s first thought when she received a cancer diagnosis. “I fell ill one day and thought I had the flu,” she said. “It turned out to be something much more serious — non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a type of cancer orig...

Into every life a little rain must fall, and Andre Raine has had his share. The Bermudian ornithologist works in the mountains of Kauai, Hawaii, the wettest place on earth. “I get wet a lot,” said Dr Raine. “Rainstorms come really often. We have to b...

A few years ago Shayne Trott was using an iron to cook his food. His stovetop was broken and he was a hungry student. The iron seemed the obvious solution. “We had a small stove but it broke, so we used a clothes iron to make grill cheese sandwiches...

Who is the most charming beau in Bermuda? The Island will find out on Sunday at the Alpha Beautillion hosted by the Bermuda Chapter of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. The six-month beautillion programme polishes up young men, ages 16 to 18, through w...

After months searching for a job, Rajai Denbrook started cursing his drama degree. The 24-year-old was newly married and unemployed. He sent out tons of job applications, but there were few drama jobs available. Still, he was certain a job would com...

People’s eyes sometimes glaze over when Nick Bates talks about climate change. The BIOS oceanographer has had to resort to a different medium to get his message across — books. Dr Bates will launch his first novel At The Sharp End of Lightning, tomor...