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Getting whopped in a game of chess by your girlfriend’s little brother isn’t the kind of impression a man wants to make on a date. It proved the right motivation for Lyle Butterfield. After he sharpened his skills, he set up the Bermuda Chess League...

Talent, hard work and a can-do attitude won budding chef Shayne Trott the opportunity of a lifetime. The 21-year-old is now in New York with Marcus Samuelsson, who opens his new Harlem restaurant Streetbird Rotisserie this week. Mr Trott was invited ...

The notorious pirate Blackbeard once threatened to turn Bermuda into a pirate’s den. So claims historian William S Zuill in his new book, The Pirate Menace. “He was a rogue with a vivid personality,” said the 84-year-old. “In the height of battle, Bl...

BIFF is 18 years old, so bring on the romantic encounters, the mischief and the drama. Coming of age is the theme for this year’s Bermuda International Film Festival. “Many of the films explore the difficult divide between childhood and adulthood, a...

Tomorrow St John AME Church will host its Annual Men’s Day. There will be two services — one led by Pastor Kenneth Manders of Hamilton Seventh-day Adventist Church at 11am; another led by Rev H David Lambe of NTGOG-Faith Deliverance Centre at 4pm. S...

The impact of the AME Church on Bermuda has been profound, widespread, continuing and positive all the way, from the very beginning in the autumn of 1869 when three farsighted Christian men — Benjamin Burchall of St. George’s, William B. Jennings of ...

Gospel rap artist Mashundae Pearman believes in the power of prayer. The 29-year-old grappled with a life-threatening case of asthma as a child. If it weren’t for her grandmother Alma Smith’s prayers, she doesn’t think she’d be alive, let alone perf...

By the time this column appears the Mens and Ladies Pairs will have been decided last night at the Club at the conclusion of the second session. At the halfway point the Mens event seems to be a three horse race with Eddie Kyme- Alan Douglas and Davi...

Eron Woods is helping other students pay for college — and he isn’t even finished with his own education. The 19-year-old recently gave $500 to help a culinary student at his alma mater, the Bermuda College. Mr Woods graduated from the culinary art...

There are plenty of outfits and styles that look great in the workplace. On the flip side, there are just some things that just don’t work in a professional setting. The Royal Gazette asked people to tell us what three things they felt should never...