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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...

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...

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...