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David Frith readily admits to being a loud mouth. He thinks that was one of the traits that made him a great St George’s Town Crier for 16 years. “People ask me what it takes to be a town crier all the time,” the 76 year old St David’s Island resid...

Ronnie Lopes and Bruce Fox sang Silent Night in four languages and released it in the middle of a pandemic – public response has been incredible. A live performance takes place at mass at St Patrick’s Church tomorrow night; the Christmas Eve service...

Starla Williams was oblivious to this year’s Christmas tree panic. She had always thought it strange that people bothered bringing them in and so, when she found her perfect alternative in an issue of Coastal Living magazine two years ago, she orde...

Julia Frith was performing in a lead role in a West End production. Her husband, Adrian Kawaley-Lathan, was enjoying his job with the Bertha Foundation, a social justice organisation also in London, England. When the pandemic threw up challenges the...

Once upon a time Disco 40 had the hippest boogie in town. The line outside stretched for blocks down Front Street. Inside, Harvey Wallbangers flowed and cool cats like John Lennon and Burt Reynolds made appearances. The doors are closed now, but fa...

If given a choice between a designer purse or a new camera lens, Susan Thomas would pick the lens every time. A girl can never have enough camera equipment, in her opinion. “In fact, I don’t own any designer purses,” she laughed. “But I own a lot of ...

It’s not easy eavesdropping on a dolphin. Marine mammal biologist Frants Jensen spent all Wednesday searching for dolphin chitchat. The ocean was rough, there was a torrential downpour and no sign of dolphins. “We probably travelled 90 miles,” said t...

When Nicky Gurret first took on the annual Sand Sculpture Competition she thought she’d do it for a year and then hand it over to someone new. It was a new concept at the time, the brainchild of the Institute of Bermuda Architects. Twenty-one years ...

Colin Duerden has always been fascinated by crime. As a child he loved his father Floyd “Happy” Duerden’s stories of policing Bermuda in the 1940s and 1950s. He thought of becoming a police officer himself, at one point, but his father said “no way!”...

Joe Bawduniak started dreaming about Bermuda the moment he saw the ad in Time. The magazine regularly carried testimonials from frequent visitors here in the 1970s. He resolved to find out if the island lived up to the hype. “It was everything I expe...