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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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Maxine Esdaille dreamt of becoming a nurse until a frank talk about blood changed her mind. She then considered becoming a scientist, but didn’t receive much encouragement. “Black women weren’t scientists in those days,” she said. “Someone so nicely ...

When Andrew Trott-Francis’s grandfather developed cancer, his first thought was “not again”. His grandmother had died from pancreatic cancer six years before. Doctors suggested Dale Gibbons use a trial drug to fight the cancer they’d found in his liv...

Richard Caisey is a self-confessed sports nut. Football, cricket, softball — you name it, he’s played it. It all came to a standstill when he was diagnosed with cancer in 2006 at age 23. “One day I was playing cricket in the Evening League and I was...

Jack Fraser was 17 the first time he saw a car. It was an Austin 8, and joy of joys, he was able to sit in it. The challenge came when he was finally allowed to take the wheel a year later. Automatic cars weren’t around then. To get a stick shift l...

Gombey dancing is in Teresa Warner’s blood. She is descended from founders of both Warner’s and Place’s Gombey troupes. When she started dancing with Warner’s at the age of 6, it came naturally. However, her father, Gregory Place, a former captain o...