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Randy Carter got his first tattoo as a teenager, as a way to rebel against a difficult childhood. He had the words “Riddle My Fate” inked across his upper back. “‘Riddle my Fate’ was a mantra I developed when I was 14 years old by combining my love...

Like a lot of teens, Lilly DeCouto has spent the past 13 years working towards one goal — university. When Covid-19 hit, her final examinations were cancelled. “Two years of work have just gone out the window,” the 17-year-old Bermuda High School st...

If you’re looking to protect yourself against Covid-19, Richmond Simmons claims to be your man. With 27 recorded cases on the island, the naturopath says he has been getting “one to two calls per day” from people asking for his help. He takes the sa...

After missing the last flight out of Luanda, Quinton DeShield has hunkered down in Angola’s capital city. He moved there in January to set up his company, GFox Solutions. Two months later, flights in and out of the African nation were suspended; so f...

The coronavirus has caught most of humanity completely off guard. With more than 460,000 reported cases worldwide and just over 21,000 deaths, Covid-19 has become a pandemic of epic proportion. We are all experiencing this global catastrophe together...

There is only one way to start this week’s column and that is by congratulating Bill Pollett — first, for staging the first online tournament after the bridge club closure and, second, for winning it. Bill has set up the event in Funbridge and had an...

It’s been “an up and down year” for Emma Steele. Hers was a spur-of-the-moment submission to the Bermuda National Gallery’s 2020 Bermuda Biennial. She was thrilled when it was accepted, the news coming with the success of her work-in-progress show a...

I asked The Royal Gazette if they still wanted me to submit an article for today and they replied in the affirmative. One friend suggested that I write about the antiseptic character of alcohol and so on, but I feel that if I can cause a chuckle or ...

In the middle of a conference call Sophia Medeiros heard a thump from upstairs. Then her three-year-old son Santiago appeared, covered in lotion, his shirt missing and his pants soaking wet. The bank risk manager was working from home because of the...

As Betty Doyling puts it, she’s “adjusting to the new normal”. In her case, that means she’s stuck at home with her family for the next two weeks. The mandatory self-quarantine is the price of a quick trip to the UK to see her daughter Zavia perform...