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Having visited Bermuda for more than 30 years, Marjie Smith thought she knew the island. On moving here in April, however, the “wildlife” was a huge surprise. At breakfast one morning, Mrs Smith was shocked to see her oatmeal moving. “You know that l...

In early 2020 there were a lot of questions about Covid-19. How the disease spread and how it affected people were huge concerns for Lunette Castillo, who had a newborn baby and had just been hired as a medical consultant at Westmeath Residential and...

David “Dai” James’s first television commercial for Lindo’s grocers was meant to be a simple assignment. The floor manager had to lead a cow across a pasture, go into Dunkley’s Dairy and come back with a carton of milk. But nothing went as planned. “...

To take preliminary photographs of ship pilot Kristen Greene, Henry Ward hung over the side of Spirit of Bermuda tethered by a rope. He met Dennis Fagundo and John Pereira, the founders of D & J Construction, in a large, very dark warehouse. As one m...

Gary Fray was 20 when he joined the board of Warwick Workmen’s Club. Shy, and “not used to club life”, he recalls how he kept his mouth shut during their regular meetings around a long, wooden table. “The only things I said were ‘good evening’ and ‘g...

Darrell’s Island was once a critical hub for seaplanes crossing the Atlantic; today, it’s a sleepy picnic ground. For the past three years Bermuda Institute students have been reimagining it. Their 11ft by 3ft model has a seaplane museum, glamping ar...

There are those senior citizens who relish a slower pace of life. Leon “Sparky” Place isn’t one of them. For more than 60 years he’s helped to keep Bermuda’s gombey tradition alive. As a young child he got hooked by the colours, the music and the cro...

For a very long time, Hyman Bartley kept his drug habit a secret. Then married with four children, he went off to work at a hotel desalination plant each day. No one suspected a thing until he got to the point where he was unable to do his job withou...

For Roshie Trott, entering artwork in this year’s MindFrame PhotoVoice Exhibition was a major triumph. She has four pieces in the show of work by Mid-Atlantic Wellness clients on now at the Bermuda Society of Arts. Last year, she was in a very dark...

Bermudian Patrick Bean Jr is a guy with a great deal going on. He is living in Baltimore, Maryland, and is a housing specialist, an actor, a singer, and the proud father of six daughters. But 12 years ago, he was going nowhere fast. Born to an Amer...