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During the Second World War, Bermudian pilot Robert Outerbridge went around the world on many dangerous missions – rescuing the injured, transporting VIPs and dropping much needed supplies over famished regions.
As part of the prestigious Royal Air F...
DATE: Dec 07, 2022
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Jessie Moniz Hardy
Bermudian Nadia Laws has become a night owl ever since moving to Bali four months ago.
The Indonesian nation is 12 hours ahead of Bermuda and she has to keep pace with the clients of her communications firm, Media Maven.
“Night is day and day is nigh...
DATE: Nov 29, 2022
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Jessie Moniz Hardy
In early 2020 there were a lot of questions about Covid-19.
How the disease spread and how it affected people were huge concerns for Lunette Castillo, who had a newborn baby and had just been hired as a medical consultant at Westmeath Residential and...
DATE: Nov 15, 2022
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Jessie Moniz Hardy
David “Dai” James’s first television commercial for Lindo’s grocers was meant to be a simple assignment.
The floor manager had to lead a cow across a pasture, go into Dunkley’s Dairy and come back with a carton of milk.
But nothing went as planned.
“...
DATE: Nov 09, 2022
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Jessie Moniz Hardy
Gary Fray was 20 when he joined the board of Warwick Workmen’s Club.
Shy, and “not used to club life”, he recalls how he kept his mouth shut during their regular meetings around a long, wooden table.
“The only things I said were ‘good evening’ and ‘g...
DATE: Nov 02, 2022
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Jessie Moniz Hardy
Darrell’s Island was once a critical hub for seaplanes crossing the Atlantic; today, it’s a sleepy picnic ground.
For the past three years Bermuda Institute students have been reimagining it.
Their 11ft by 3ft model has a seaplane museum, glamping ar...
DATE: Oct 25, 2022
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Jessie Moniz Hardy
There are those senior citizens who relish a slower pace of life.
Leon “Sparky” Place isn’t one of them.
For more than 60 years he’s helped to keep Bermuda’s gombey tradition alive. As a young child he got hooked by the colours, the music and the cro...
DATE: Oct 19, 2022
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Jessie Moniz Hardy
One of the highlights of the year for Gaëlle Roth is the Bermuda Turtle Project’s annual turtle round-up.
For two-weeks every August, D Roth, director of the project, scientists and conservation students, come together to capture, weigh, measure, exa...
DATE: Oct 13, 2022
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Jessie Moniz Hardy
As a teenager, Sharon Nannini loved sneaking into her older sister Meredith’s clothes closet.
“She was a seamstress and she made beautiful things,” the 75-year-old remembered. “I used to borrow them all the time and put them back before she got home....
DATE: Oct 12, 2022
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Jessie Moniz Hardy
For years, Lynnette Davis was known as “the fluoride lady”.
Back in the 1970s she had helped the health department launch a dental programme for children.
She drove around the island in a van, dispensing fluoride tablets to students.
“The children di...
DATE: Oct 05, 2022
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Jessie Moniz Hardy