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Some coaches shy away from “ankle biters”. Not Cal Simons. The 60-year-old Bermuda Pacers Track Club coach adores working with young children. “They’re a lot of fun,” he said. “Sometimes [six-, seven- and eight-year-olds] can be very playful. You hav...

Leon James never imagined he’d become a school principal. As a child, he didn’t see the point of education; once he finished primary school, he quit. “I was a big boy and wanted to go out and work,” the 77-year-old said. His parents, Aileen and Arth...

Ronald Lightbourne’s friends in Jamaica would scare him with ghost stories as a child. The tales were full of supernatural beings they called “duppies”, each one more terrifying than the next. The 69-year-old never forgot them. He’s infused the stori...

Billy Byron pulled out his guitar, strummed a few chords from Yellow Bird and the dementia patients came to life. He couldn’t believe it. He’d played music for most of his life but had never before witnessed its power to heal. “The patients just cam...

Curtis Perry celebrated his 45th birthday in a low-key way: brunch, and time with the family. He and his wife Rebecca have made every day count this year. The Argus Optical optometrist was told in January that he had an aggressive and rare form of ca...

Lee-Ann Liles’s first book might be 11 years behind schedule, but she’s okay with that. Better late than never. The 41-year-old librarian has just released Aerie Short Stories , a compilation of non-fiction work she’s written over the last 15 years. ...

Foraging for supper is no easy task in Bermuda. Muse’s Enworth Davis found that out the hard way. The Restaurant Week People’s Choice winner needed two pairs of thick gloves to make dessert. His crème brûlée called for prickly pear cactus. “It was ...

One of Brendan Huttick’s fondest childhood memories is getting a dehydrator for Christmas. He was eight, and dreamed of making smoked meat. “I was one of those odd children,” he laughed. “I lived in Pennsylvania at the time. My neighbour had just ru...

The Syrian refugee walked across the Jordanian border, reached into her pocket and held up a car key. It took place in the briefest of moments but it left a big impression on Tara Sutton, an award-winning journalist and photographer whose work has ta...

Alison Soares felt a tremendous sense of relief when her mother was admitted to Agape House. Hillary Soares was in the final stages of Lou Gehrig’s disease. She struggled to breathe, had a feeding tube and couldn’t move. The irony was that the 70-yea...