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Dancer Rikkai Scott knew he had all the right moves for an audition in Amsterdam. Unfortunately, he did not have money to travel. The 25-year-old was just finishing up a dance degree at the London Contemporary Dance School in the UK. “Students genera...

Ginny Ferson’s knees were knocking. A busy ambassador had asked her to fill in for him at a meeting and it was only once she got there she discovered she had to make a speech. It was 1994 and she was second secretary at the Luxembourg British Embass...

The bank officer had never handled a loan for a salad bowl before. Historian John Cox was insistent that he had to have it. “It was an 18th-century English salad bowl,” he said. “It cost me $3,500 and it took me a year to pay off. That was 1987. It w...

If you have a dear old dad, count yourself lucky. During an informal poll on the streets of Hamilton, The Royal Gazette struggled to find people who were happy with their fathers. One person described their dad as “an old fart”. A young girl we appr...

Astronaut Scott Carpenter survived orbiting the earth but was almost done in by Bermuda’s roads. He was visiting Bermuda in 1964 as part of a revolutionary ocean experiment by the US Navy. Unfortunately for him, he wiped out on his moped and the inju...

Kalaeb Tannock was certain he’d join the family business after high school. He was bored with his studies and saw plumbing as his only real career prospect. And then he learnt about Raleigh International. The global organisation helps empower youth w...

The talk of the Island this weekend? Jason “D’General” Sukdeo and his four-day party. It kicked off with a massive turnout on Front Street on Friday when soca bands played before a crowd of about 5,000. The 35-year-old DJ, who got his nickname becaus...

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...