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For years, Sharia Whitehurst chewed her nails over whether to start her own clothing line. Would she be able to obtain funding to start a business? Would she be able to handle it while working a full-time job? Would she even sell anything? But when s...

Tenia Woolridge calls the plates, cups and soup bowls she sells through Miss T @ Home “special occasion dinnerware”. If she calls them what they are, bone china, the younger crowd gets antsy. They want to know if they need a wedding registry. They ...

Claire-Ann Raynor resisted when her husband Carl first taught her how to calculate the square footage of a roof. They were running their decorative moulding business, BMT Ltd, together. “I said you’re going to be here, why do I need to know that?” s...

Beaded flip-flops, baskets, bags, clothing, even dog leashes — it’s all straight out of Africa at Authentic Afrika Bermuda. Tanya Osewe, a Bermudian who spent 20 years in Kenya, started the business a year ago, wanting to showcase the beauty of Afric...

When the Dockyard Glassworks opened 20 years ago this week, rum cakes were meant to be a side hustle to the hand made glass on offer. But today, the rum cakes are more than holding their own under the banner of The Bermuda Rum Cake Company. “They’...

Frank Burgess trains ninjas, but you won’t find any sword-wielding assassins, all dressed in black at his dojo, Fudoshin Ninjutsu Bermuda. “Grandmasters will tell you it is a peaceful martial art that gets you through everyday life, rather than throw...

Sometimes it really pays to read the fine print. During the month of May, Joshua Bate Trading Company offered a $500 cash prize, or $750 in store credit, to potential customers who read the fine print in their terms of sale agreement. If they read t...

The first year Keisha Allen-Smith set up tutoring service, Target Learning, she had only three students. But she stuck to her guns and the numbers started to grow. “Information about it spread through word of mouth,” said the Berkeley Institute teac...

Mailboxes Unlimited has acquired New Jersey-based freight-consolidating company, Corporate Forwarding Services of America LLC, after years of working side by side with them. Kenny Thomson, Mailboxes Unlimited’s president, officially took over last n...

Salintae Tuzo-Smith’s counselling business Metanoia Power came out of a very bad time in her life. Back in 2016, she was contemplating whether to commit suicide or continue to live. “I had a lot of health problems,” the 32-year old said. Doctors d...