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When Shirley Brangman whispers “hold me tight” to her dance partner, she means it. She’s 92, sometimes her knees buckle. “I’ve been dancing for most of my life,” she said. “I first learnt to dance standing on my father’s feet at someone’s wedding. “I...

Sometimes film-maker Lara Smith has to lie in the dirt under blazing sun to get the perfect shot. There is also heavy equipment to lug and long hours of editing at the end of the day. “It’s a job that takes a lot of patience,” said Ms Smith, owner of...

Shawn Ming never wanted to become a cook. He rebelled against the prospect from an early age, despite urgings from his father Fred, a popular chef who taught culinary arts at the Bermuda College. “I definitely did not want to take after my father,” t...

As a teenager in the 1970s, Stephen DeCosta thought there was nothing cooler than cruising on his moped. Some might say he never grew up. The 51-year-old is still passionate about mopeds and has been collecting vintage bikes for the past 20 years. A ...

Carolyn Soares didn’t know how lucky she was until she went to South Africa. She taught English to 10-year-olds without computers or sufficient textbooks in Mpumalanga, eastern South Africa. Huge numbers of children were jammed into tiny classrooms i...

Edward “Donnell” Ivy’s hips started failing him when he was 9. By the time he reached university, he would often suffer terrible pain that would put him in hospital for weeks. Then the crisis hit. The then 23-year-old was on duty as a resident paedia...

It’s been 18 years since Edward Durham retired, but the former football coach has not been forgotten. He trained members of the Pembroke Hamilton Club for five years. According to the 80-year-old, the instruction he gave wasn’t limited to the footba...

Clinark Dill still remembers the day he got his first Jackson 5 album. It was 1971 and he was five years old. He never thought he’d get the chance to chat with the famous brothers 44 years later. “I got to meet them earlier this month when they per...

Nobody turned up to hear Phil Morrison sing at his first gig decades ago. He was then in his 20s, the frontman for local band Scarfish. “Only the sound guy came, although he did like our music,” he recalled. “The band did get popular, but when you wr...

Haitian teenager Jean Berry has trouble sleeping. His home in Port-au-Prince has no gate and crime is rife. The only time he feels truly safe is at his school, run by American charity HaitiChildren. He is learning maths and French, subjects which he ...