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Lisa Howie is a planner. At the Bermuda National Gallery she often had exhibits planned three or four years down the road. So the next phase in her life is an anomaly. On Thursday she announced she was stepping down after eight years as executive d...

Scott Tucker got into organic farming thinking it would be a breeze. Two years later, he laughs at his naïveté. “Just shoot me,” joked the 60-year-old who runs Bermyfresh Farms with Martin Hatfield. “There’s nothing easy about organic farming.” It’s...

Paige Hallett couldn’t resist trying out. She’d loved The Wizard of Oz since the age of 9, when she first saw it performed live. “I was mesmerised,” said the 27-year-old who stars as Dorothy in the Gilbert & Sullivan production, which opens tonight. ...

Half a mile can feel like an eternity when you’ve never run before and Al Williams had to be reined in. “I had to ask him to slow down or he was going to hurt himself,” said Catherine Burns. It’s something that hardly ever happens in Beat the Couch,...

Felicity Holmes felt guilty for eight years. In 2009, she had promised her dying mother, Molly Smith, that she would complete her book. It had been written and edited; photographs were attached. All she needed to do was publish it. “I felt bad that...

Evie Hackett can happily talk for hours about endemic trees. Unsurprisingly, she struggles to find others willing to listen. The 19-year-old has high-functioning autism, and can fixate on a topic to the point of boredom. “I have never had a friend w...

Evie Hackett can happily talk for hours about endemic trees. Unsurprisingly, she struggles to find others willing to listen. The 19-year-old has high-functioning autism, and can fixate on a topic to the point of boredom. “I have never had a friend w...

Chandra Persad was thrilled to leave Canada’s winters when she moved to Bermuda in 1970. But the Trinidadian soon found Bermuda also had a chilly side. “There was some discrimination against West Indians,” said the 67-year-old. “People would make co...

Neletha Butterfield ran so fast, her father thought she’d become a professional athlete. Life didn’t exactly work out that way. “All I ever ran for is politics,” the 64-year-old joked. She recounts her 14-year career as a PLP MP in Political Beginnin...

DJ Ohmz is a BET house DJ who has appeared in commercials and modelled for Gap. But seven years ago he was just Omar Anderson, virtually unknown and feeling stuck. His home town of Springfield, Massachusetts, offered only a few nightclubs to play i...