1073 results returned for search: "" category "Other" author Jessie Moniz Hardy
At the airport in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Aliea Kamara could not hug her friends goodbye or even shake their hands.
It was only then that the reality of the Ebola epidemic hit home, despite having been there for several months supervising the buildin...
DATE: Nov 20, 2014
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
Get writing.....the annual short story competition at The Royal Gazette is underway.
The Royal Gazette’s Christmas Short Story Contest has been running now for over a half century; generations of local writers have submitted stories. Now it’s your tu...
DATE: Nov 20, 2014
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
You couldn’t pay most women to go bald, but nurse Roslyn “Wally” Simmons had her price: $3,650. That’s the amount she raised for cancer charity PALS by chopping off 12 years worth of dreadlocks. She presented the cheque to PALS this week.Ms Simmons w...
DATE: Nov 19, 2014
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
Aida was an award-winning Broadway hit. Why not bring it to Bermuda?
Berkeley Institute students are hoping to replicate that success when they perform Aida next month — the school’s first musical in several years.
Set mostly in Ancient Egypt, it cen...
DATE: Nov 17, 2014
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
What better way to reflect Bermuda’s charm, than with an actual charm?
Adrienne Cotterill thought it was a great idea and created a line of lockets she dubbed Bermuda Charm.
Each contains Bermuda beach sand and a tiny charm such as a crab, turtle or...
DATE: Nov 17, 2014
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
Some people see feral roosters as pests, not Kocchakorn Marchand.
A white rooster is the symbol of her home city of Lampang, Thailand. One sits on the city seal, and images of the birds are seen everywhere, particularly in temples.
They’re now also t...
DATE: Nov 17, 2014
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
If Geoffrey Butler Durrant is looking a little radiant these days, it might be the pregnancy hormones.
The 70-year-old lost 50lbs by taking shots of hCG, the hormone women make when they are pregnant.
It’s an extreme diet that’s made headlines in the...
DATE: Nov 12, 2014
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
It’s been 69 years since the Second World War ended, but interest in Remembrance Day is on the upswing according to war veteran advocate Carol Everson.
The Royal Gazette spoke with her as she sold poppies in Hamilton for the Bermuda Legion. Money fr...
DATE: Nov 10, 2014
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
Music + wine will hopefully = $$$ for Chewstick.
Local band 3 Kings will take centre stage at a fundraiser for Chewstick organised by Discovery Wines.
The eponymously named Charles Smith Wines will lubricate festivities.
Their American owner started...
DATE: Nov 07, 2014
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
If you want to see just how competitive teachers can be, divide a group of them into teams and ask them to build robots.
Trash talk, pranks and cheers were the order of the day at a robotics workshop for teachers in the Bermuda Union of Teachers at B...
DATE: Nov 06, 2014
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
