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On Pinterest, Donna Pink saw pictures of baskets made using royal palm and figured it would be easy to create her own. As it turned out, it was downright frustrating. For a start there was the challenge of actually finding the fronds. She once begged...

Three Bermudian sisters living in Britain are finalists in a food competition. Jameelah Brinson, Karima Gardner and Ahyaana Tiana Young will find out at the end of this month if they have won the Boxpark Croydon Food Business Competition. The top pri...

Jolene Bean spent almost half a century teaching and loved every minute but in the seven years since she retired, she has sometimes wondered if she should have been an artist instead. The 72-year-old has made jewellery, dolls for her nieces, and “a l...

At 14 Yanni Outerbridge was writing songs and thrilled to hear them play on local radio. In university however, his interest turned to marketing. “There comes a point where you have to be honest with yourself,” the 26-year-old said. “You ask yourself...

In middle school Trent Daniels longed to do a backflip on his dirt bike. He even tried to do it as a physics project. “My teacher said ‘no way!’,” the Belco machinist said. “She said it was too dangerous.” At 16, Mr Daniels got into motocross racing,...

Katherine Dale’s interest in natural medicine started with a pregnancy scare back in the 1990s. She went to a doctor who told her that based on her last period, she could not be pregnant. She was an adult, but knew very little about her own fertilit...

White Yardie never intended to become a stand-up comedy sensation. Ten years ago, he was a delivery driver in London. He was Bored and started playing around with a now defunct app called Keek that allowed users to upload videos. “I started doing s...

Eight years ago, former government minister Terry Lister retired from politics and real estate. Since then, the 68-year-old has spent much of his free time globetrotting solo. “When I graduated from college at 22, I had been to four countries — Bermu...

During her first year in the drama programme at New York University, Elena Menendez Sanchez brought her own unique cultural flair. As the daughter of a Bermudian, Jessica Lightbourne, and Cuban, Wilber Menendez Sanchez, she performed a Brazilian play...

In one of Shawn Simmons’ Instagram videos, a goat on a wall chats up a passing woman. The goat calls out in a thick Bermudian accent: “I know you’re working out and I’m working too, but I’m working on you. Ow …” Since Mr Simmons posted the video to...