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If you’re reading this, you probably have a teacher to thank. When I was five years old I dreaded the arrival of the reading teacher, Lorna Andersen. Since I’d started school a few months late, I needed extra help. Mrs Andersen terrified me, as she b...

What woman wouldn’t want to drop three dress sizes in a flash? Tannel Lambe knows the secret. It’s not a diet, but a garment called the Ardyss Body Magic Shaper. It’s an all-over body sleeve that helps to tuck in the stomach, pull up the bum and st...

Karen Dyer was a little bit reluctant when PALS asked her to come on board as executive director. She’d just started a doctoral degree, which she hoped would support the work she was doing as a nurse, bereavement counsellor and art therapist. Then sh...

Denaye Hinds frequently visits exclusive Caribbean resorts but relaxing is the last thing on her mind. She’s there to check out their work. The Caribbean Journal just named the 30-year-old Bermudian the third most influential person in the Caribbean...

Kathy-Ann Swan was devastated the first time she lost a patient. She was 23 and about a year into her nursing career. “I’d only talked to the patient a few minutes before on my rounds and he was comfortable,” she said. “He wasn’t elderly at all which...

Jan Quinn has made everything from jewellery to sweaters and now she’s crafting writers. For the past six months she’s been helping would-be authors through a creative writing course at the Bermuda Musical and Dramatic Society. Already she’s seeing s...

A young chef has turned to crowdfunding to cook up a second chance in the restaurant business. Antonio Belvedere ran Peppino’s Catering and Personal Chef Service out of the Bermuda College cafeteria for a little more than a year. When the restaurant ...

You might not have heard of a friendly society, but if you’ve ever celebrated Cup Match you’ve experienced their work. Cup Match began as a cricket game between friendly societies to celebrate emancipation in 1834. Retired Bermuda College science lec...

Hard work pays off. It’s a lesson recently learnt by Northlands Primary students. Almost every hand went up when information technology teacher Mary-Beth Aitken asked for volunteers for a video competition. Once they found out how much work was invol...

Judy Smith-Lee has had a lot to complain about in the past three years. She’s had two bouts of breast cancer, and lost her 35-year-old daughter, Jurina Smith, in a car accident. Rather than turning inward, the senior citizen found peace by maintainin...