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Trying to find a job at 71 isn’t easy. Richard Powell got creative. No-one would hire him after he and his wife moved back to the Island two years ago after several years living in the US. The former taxi driver and photographer could have returned t...

At the airport in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Aliea Kamara could not hug her friends goodbye or even shake their hands. It was only then that the reality of the Ebola epidemic hit home, despite having been there for several months supervising the buildin...

Get writing.....the annual short story competition at The Royal Gazette is underway. The Royal Gazette’s Christmas Short Story Contest has been running now for over a half century; generations of local writers have submitted stories. Now it’s your tu...

That Paris is referred to as the City of Light is lost on Parisians — they all wear black. It’s something that struck Bermudian Tiffany Smith when she moved to the city three years ago. Her view hasn’t changed since. Everyone here wears black, day an...

What better way to celebrate the Bermuda Festival’s 40th anniversary than with rubies. Artist Alexandra Mosher is selling a special butterfly pin containing a single ruby to mark the event. “The butterfly symbolises its metamorphosis to embrace the ...

Aida was an award-winning Broadway hit. Why not bring it to Bermuda? Berkeley Institute students are hoping to replicate that success when they perform Aida next month — the school’s first musical in several years. Set mostly in Ancient Egypt, it cen...

What better way to reflect Bermuda’s charm, than with an actual charm? Adrienne Cotterill thought it was a great idea and created a line of lockets she dubbed Bermuda Charm. Each contains Bermuda beach sand and a tiny charm such as a crab, turtle or...

Some people see feral roosters as pests, not Kocchakorn Marchand. A white rooster is the symbol of her home city of Lampang, Thailand. One sits on the city seal, and images of the birds are seen everywhere, particularly in temples. They’re now also t...

Some people take photos of their food the way other people snap their babies. They then post them on Facebook, certain that everyone else wants to see the cupcakes or lobster they made or the supreme tuna sandwich they brought in for lunch. Finally t...