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The old saying “if you love what you do, you will never work a day in your life” has certainly proved true for Joan Talbot. She spent 67 years with Front Street clothing store Calypso, and never felt like she was working. “I was happy and I loved me...

At the end of each day, art teacher Richelle Richards has often collected a box of lost items belonging to children — water bottles, sneakers, lunch bags. She has seen some middle-school students go home without shoes. “How do they not know they don...

Teamwork is equally as important as physical strength. That may just have been the biggest lesson learnt by a group of teenagers who spent three days on Spirit of Bermuda working towards the Silver level of the Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award...

Laid off by the Fairmont Southampton in March, Jackson Chandranathan took it as an opportunity to help people less fortunate then himself. Throughout the lockdown period, for five days a week, the chef made his way to the kitchen at the Salvation Arm...

Carol Carvalho loves to shop but has a rule: for every item that she buys, another has to go. The monthly car boot sale at Peace Lutheran Church in Paget is where she drops many of them off. “I hate clutter,” said the 75-year-old, who has organised ...

As the sun set and the cockroaches swarmed, Eva O’Connor wondered if she had made the right choice. She was spending the night in the middle of a field in Dockyard, having signed up for a two-week camp with Raleigh International called I Am Brave. “W...

At 79, Marjorie Correia decided to bite the bullet and head to Transport Control Department to get a licence to drive a truck. She was tired of having to transport things that were way too big to fit in her car. “I got it so that if I wanted somethin...

Robyn Bardgett thought knitting would be a breeze. She already knew how to crochet and she figured a book would teach her the rest. She soon found herself in a tangle. “This was in 2004 or 2005 before YouTube was really a thing,” she said. “Trying ...

From an early age, Lorraine Beasley knew she wanted to be a nurse. By the time she was 17 she was already in training at King’s College Hospital in London, England. She decided to specialise in orthopaedics at the suggestion of William Eldon Tucker, ...

Just by putting one foot in front of the other, Marilyn Steede raised $200,000 for local charities. She did it over 16 years, starting in 2003. For one day each year, she would walk from one end of the island to the other, putting in many miles. Alth...