Her position at the hospice for the terminally ill was advertised this week in The Royal Gazette as the first step in the process to find a replacement. She said as of this October she would have been a nurse for 40 years, eight of those being spent at Agape House.

"I have done it and need to move on now,'' she said. "I'm not actually retiring, I am moving on.'' She said her goal of the hospice becoming fully operational was nearly realised. Mrs. Soares estimated she had 15 working years left and wanted to use those in a different -- yet still useful -- fashion. Her intention is to take a course in clinical hypnotherapy -- "a very powerful tool'' -- and "help people with their baggage, needs and wishes so they can solve their problems and move on''.