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Some students think out-of-the-box, BHS girls take the box apart and make it into an outfit. At least they do during the school’s annual Eco Runway show. The event encourages teams of students ages 11 to 17 years old, to make outfits and accessories ...

Jamori Manders saw a classmate was being punched and kicked on the playground, and demanded the bullies cut it out. To his surprise they did. “I felt proud of myself when they let the person go,” he said. The 11-year-old learned conflict resolution t...

Danielle Foote never expected to win the BSoA student art competition. The 16-year-old CedarBridge Academy student was so certain she hadn’t that she didn’t even bother going to the show’s opening at City Hall. It was her first art competition ever. ...

Admission to one of the world’s top universities might intimidate anyone. Bermudians Alexa Virdi and Aliyyah Ahad found Oxford University quirky, and were delighted with the beautiful, old city it’s set in. Mrs Virdi is studying for her PhD in law, ...

Pc Arthur Dill would never have dreamed of having his face tattooed when he was a teenager. But some of the young people he encounters as a community action officer are a different ball game. “They don’t think very far into the future,” he said. “The...

The moment Ciera DeSilva set foot in Peru, she fell in love. She was covered in dust, surrounded by heat and poverty in Chiclayo, a desert city of 63,000 people in the north of the country, but the 24-year-old Bermudian saw only the beauty of the peo...

A few years ago, Melodye Micere Van Putten would never have imagined having a film made about her life. Her Ashay Rites of Passage curriculum had been cancelled — just five years after she began empowering Dellwood students with black history. She wa...

Manish Thareja was ten years old when his father died of a heart attack. He was raised by a handful of women — his mother and his two sisters. “It left a huge hole in my life,” said the 36-year-old from New Delhi, India. “I always wished I had a fath...

One day Brenda Carbonette decided she was sick and tired of waiting for tardy repairmen. She was 45 years old. A self-confessed girlie-girl who once won a beauty pageant back in her native Canada, and had a passion for diamonds. “I thought I could l...

A few cherished photos are all that remain of Dany Pen’s family history in Cambodia. One of them was snapped the day her mother, Yean Chham, arrived at a Thailand refugee camp in 1979. She escaped there after fleeing from the Khmer Rouge. The picture...