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Hundreds of families in need will receive a Christmas turkey and hamper thanks to financial services firm. Hamilton-based PwC has donated $10,000 to the West End East End Central Community’s drive to provide festive cheer to families. PwC Bermuda ter...

Healthcare workers have gone without a Christmas party to provide turkeys to struggling families. Employees of Bermuda Healthcare Services (BHCS) handed out nearly 200 birds during their annual turkey giveaway on Saturday. This is the third year BHCS...

The Island Shop on Queen Street has taken the top spot in the Corporation of Hamilton’s Christmas Window Display Competition. The store’s owner, Barbara Finsness, collected her prize last night from the Corporation’s events and marketing coordinator,...

I stopped believing in the Easter bunny the first time I had to call Belco to get my kite out of the wires. I stopped believing in the Tooth Fairy when I saw mom paying Dr Chudleigh to extract one of my teeth. I stopped believing in Santa Claus when ...

Mary Doughty has been making Christmas puddings for about 75 years. For the past 50, she’s been giving them away to family and friends. The 90-year-old relies on a recipe she learned as a teenager. Her mother, Mary Paul, taught her how to make her fi...

Sacha Richardson has to be creative at Christmas. She’s on her own with three children — one of whom has cerebral palsy and is confined to a wheelchair. As a result, she’s realistic with them about what they can expect in the way of gifts. “To be ho...

Christmas might be the happiest season of all but it can also be the most stressful. There’s often no let-up at work, entertaining can be chaotic and as for buying Christmas presents, who has the time? The Royal Gazette managed to find some residents...

When Gabre and Deborah Swan describe their cassava pie as a labour of love, they aren’t kidding. They grow the cassava root themselves, organically. That involves tending it for two years before they can dig it up, peel it, grate it, and bake a vega...

Social media groups Art on the Town, Giving In Bermuda and Helping Out In Any Way (Bermuda) want to present 300 shoeboxes filled with goodies to elderly or infirm patients at the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital’s Extended Care Unit, Meals On Wheels...

Christmas pudding, cassava pie and eggnog. These are just some of the things that make up a Bermuda Christmas. But how is the holiday celebrated in other parts of the world? The Royal Gazette asked a handful of residents to share their unique tradi...

It is now 40 years since Mark Selley costumed himself as Santa for the Island’s disabled, and while the latest round of Christmas cheer was just as much fun as the first time, Mr Selley is ready to pass on the Father Christmas suit. “It started as a ...