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Henrietta Bascombe knocked on James Bean’s door only days after his wife Pamela was buried. Six years later, they were hitched. She hadn’t been looking for a husband; the Salvation Army had sent her as a member of the West End Community Church, to mi...

Children have a way of pushing their dad’s buttons. Take four-year-old Nyah Bean, for example. Sometimes she laughs when her father Reuben is trying to tell her something important. And when he does start to lose his cool, she gives him strong advice...

Arthur, Louis and Malcolm Ming can’t walk down the street without stopping to talk. They love people. No surprise then, that not one of them had a typical office job. Arthur, who is known as Junior, is a boarding pass agent at LF Wade International ...

There are artists who like to go with the flow, painting whatever they feel. Margaret Best is not one of them. She has always loved drawing, but precisely. Plants are her speciality. Every leaf and shoot, even the fur on the leaves and stems are in...

When Maxine Esdaille started asking about the Bermuda Native Yacht Club she got only blank looks. The all-black club started in 1844, and was probably the first of its kind. “I talked to people from the local sailing clubs, commodores from all thre...

Leah Richardson dreamt of taking art classes when she was younger but couldn’t afford them. So, at 14, she taught herself. “I was homeschooled and the lessons I wanted were quite expensive,” she said. “I watched a few YouTube videos about painting, b...

That turmeric in your pantry just might save you from breast cancer. It’s a theory scientist Saraswati Sukumar hopes will gain traction. Two years ago she began testing to see if curcumin, a substance in the Indian spice, had any impact on tumours in...

Ellen Kelly’s favourite saying as a teacher was time waits for no man. She’s often reminded of that when she meets former students. “Some of them are 50 years old now,” said the 70-year-old. “I don’t feel old, I feel like Rip Van Winkle. I wonder if...

At 32, Michael Pitcher was jailed for life. High on cocaine, he and another man broke into a senior citizen’s home and beat her with a stick. Days later, she died from her injuries in hospital. When the verdict came in, he thought his life was over. ...

Something changed inside CaVon Raynor when he turned 13. Suddenly, he “just didn’t feel comfortable being a guy”. CaVon tried to push the feelings away but they grew stronger. “Up and out of the blue I just wasn’t comfortable in my body any more,” th...