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Colin Young is one of the few remaining survivors of a deadly fire at Mount Allison University eighty years ago. Four students died, countless others were injured throwing themselves from upper level windows to escape the blaze. “It was the early hou...

At 16, Kameron Young conducted a genetic study. At 17 she spent a year in Spain becoming fluent in Spanish. At 19, she was a virtual intern with a Columbian tech company. Now, in her first year in Queen Mary University of London’s biomedical engineer...

Ten years ago Trevor Johnstone never would have imagined he would one day become vegan. But at 35 he has fully embraced the lifestyle and, through his company Plant Based Fuel BDA, offers his skills as a "plant-based chef and nutrition advocate". His...

As a young police officer in England, George Hammond had his pick of British colonies to apply for work. He chose Bermuda on a whim, although he didn’t really know where it was. “That was the one that stuck out for me,” the 85-year-old said. “I took ...

Scarlett Smale trailed behind as her classmates learnt how to read in Primary Two. Her mother, Heather, had an inkling of what the problem might be. Scarlett’s father, Nick, and her grandfather Richard Kitson are dyslexic; her great uncle, Kirk Kits...

Geoff Tomlinson has not lived in Bermuda since 1975 but still reads The Royal Gazette every day and regularly checks out the weather on the Dockyard webcam. He describes his six years here as magical. He was teaching in Cambridgeshire, England in the...

In 1953 Anne Hines became the first Bermudian to successfully dance en pointe in public. She did it at the Colonial Opera House on Victoria Street where she played the dying swan in Swan Lake. “My friend was supposed to do it,” the 82-year-old said. ...

Jill Amos Raine has painted and sold art in St George's since 1975. So it made sense to her, when her husband David died in 2004, to sell their Devonshire property and move to Convict Bay. “People told me not to make any major decisions for the firs...

Heather Willens remembers just how isolated she felt when her son, Theo, was born last year. Worried by the pandemic, she initially kept him close to home but as time went on she noticed he seemed a little more prone to sensory overload than his two-...

Eight people have died in traffic accidents in Bermuda, so far this year, compared to six for the whole of 2020, and seven in 2019. Tired of seeing friends and family hurt or killed in road traffic accidents, driving instructor Darren Glasford decide...