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“It’s a thrilling sport and an extreme sport,” said the Island’s youngest field hockey goalkeeper, 16-year-old Latonia Fray. “You have to have a lot of passion to play it. You have a lot of fun, too — and every year you can travel to different places...

For 18-year-old piano prodigy John Seymour, the path to fulfilling his musical dreams hasn’t come easy. “I have ambitions to do very great things in music,” he told The Royal Gazette. However, he admitted: “I’ve had educational struggles. Other than ...

May 16, 2012 Dear Sir, Young Achiever has once again highlighted Mr Tashel Bean in The Royal Gazette on Saturday, May 12, 2012 for his driving passion for acting and animation. Well done Mr Bean. You keep an extremely busy life. You write plays, you'...

With a driving passion for acting and animation, Berkeley Institute head boy and would-be film director Tashel Bean has an unconventional dream. “I want to be the first film director to win best picture at the Oscar Awards for an animated film,” he t...

For six-year-old Jayson Simons, the annual Agricultural Exhibition is one of the year's high points. His entries this year included vegetables, pumpkin bread, papier mache oranges and a miniature “garden” in a recycled container. Jayson submitted 24 ...

Children often get a trip overseas for the Easter holidays, but not many get to treat their parents to it. For 11-year-old Nasir Simmons, the break offered a chance to do exactly that: as the 2011 Spelldown champion, he took first place in the Island...

Eighteen-year-old Willis Steede plans to march twice in the Bermuda Day Parade next month: once in his school’s band, and again with the Warner Gombey Troupe. A long-serving member of the Bermuda Cadet Corps, Willis is accustomed to going the extra m...

A former watch leader with the Bermuda Sloop Foundation has been hailed by the charity as a young man who “found the leader in himself”. Reid Perinchief, 21, struggled so much with school that he withdrew from the Berkeley Institute at the age of 17....

Come this summer, Candace Furbert might be singing on a London stage as part of the award-winning musical ‘The Lion King’. The 20-year-old has auditioned twice for a role in the world-famous show and will hear in the next couple of months whether or ...

Raised in the tight-knit neighbourhoods around Parsons Road, award-winning teen performer DeAzha Chambers is proud of her community. She also uses her stage gifts to give voice to its social issues. As the winner of youth charity Teen Service’s annua...

Not many students can say they take on extra examinations just for entertainment. For Saltus head boy Nick Barton, who just got an A for a self-imposed A-level maths exam, the additional studies are exactly that. Maths prodigies often express interes...