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Amanda Jones started her first salon in a spare room in her house. It was a tough time. At the end of her maternity leave she discovered her former employer no longer needed her and, as hard as she looked, she couldn’t find anyone who was willing to ...

At the age of 12 Valerie Funderburk got up on stage at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee, and sang some of Patsy Cline’s greatest hits. Having made a name for herself at home in Bermuda, through her performances with her uncles, Norman and J...

Rikkai Scott weighed up the opportunities for BDblaq Dance – and saw the future in film. It’s a route that many companies are taking at the moment thanks to the limitations brought on by Covid-19. “Everyone is on the internet right now,” he said. “Ev...

It was a honeymoon for the record books. Vincent and Trish Dyer left on a two-week cruise to the South Pole just as the coronavirus pandemic hit a year ago. They then went through hell, stranded in the Pacific Ocean while countries refused to allow t...

Although Anna Fulton insists she “was never a natural athlete”, she never let it stop her from trying. It’s not uncommon to see her out on the water rowing with her husband Ian. In 2008 she climbed Mt Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, despite having had a hip...

Kei-Lara Dunigan knows a thing or two about packing groceries. She started at age 11 and stuck with it for about four years. In November she launched Bermuda Bagging Academy, a virtual course full of tips and tricks for inexperienced packers. Aside f...

Flo Hall intended to only be in Bermuda for six months but from her first glimpse of the island, she was hooked. She sailed into Hamilton Harbour on the Ocean Monarch in January 1960, having been hired as a nurse by King Edward VII Memorial Hospital....

Milton Darrell found out he had multiple sclerosis and went to Google to learn more. Then 31, everything that he read terrified him: a degenerative autoimmune disease, MS attacks the nerves in the brain and spinal cord and, in some people, causes mo...

Erwin Jones has the secret to a long and happy marriage: do whatever your wife tells you to do. It is a method he has tried and tested many times since June 3, 1950, the day he married his sweetheart, Winifred. “He has a habit of saying, you decide,”...

For a while, Akilia Darrell worried that her hard work would all go down the drain because of Covid-19. She was the sole employee when she opened Hair Am I in 2012; the salon had a staff of 11 when the government ordered the island to shelter in plac...