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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 ...

Joanna Jackson-Smith never expected her home-made granola to be an instant sell out. When Lindos first stocked her Oatbelievable Premium Granola, she thought it would take weeks to go. She was amazed when she got a call a few days later. “Lindos sai...

When Sarai Hines started teaching in England, the system bewildered her. From grading to student classification, everything was different. Then the 22-year-old realised she had an advantage ­— her own island culture. “We all forget what we have to b...

When Cha’von Clarke-Joell moved to England she thought her Bermuda passport qualified her for employment. It should have, but a government official at the nearest Jobcentre office saw things differently. After a year struggling to get the national i...

Lucille Woolridge wouldn’t go to the grocery store without a hat on her head. The 86-year-old is mad about hats and has a collection of more than 100, many of them made by her own hand out of natural materials. “The first hat I made was when I was 1...

When reggae artist Giles “Sir Dudley” Spurling wrote his new song Born Bermudian, he wanted to celebrate his culture. The first words out of his mouth when he started composing were: “Mi a born Bermudian...” And while he received positive feedback to...

When Milos Damjanovic took over the Tavern by the Sea in St George’s, he thought it would take a month or two to turn around. But when he opened the place up he found the plumbing was dying, the kitchen wasn’t functional and the furnishings hadn’t be...

As a youngster Jahroy “Kidd Clazzic” Richards often felt like it was himself against the world. He was bullied so badly in middle school because of his weight, he was home-schooled in high school. He found solace in music. “I liked to make little re...

Growing up in the 1950s Joan Friedman did everything with her twin. They wore matching outfits, had alliterative names — Joan and Jane, and were always the life of the party. “Twins were unusual in the 1950s,” the psychotherapist said. “We got a l...

There’s nothing fun about being called a geriatric. Golden-ager and senior citizen aren’t much better. Bill Storie and Robin Trimingham realised that when they started a retirement blog in 2013. “Maybe in some circumstances those words have a positi...