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Like a true Angeleno, Zia Simmons has stars in her eyes. Acting, modelling and fashion are on her radar and she has made inroads towards a career in all three. “I went to fashion school,” said Ms Simmons, whose father, Ondray, left Bermuda for Califo...

Sharon Burrows loves to put on a show. As Bermuda sheltered in place over Easter she dressed up as a bunny, got on her roof and waved to the people in her neighbourhood. Her passion, however, is carnival. Since she was introduced to the festival deca...

Patricia Mallory really loves to bowl. Twice a week she is at Warwick Lanes with the Continental League. At home she keeps three balls: one for a dry lane, another for an oily surface and another to knock down spares. Frustrated when Covid-19 closed...

Kay Wilson Stallings had her career mapped out by the age of 10. She wanted a job in television, children’s television specifically. It’s how she ended up at Sesame Workshop, the home of Big Bird, Elmo, Abby Cadabby and their many muppet pals. “Toda...

At 16, Pam Jones had an attitude that was obvious to everyone at the job she had been assigned through a high school day release programme. She might have continued that way for ever were it not for Sheila Burrows. The 84-year-old, who was then the s...

On becoming a doctor, Rachel Daly was immediately thrown in at the deep end, treating patients with Covid-19 in Britain. She put in the time at Russells Hall Hospital just outside Birmingham, England, having been involved in a work-study programme th...

Ondray Simmons is usually on his way to work when Good Morning America hits the airwaves. Yesterday, however, he was glued to the ABC show, watching his teenage daughters, Maliah, Amia and Ayziah, on it. “My father wanted to have a watch party, but ...

Akilah Swan’s motto had always been “go big or go home”. Fifteen years into her architecture and design career, however, she was not feeling particularly daring. A chief concern was that clients were shuffled through the system too quickly to really...

A Portuguese charity is appealing for help to make its dream of a cultural centre a reality. Casa dos Açores da Bermuda had hoped its fundraisers would pay for the extensive renovations needed to open the doors of the old Sea Cadets’ building at Admi...

Interested in eating out again but not sure how safe it is? The Hamilton Princess & Beach Club invited this reporter to a meal at the hotel’s Crown & Anchor Terrace to see what dining out was like in the Covid-19 era. “We know some people have been n...