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Jennifer Mahoney always thought working for a charity would be fabulous. What could be more fun than helping people for a living? The bubble burst when she became Eliza DoLittle Society executive director a year ago. The charity provides food to peop...

Some people start businesses for a bit of extra cash, others lose their jobs and have no choice. For Stephanie Lee it was a bit of both. “I’d been doing marketing for Sandys 360 Sports, Aquatic & Enrichment Centre for two years when it closed in 2013...

For years, Samantha Smith was angry at her father, George, for dying. In a month, she would have turned 12; she was also excited about graduating from primary school. “He’d been sick for a year or two and always rallied,” she said. When her father...

Sheila Johnson believes in disciplining the old-fashioned way — the strap. “I was strict,” the 81-year-old laughed. “I don’t think I could be a teacher today. You can’t discipline children anymore and I’ve heard that parents aren’t supportive of te...

As a little boy, Danny Simmons hid whenever his grandmother boiled flaxseed on the stove. “It tasted terrible,” the 53-year-old said. “She said it cooled the blood. I said what do I need cool blood for, I want to be outside playing.” But as he got o...

Today is Thanksgiving in the United States, but business as usual for Bermuda. There’ll be no official turkey pardoning or Thanksgiving parade down Front Street. Still, many Bermudians find their own way to celebrate the holiday. Some get turkey dinn...

David Gonzalez wasn’t too thrilled the first time he saw the movie Sleeping Beauty. He found the characters boring: Sleeping Beauty spent much of the story asleep, and not much was known about the prince. “The only one with any real energy was the re...

Danai Hongwanishkul was one of Marcus Samuelsson’s big fans. He collected the celebrity chef’s cookbooks and basically “kept up with everything he did”. So when a recruiter called looking to hire him as Marcus’ Bermuda’s executive chef de cuisine, he...

Disaster brings out the writer in Shawn Murphy. After 9/11, the American put pen to paper protesting in the local media the call for violent revenge against his country’s enemies. In March, a week after a family member suffered a stroke, he started w...

Sylvia Hayward-Harris was 8 when a family friend started molesting her. He stopped four years later, when she developed breasts. “I think he preferred little girls,” said Ms Hayward-Harris, an ordained pastor and counsellor. Two brothers of one fr...