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At the age of 14 Grace Aubrey had a monster of a job – making 1,000 doughnuts a day. It was one of the first posts she held after her parents ran into financial difficulty and she was forced to leave school. The teenager was fortunate to find work ...

For 63 years Webster and Cecilia Furbert shared a love of piano music. Mr Furbert loved classical; his wife preferred hymns. “After my wife died it seemed like my fingers just couldn’t get to the keys,” the 88-year-old said. Slowly, with the support ...

Melvin Somner has made everything – from the ornate doors at St Paul’s in Paget to the woodwork in the West End Development Corporation offices in Dockyard. With limited education, the 92-year-old felt carpentry was his only choice. He was at work by...

As a high school teacher Shantel DeShield often sees students who define success by what they own: expensive phones, jewellery or brand name accessories. Ms DeShield often asks students: “Is it better to look rich or be rich?” Concerned that many of...

Throughout shelter-in-place, the calls to Teen Haven from women with children and nowhere to turn kept coming. It broke Michelle Wade’s heart. A few years ago, with charitable donations falling, the Happy Valley Road facility reduced the number of r...

At the end of each day, art teacher Richelle Richards has often collected a box of lost items belonging to children — water bottles, sneakers, lunch bags. She has seen some middle-school students go home without shoes. “How do they not know they don...

Zina Malcolm and Nikki Fagan think they made every mistake in the book when they started The Brand Lion marketing and public relations agency. One of their missteps was doing their own accounting to save money. “You shouldn’t be afraid to spend mone...

The former head of a parent teacher association has collected more than 6,500 signatures in support of the reinstatement of a black history course in schools. Ruth Moran said she fought to keep Melodye Micëre Van Putten’s “Ashay: Rites of Passage” pr...

Annoyed by the British taxi drivers who tried to overcharge her, Daniella Jade Lowe started a blog. Cabby Corruption was the first entry in The View From Where I Sit — the title is a nod to the wheelchair a spinal-cord injury has kept her in for most...

Lawyer Rod Attride-Stirling believes the issues raised by the Black Lives Matter campaign are just as relevant in Bermuda as they are internationally. He and his family, including mother Lucy, a former human rights advocate with Amnesty Internationa...