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A Bermudian teen who dreams of delivering babies has won a $5,000 fraternity scholarship. Zaren Bennett, 17, of The Bermuda Institute won Alpha Phi Alpha’s Beautillion on Sunday at the Ruth Seaton James Centre for the Performing Arts. “I want to be a...

Say cheese, but please don’t smile. That’s what Debra Friedman told teens photographed for her exhibition, ‘Twelve to Twenty: Photographing Teenage Bermuda’. The show opens tomorrow at the Masterworks Gallery in Paget. “You’ll notice nobody is smilin...

When Malisa Butterfield took on a teenage foster daughter, she was quick to lay down the rules. “This is an honour roll house,” Ms Butterfield said. “My three older children were all honour roll students, and you will be one also.” The teenager rolle...

Mothers with post-partum depression, you are not alone. That’s the message behind Beyond Blue, a new support group organised by family charity MAMA. “No one talks about post-partum depression,” said group co-founder Angela Hovi, who herself experienc...

Being a mother isn’t always easy. If you have a special-needs child, it can be downright difficult. Lifestyle spoke with moms about the highs and lows of parenting children with unique challenges. It’s rare for Jenny Purvey to get a hug from her s...

If you’re reading this, you probably have a teacher to thank. When I was five years old I dreaded the arrival of the reading teacher, Lorna Andersen. Since I’d started school a few months late, I needed extra help. Mrs Andersen terrified me, as she b...

Hard work pays off. It’s a lesson recently learnt by Northlands Primary students. Almost every hand went up when information technology teacher Mary-Beth Aitken asked for volunteers for a video competition. Once they found out how much work was invol...

Jamori Manders saw a classmate was being punched and kicked on the playground, and demanded the bullies cut it out. To his surprise they did. “I felt proud of myself when they let the person go,” he said. The 11-year-old learned conflict resolution t...

Danielle Foote never expected to win the BSoA student art competition. The 16-year-old CedarBridge Academy student was so certain she hadn’t that she didn’t even bother going to the show’s opening at City Hall. It was her first art competition ever. ...

Pc Arthur Dill would never have dreamed of having his face tattooed when he was a teenager. But some of the young people he encounters as a community action officer are a different ball game. “They don’t think very far into the future,” he said. “The...