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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...

Helen Daley always tried to bring out the best in her students. She was a teacher for more than 40 years and it became her classroom mission. She still has the thank you notes she received from some of her pupils. “I just saw so many possibilities th...

Having never been in a relationship herself, the obvious question was how Marilyn Steede was able to write a romance novel. She started working on When Your Body Gets Weak in 1998, and published it in July. “The love story comes from nothing in my ...

Lloyd Williams moved to Nevis and thought it was a good time to try farming. He’d never planted anything in his life but there was a lot more open land there than in Bermuda and agriculture was important to his Bahá’í faith. “I was a city boy,” the ...

Gloria Frederick has never played a round of golf in her life, but don’t tell her she’s not an expert on the game. When she can’t travel to tournaments, she’s watching on television. Sunday was a very good day. She sat glued to the television as her ...

Llantrisant, Wales, is a quiet place. Other than a couple of bars and historical landmarks there is not a whole lot to do. And that made it the perfect spot for Owain Johnston to write. He spent March there, penning two full-length plays — Right/Cro...

Ada Nyabongo has been teaching piano for almost 80 years. Just about anyone who visits the 92 year old’s Hamilton Parish home is fair game for a lesson. Don’t try to dodge it by saying you’re not musical. “What do you mean you’re not musical?” is h...

During the America’s Cup, Jamir Hatherley fell in love with sailing. The ten-year-old tried the sport for the first time in the AC’s Endeavour programme. “It left me wanting more,” she said. So last week, Jamir joined the Sandys Boat Club Summer Camp...

Esme Williams’s life was going great until tragedy struck. She’d just started a new job and was loving every minute. And then she lost her eyesight. A rare disease struck one eye, and then the other, taking away most of her vision. The 72-year-old ha...

Anthony and Hannah Astwood were humble 18th-century salt rakers. Today they have hundreds of descendants including at least two knights, former Premier Sir John Swan and former Chief Justice and Court of Appeals president, Sir James Astwood. A family...