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This columnist, in many decades of writing hundreds of features, can count on one hand the number of times one was started with “I”. One exception, which appeared in the Mid-Ocean News on August 14, 2000, related to my having been awarded an MBE. I ...

Another column starts by announcing the departure of a valuable and popular Bridge Club member as Annelies Scheland is moving to England after a long association with the club. She signs off on a real high after her great success in the Worldwide Pai...

One of the questions that I am most frequently asked is, why do bottles of wine vary so much in price? Among the many answers is the output of an acre of vineyard. It takes 600 to 800 grapes to make one bottle of wine. One tonne will give you about 6...

Our twenties are often sprinkled with bad dates, hard life lessons and (hopefully occasional) fashion mistakes. If you learnt the hard way not to throw your favourite dry-clean-only top into the dryer, buy shoes that kill your feet or overpay for na...

Adisak Saephoo claims his Pad Thai is the best on the Island. The L’Oriental chef is so confident, he is willing to do a blind taste-off and have the public decide. It is not an empty offer. The 46-year-old knows a thing or two about food from his na...

Campers from the Youth Camera Action photography summer programme and Dany Pen, education and communication officer for the Bermuda National Gallery, joined us at The Royal Gazette for a tour of the press last week. Lilly DeCouto, 13, said that “the ...

Otis Nolan did not think he was doing anything extraordinary when he signed up to become a Mirrors volunteer. So it came as a shock when the charity presented him with its Outstanding Committed Partner Award. The City of Hamilton employee never mis...

Wallace Lee knew he didn’t stand a chance at winning the online modelling competition, but he was desperate for publicity. He had been writing novels for years, the costs associated with self-publishing were high — and his books were not selling. Th...

This year Bermuda Overseas Missions partnered with Habitat for Humanity to build houses in Malawi. Three Warwick Academy students — Kayleb Butterfield, Celine Morton and Shayla Smith — along with 29 other team members built houses in Muhiyo, which i...

Raguel Dill was 13 when he learnt he was a foster child. The revelation shook his world to its core. “I became unhappy and angry at my parents most of the time,” the 17-year-old said. “I had gone all that time convinced they were my real parents an...