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Growing up in the Philippines, Dustin Jose Francisco didn’t have many toys. His father struggled to raise a large family on a policeman’s salary. “When the first Transformers movie came out in 1986, I made my own robots out of cardboard,” said the 4...

Spray-painting a beach scene on canvas is challenging enough, imagine doing it on fur. Douglas and Pauline Parker of Pampered Pets learnt to do exactly that this week, under the instruction of renowned dog groomers Pammie Carmichael Hogg and Su Eld-...

Roberta Alvarez had to leave Bermuda to get the education she wanted for her dyslexic daughter. Olivia was six when doctors confirmed the difficulties she had with reading, spelling and writing were due to the learning disorder. Her parents hired a ...

Antonio Sausys was 20 when his mother died from a sudden stroke. The Uruguayan threw himself into work and study. Two years later he discovered a bony growth on his rib cage. “My sternum had actually popped out,” he said. “In essence, what my mind co...

Juli Campbell read her poetry to Dorothy Trimingham every Thursday evening, for 20 years. She always gave her a copy; she assumed her friend threw it away. When Mrs Trimingham died in June at 91, Ms Campbell learnt she’d kept every poem she ever gave...

A collapsing stage, an old cigarette machine and a few bits of rotting furniture were mostly all that was left inside the old Clayhouse Inn. None of it fazed filmmaker Milton Raposo. The music lover thought the once popular nightclub was the perfect...

Billy Gringley’s artwork was falling into a rut. He’d had a few solo shows but his work was taking a back seat to the maintenance and construction jobs he took to support his family. “Art takes time,” he said. “I need long stretches of time to devot...

What could be better than death by bacon? Bermuda’s bacon lovers are sticking by the breakfast staple despite the World Health Organization’s warning that it’s no better for you than asbestos or cigarettes. The nitrates in the processed meat are said...

Sabrina Heyns laboured for 36 hours, had two failed epidurals, general anaesthesia and an emergency caesarean section. So when nurses handed over her day-old daughter, Sophia, on October 24, Mrs Heyns didn’t feel able to cope. “I was afraid the baby ...

Bermudian paratrooper George Fisher walked 100 kilometres with two bullets in his legs during the Second World War. In September 1944, when he was 24 years old, he was shot and captured during the failed British Market Garden Operation in the Netherl...