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In the third of a series of profiles to mark Nurses Month, Cecille Snaith-Simmons tells the story of Phyllis Leonie Harford and her drive to be accepted by Bermuda

In the second of a series of profiles to mark Nurses Month, Cecille Snaith-Simmons tells the story of Edward Dyer, Bermuda’s first male nurse Edward Dyer was one of seven children born to Kathlyn Dyer and Leslie Dyer, a well-respected electrical...

In the first of a series of profiles to mark Nurses Month, Cecille Snaith-Simmons tells the story of Bermudian nurse Lorraine Lauretta Dyer-Bizek SRN, SCM, QN, HV, who braved war and moving to a new country to become the first Bermudian Queen’s N...

My childhood memories of Easter are filled with kite-flying on Good Friday, going to Sunday school and Easter dinner with my grandparents. There were also the feminine activities revolving around the purchase of a new hat, white shoes and hair ribbon...

West End School is set on a slight plateau overlooking Scott’s Hill Road. Its old-world architecture is often taken for granted and few ever wonder who the builders were. This school building was completed in 1944 after many years of the Somerset com...

In the mid-1920s, St George’s businessman Henry E.A. Dowling, William Cooper MCP, W.R. Perinchief, Lorrie Williams and others met to discuss concerns regarding the quality of education afforded the children of St George’s. They approached C.G. Gilber...

The late Rosalind Robinson, a respected, retired school principal and the wife of the late Kenneth Robinson, PhD, likened the formation of the Bermuda Union of Teachers in February 1919 to “a phoenix rising from the ashes”. The late Adele Tucker, one...

Lillian Minors, my godmother, has always described herself as a “mover and a shaker”. Her early years were as busy and industrious as her later years, and her skills as a businesswoman were identified very early in life. Lily, as she was fondly known...

Christmas traditions have always fascinated me and for this simple reason, more than 40 years ago, I began to ask older relatives and family friends the question – how did your family prepare for Christmas? The recollections that I am writing about t...

The Royal Gazette of October 21, 2021, posted an aerial view of a building on Happy Valley Road. The headline read, “Interest in disused building attracts interest from developers”. It was further described as the former Prison Service Headquart...