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Bothered by all the glass at a nature reserve in Sandys, Clyde Bassett got to work. He later received a call thanking him for his efforts, but asking him to stop – as people tried to move the 12 blue bags he had filled and left by the roadside, glass...

There is a saying in Trinidad: when steel talks, everybody listens. Peter Harris has had an audience for many years. The Trinidadian was 19 when he played the steel pans for the first time. “It was really beautiful,” he said, explaining how he was wa...

As the property caretaker of Manor House, Warren Darrell has 13 acres to groom and 58 condominiums to oversee, but his hardest job is changing a single lightbulb. The lightbulb sits in the crown at the top of the ornate tower across from the develo...

On her 88th birthday, Betty Smith woke to messages on Facebook and WhatsApp. By the end of May 3 she’d received more than 200 phone calls, the most distant came from an old family friend living in South Korea. Although out enjoying the day with her d...

Just in time for boating season, Sail Bermuda has a new catamaran. Caleb and Marilyn Zuill only wish she hadn’t taken such a roundabout route. The couple bought Elusive in Grenada in November, 2019. Their idea was to use her to expand their boat char...

Regulars on the No 2 bus out of Hamilton will likely remember Lynette Waldron. For more than 20 years she was a favourite with Paget Primary School and Gilbert Institute students especially, making them cookies every week, dressing in costume and ens...

In 1979 Christine Atcheson’s life was a mess. She had been on the island for three years. Her husband had abandoned her and returned to the UK; she had a toddler to raise on her own. In order to deal, she “went full-on into recreational drugs and al...

As a child, Fiona Hatfield’s family dubbed her “little Mary Sunshine”. “I was always happy, chatty and having fun,” the 71-year-old said. “That has always been the nature of my beast, from the get-go.” Her sunny disposition has served her well durin...

When Betsey Mowbray moved to Bermuda in 1976 she was fascinated by morning glories. They reminded her of her mother back in Montreal, Quebec. Frances McKindsey would plant a morning glory vine in the spring and would “be so excited” when the first f...

For 30 years due to diabetes, Venita Smith battled poor vision. And then came the day she suddenly couldn’t see anything at all. An ophthalmologist sent her home with some eye drops and promised her sight would soon return. When it didn’t a few month...