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Joan Gillan’s life was almost cut short by a cockroach 83 years ago. “When I was 14 years old I disgraced myself on my bike,” the 97-year-old said. “In those days, Grey’s Bridge in Sandys had wooden planks. You could see the water below as you rode o...

Eron Woods is helping other students pay for college — and he isn’t even finished with his own education. The 19-year-old recently gave $500 to help a culinary student at his alma mater, the Bermuda College. Mr Woods graduated from the culinary art...

Edith Hollis Mann’s uncle drove her to Mount St Agnes Academy from Shelly Bay in a horse and buggy in 1927. “When I got older I bicycled to school whether it was sunny, wet or there were gale force winds,” she said. “Sometimes, when I was late, I wou...

A Bermudian artist will have a place in the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto. Games organisers have commissioned photos of work by textile artist Ami Zanders. Ms Zanders’s works were selected as part of a Textile Museum of Canada project called W...

Art, one woman is hoping it really can bring the community together. Dany Pen is behind a march to raise support for art education in Bermuda later this month. She claims it’s necessary because art classes in the public school system are so poorly fu...

Keith Kitson had serious learning challenges at age 14. He was bounced from school to school here and abroad and then he met Melvina Chapman Pearman. “He was like an empty shell,” said Mrs Pearman, who was then a paraeducator with the Department of E...

The world is getting a peek at a special aspect of Bermuda culture, courtesy of a pair of young filmmakers. Ethan Rogers’ eight-minute film documents how residents here collect and store water. Water Water came tops in a competition organised by the ...

Teenager Sachio Harrison wanted to raise money for cancer charities but knew his efforts alone wouldn’t be enough. He inspired the entire student body at Somersfield Academy to help him achieve his goal and together they raised $16,785.66. The money ...

You don’t have to mind your manners quite so much in Spain. That’s the impression Alison Gurini got when she moved there to teach English as a second language. Her Spanish friends asked her to stop saying please, thank you and excuse me all the time....

Move over Muppets, Bermuda puppets have come to town. Dennis Joaquin shows up at a nursery school and toddlers’ faces light up. It’s not him they’re excited to see, it’s the friend he carries on his hand. Mr Joaquin and artist Kendra Earls created D...