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Tears ran down Mary Rose Allen’s face as she stood looking at her Berkeley Institute students lined up shoulder to shoulder. The year was 1946, and future historian Ruth Thomas was one of the students in the line. “We didn’t dare say anything but we ...

Photographs in Teresa Kirby Smith’s latest exhibition are a little bit blurry, out of focus and unreal, and that was exactly her intention when she took them. Ms Smith won the 2014 Charman prize with an abstract photograph of a gombey in motion. Her ...

Francesca Cacace can honestly say she knows the story behind every single exotic bead, scarf and bangle on sale at the upcoming KatKids Christmas market. Miss Cacace, KatKids Events Manager and Director, travelled to Nepal this summer, by herself, to...

Before slavery in America, there was no racism in the western world. That’s according to Professor Dr Lisa Farrington, a professor in the art and music department at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. She basis this claim largely ...

Quick, name a best-selling science fiction author who writes from a Caribbean perspective. You’ve got ten seconds. Go. That was tough, wasn’t it? Next time, you might name Grenada-born Tobias S Buckell author of novels such as Hurricane Fever, Arctic...

Herbert Wolffe’s proudest moment was the day he was hired as a houseman at the Elbow Beach Hotel. The possibility of ever being employed seemed remote when he was first diagnosed with schizophrenia as a teenager. Now 47, he has spent most of his lif...

It’s time for local chefs to stop hiding in the kitchen and show their true ingredients. Tickets to the Bermuda Hospitality Institute’s third annual Bermuda’s Rising Chef of the Year competition go on sale today. BHI executive director Malika Musson ...

Take one equestrian, add some German and stick him in China. It’s an unusual mix, and Raishun Burch is making it work for him in a big way. The 25-year-old propelled an internship with a German sports marketing firm into a full-time job, organising e...

Expand your world, take the plunge! That’s the message scuba diving enthusiast Weldon Wade has for his fellow Islanders. He’ll speak on Diving With a Purpose at this weekend’s TedX Bermuda conference. Mr Wade, a systems analyst at Argus Insurance, fi...

Kristy Simons pictured shiny floors, private rooms and paved driveways when she first heard about Uganda’s state-of-the-art Kiwoko Hospital. The reality was so different from her fantasy that she now laughs thinking about it. “Kiwoko Hospital definit...