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At 32, Michael Pitcher was jailed for life. High on cocaine, he and another man broke into a senior citizen’s home and beat her with a stick. Days later, she died from her injuries in hospital.
When the verdict came in, he thought his life was over.
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DATE: Jun 05, 2017
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Terita Bean will never forget the call.
The person at the other end was telling her she had been named Mother of the Year. Problem was, she didn’t have any children.
It turned out she’d been nominated for the annual Continental Society competition by...
DATE: May 12, 2017
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Margaret Giloth remembers being painfully shy as a child.
She believes having eclectic hobbies helped find her identity: arranging flowers, collecting hats and modelling in fashion shows.
“I couldn’t figure out who I was by following the crowd,” said...
DATE: May 11, 2017
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Grace and Liam Flannery put their heart and soul into their first art exhibition.
The ten and 13-year-old siblings put up sketches, paintings and ceramics in Journeys: Real and Imagined, at the Bermuda College.
Gack stole the show.
“I made green sli...
DATE: May 01, 2017
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Cancer “knocked the hell” out of Jon Beard’s life.
It took his wife, Jennie, in 2009 and then his father, Ray.
In 2014, Mr Beard found out he had prostate cancer, the disease that had killed his father the year before.
“It was disconcerting to develo...
DATE: Apr 19, 2017
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Penny Saltus cannot walk down the street without hearing a child singing out: “Hi, Aunt Penny!”
Children call it from bus windows, in the street, in the grocery store. A hug often follows.
In the past 33 years, Ms Saltus has worked with hundreds of ...
DATE: Apr 07, 2017
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It’s hard for children in Bermuda to imagine life in the Arctic.
It’s over 3,000 miles away, and a lot colder.
Northlands Primary principal Charles Joyiens had to do a lot of explaining when he told students they’d Skype with someone there.
“They k...
DATE: Mar 30, 2017
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Patricia Deane-Gray isn’t the type to suffer fools gladly.
If you’re coming for a visit you better be able to talk ballet; it’s her passion. The 82-year-old has been teaching dance for 62 years.
“I’ve taught thousands of students over the years,” sh...
DATE: Mar 28, 2017
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Keema Perry believes in helping people to find their power.
She ran a part-time business, hawking her home-made beauty products, until she came across a website for self-help guru Lisa Nichols two years ago.
It changed her life.
“She kept using the w...
DATE: Mar 15, 2017
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Miguel Postlethwaite loves the adrenalin rush he gets from scoring a goal.
Football, cricket, rugby — you name it, the 15-year-old has played it.
But he insists he’s not competitive in a cocky, arrogant way.
“I see the people I play sports with as f...
DATE: Mar 02, 2017
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