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A few years ago, Melodye Micere Van Putten would never have imagined having a film made about her life. Her Ashay Rites of Passage curriculum had been cancelled — just five years after she began empowering Dellwood students with black history. She wa...

Manish Thareja was ten years old when his father died of a heart attack. He was raised by a handful of women — his mother and his two sisters. “It left a huge hole in my life,” said the 36-year-old from New Delhi, India. “I always wished I had a fath...

Edith Hollis Mann’s uncle drove her to Mount St Agnes Academy from Shelly Bay in a horse and buggy in 1927. “When I got older I bicycled to school whether it was sunny, wet or there were gale force winds,” she said. “Sometimes, when I was late, I wou...

People who get their children vaccinated are “sheeples” who follow the flock. That’s the belief of one parent who hasn’t inoculated her kids against diseases such as measles, mumps and rubella. Her opponents call her a lunatic. The vaccination debate...

A jump rope team is dazzling the world with their skills and scenes of Bermuda. The three-minute video, by Rockfire Productions, has had 800 views since it debuted on internet site Vimeo this week. Island Hopping shows the Bermy Bouncers, a competit...

Good days don’t happen by chance, they happen by intent. It’s one of the messages in counsellor Saadia Bean’s personal empowerment book, Live With All Your Heart. Reader Angela Brangman said it changed her life outlook and her relationship with her 1...

Chelsea DaPonte dug into the plate of pasta with gusto, not realising that she was about to make herself very sick. Her mother, Becky DaPonte, had carefully requested gluten-free pasta but the waitress didn’t pay much attention. The sauce was gluten-...

Lee-Ann Liles thinks her daughter got addicted to Netflix because her tablet made it so accessible. Hand-held devices sometimes bring communication to a halt in Wendy Wilson’s home. Loredana Roberts Perrin isn’t taking any chances, however. Her girl...

The world is getting a peek at a special aspect of Bermuda culture, courtesy of a pair of young filmmakers. Ethan Rogers’ eight-minute film documents how residents here collect and store water. Water Water came tops in a competition organised by the ...

What do you do on your way to work? Florence Graham Welton sings her way through the doldrums of the daily commute. The 11-year-old Bermuda High School student is now the youngest soloist in the BMDS pantomime, The Pied Piper. She says she is inspire...