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“This, explained the angel, is hell. The people do not love each other. They only want to feed themselves.” David Mitchell, Ghostwritten. This week I share with you a brief summary of the allegory of the long spoons in which the residents of both he...

When people ask me where I get my motivation, I laugh. It’s not from famous leaders or celebrities, it comes from those around me. My motivation comes from seeing someone attempting something deeply challenging or heartbreakingly difficult, someone t...

That she is a deserving golden girl, with stamina and strength to boot, we all know. That she is a fierce competitor who is also fiercely attached to her Bermuda roots, this we have come to know too. Less known, less feted but still no small feat, Fl...

Every morning Renee DeSilva likes to do her “thumps and bumps”. Planks, push-ups, walks and weights – the 93-year-old does them all because if she didn’t she “would be stiff". "The exercises loosen everything up,” she explained. At 85 she suffered f...

Sometimes philanthropy can be a bit like the chicken and the egg: do you start with a desire to support a specific issue in the community – or the unsupported need that must be addressed if our community is to thrive? One corporation based in Bermuda...

Scarlett Smale trailed behind as her classmates learnt how to read in Primary Two. Her mother, Heather, had an inkling of what the problem might be. Scarlett’s father, Nick, and her grandfather Richard Kitson are dyslexic; her great uncle, Kirk Kits...

There are obvious benefits to being a host to the Butterfield Bermuda Championship. The bragging rights from hosting a PGA Tour event, the uplift for tourism, and significant economic impact in a time when it is much needed. However, every year, Ber...

Since writing about the concept of heaven on earth in my column a couple of weeks ago I have discovered that there is a whole network of people all over the globe who also subscribe to this school of thought. Thanks to the tireless work of Martin Rut...

If you’ve ever been unclear about how community philanthropy works, consider the Marshalls’ football fund. Former senator Charles Marshall, MBE, JP, is now in his eighties. He left school at the age of 16 and became an apprentice at the Bermuda Elect...

Geoff Tomlinson has not lived in Bermuda since 1975 but still reads The Royal Gazette every day and regularly checks out the weather on the Dockyard webcam. He describes his six years here as magical. He was teaching in Cambridgeshire, England in the...