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Susannah Cole loves organising things. Her office supplies are carefully filed and labelled in a multi-drawer toolbox. Her students learn the system before they take a highlighter or stapler — so they know exactly where to return them. “If I wasn’t...

Shirley Pearman used to get a lot of parking tickets. The 77-year-old often lingered too long volunteering at the Bermuda National Gallery. She’s a person who likes to get things done, no matter how long it takes. Eventually she started taking the...

Zina Zuill’s heart broke the day her son brought home a report card full of Fs. No matter how much Solomon agonised over school work, his teachers kept asking him to “work harder”. “I fell into the trap of thinking he was just lazy,” said Dr Zuill. ...

The nursery was filled with junk, unnecessary plastic toys that served no purpose. Forty children, all between the ages of 3 and 6, had the rule of the roost. They were having the time of their lives, running around and screaming; their teachers stru...

Roseller Pia was devastated when he had to leave engineering school early. The Filipino had always dreamt of becoming a ship-builder. But he was the eleventh of 12 children and his father, a farmer, could no longer afford to pay for his education. So...

Pete and Annesa Saunders didn’t set out on a 500-mile walk to develop greater patience. They walked the Camino Francés trail from France to Spain last month to raise $25,000 for Impact Mentoring Academy. The joy they got from learning to stop and s...

When Sarai Hines started teaching in England, the system bewildered her. From grading to student classification, everything was different. Then the 22-year-old realised she had an advantage ­— her own island culture. “We all forget what we have to b...

When Cha’von Clarke-Joell moved to England she thought her Bermuda passport qualified her for employment. It should have, but a government official at the nearest Jobcentre office saw things differently. After a year struggling to get the national i...

Colin Duerden has always been fascinated by crime. As a child he loved his father Floyd “Happy” Duerden’s stories of policing Bermuda in the 1940s and 1950s. He thought of becoming a police officer himself, at one point, but his father said “no way!”...

Esme Williams’s life was going great until tragedy struck. She’d just started a new job and was loving every minute. And then she lost her eyesight. A rare disease struck one eye, and then the other, taking away most of her vision. The 72-year-old ha...