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I have been a member of Youth Parliament since the start of the 2014 School year and the experience has been extremely enriching and empowering. As a former member of the school Debate Team, the Human Rights Friendly School Youth Committee and a curr...

Chefanices Williams, 16, attends The Berkeley Institute. Chefanices approached Young Observer to help promote a book she has written called A Place Without Bullies. What made you sit down to write A Place Without Bullies? Bullying is a major issue t...

Move over Muppets, Bermuda puppets have come to town. Dennis Joaquin shows up at a nursery school and toddlers’ faces light up. It’s not him they’re excited to see, it’s the friend he carries on his hand. Mr Joaquin and artist Kendra Earls created D...

Looking to take your spiritual life to new heights in 2015? A mission trip to Haiti could help with that. Linda Adderley (née Rego), whose family is behind Feed My Lambs Ministry, is appealing for volunteers to help with an important project — repl...

Edmeiko Butterfield is living proof of what can happen when God transforms your life. As a young person he struggled with his grades and believed he was “dumb”. It got so bad, he was told he wouldn’t graduate from high school unless he repeated a ye...

The Royal Gazette’s Christmas Short Story Contest has been running now for over half a century. Through the years writers of all ages have sent in their stories so that now the contest is without a doubt a great tradition. In fact a number of writer...

A fundraiser has been started for the family of a Bermudian man who died suddenly in the US. Luis DaPonte Jr died of a brain aneurysm in March. He was 51. The former Cable & Wireless employee left the Island in 1991 but frequently returned to visit h...

We have just concluded a really busy year of performances at BHS. Our teacher, Dr Derek Tully, keeps telling us that “we have the busiest performance programme on the Island” and that is true — thanks to him! At Halloween, dressed as witches and gobl...