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Like a lot of Bermudians, Tcherari Nu Kamara does not swim before May 24. On Sunday, however, she has pledged to brave the waters of John Smith’s Bay to raise $50,000 for a cause that’s dear to her heart: a school her grandmother started two years ag...

Lucy Attride-Stirling has never been afraid to speak her mind. Amnesty International Bermuda was a perfect fit for the 78-year-old. She worked with the charity for 26 years, writing thousands of letters to governments in protest of human rights abuse...

Flying a drone looks easy, until you actually try it. Llewellyn Simons likes to say he has seven of the aerial vehicles — plus a submarine. The “submarine” is actually a $1,500 drone he lost a few months ago while using it to film from a boat in the...

In the 25 years Edward Williams worked as a prison officer he earned a reputation for caring, but also for being firm. He’s especially proud to have helped many young men turn their lives around. “People come up to me, literally, all the time,” said ...

At 15, Letitia Washington started writing “steamy” romance novels. Although the stories were mainly for her friends’ entertainment, she used a pen name, Brooklyn Knight, to give them a legitimate ring. “Everyone knew it was me,” she said. It was sill...

Sixty years into their marriage, George and Helen Burt love a good game of verbal ping-pong. “The reason we’ve been married so long is that no one else would put up with him,” Mrs Burt joked. Mr Burt quickly shot back: “That’s because no one else cou...

The odds were against Dakota Tucker when she tried out for the Bermuda Teen Idol competition. She was a newcomer and had no formal vocal training. Even worse, she was up against the previous year’s runners-up, McKenzie Hassell and Emanuel Humphrey. I...

At 88, Lois Johnson has earned a reputation as a troublemaker. It’s because she helps too much. At every one of her many senior citizens’ meetings she’s there preparing tea or lunch — having been told it’s someone else’s responsibility. “I’m a very ...

Over a 40-year career in photography, Gene Ray shot the movers and shakers of the world. He remembers boxer Muhammad Ali as “cool and calm” and television star Ed Sullivan as “nice”. But his beginnings were humble. He grew up on Hermitage Road, Devo...

There was an invisible line dividing Collin Simmons’s Pembroke neighbourhood in the 1950s. White people lived on one side of Happy Valley Road, and blacks on the other. Socially, their paths did not cross. Despite that, it was not until he was a teen...