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When Malachi Symonds launched Paddle Popped Popcorn in 2014, he included little comic strips in the bag to interest younger customers. The technique worked. Children loved the comic entitled The Story of Paddle Popped. But updates came too slowly, ...

People came out of the woodwork when Joy T Barnum started singing at the St Georges Christmas Shop N Stroll on Sunday afternoon. Passers-by stopped in their tracks to listen to her medley of Christmas songs. Even Santa Claus showed up. But halfway th...

When Barbara Petty went to Mount Saint Agnes Academy she so admired the nuns who taught at that time, she wanted to be one herself. “I don’t think I was even 16 when I told my parents,” the 82 year old remembered. “I think a lot of girls my age want...

When Bermudian Thomas MacDonald published his memoir earlier this year, he was so excited he did not want to wait more than a week to receive his free author’s copy. Instead, he went to Amazon and paid for a copy of his own book, Here Is What Happene...

At 80, Joan Hollis easily recalls a time when she was one of the world’s top bowlers. In the 1980s she beat everyone she played in tournaments in the United States and Europe. Back home in Bermuda she received a hero’s welcome. People lined the stree...

Callum Smith had given himself until 25 to see if he could make it in the music industry. On June 15, the day before he hit the milestone, he signed a contract with Empire, an independent label with a focus on hip hop; Snoop Dogg, 50 Cent and Iggy A...

Every morning Renee DeSilva likes to do her “thumps and bumps”. Planks, push-ups, walks and weights – the 93-year-old does them all because if she didn’t she “would be stiff". "The exercises loosen everything up,” she explained. At 85 she suffered f...

Scarlett Smale trailed behind as her classmates learnt how to read in Primary Two. Her mother, Heather, had an inkling of what the problem might be. Scarlett’s father, Nick, and her grandfather Richard Kitson are dyslexic; her great uncle, Kirk Kits...

Geoff Tomlinson has not lived in Bermuda since 1975 but still reads The Royal Gazette every day and regularly checks out the weather on the Dockyard webcam. He describes his six years here as magical. He was teaching in Cambridgeshire, England in the...

At 22 Bruce Swan found out he had diabetes and, instead of dealing with the diagnosis, set it aside. He was in law school at the time and focused on his studies. Today, he wishes he had been more concerned about his health. Last year while walking ou...