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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...

Nkenge Warren-Swan loved her students but just the thought of talking to their parents terrified her. Her fear showed at every parent teacher night where her strategy was to just “get through it”. “I spoke with a lot of long pauses,” Ms Warren-Swan...

All the social distancing during the pandemic has made some people antsy, but not Conchita Ming. She loves being at home where she always has a project on the go. Most recently she traced a branch of her family back to Tom Munson, a slave born in Afr...

This summer, university student Kameron Young was looking for a challenge. When the 19-year-old saw a virtual internship advertised by a Colombian tech firm, she thought perfect. There was just one problem. She did not have all of the skills they wer...