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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...
DATE: Jan 26, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Arts & Entertainment
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AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
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 ...
DATE: Jan 22, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Parenting
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AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
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 ...
DATE: Jan 21, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Wellness
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AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
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....
DATE: Jan 20, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Home & Away
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AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
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...
DATE: Jan 08, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Parenting
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AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
The joy of dancing in the rain was the inspiration for BNG Student Art Competition winner, Michelle Araujo.
The theme of this year’s annual competition was Water is Me.
Michelle, 15, winner of the secondary school category, painted feet splashing in...
DATE: Dec 11, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
But aren’t they lonely?
Home-schooling parents hear this question all the time.
At a recent sports day held for home-schooled children, over 30 families showed up. There were so many children they had to be photographed with the panoramic photo sett...
DATE: Dec 04, 2014
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
You likely haven’t heard of Malikah Tankard but the nine-year-old could soon be Bermuda’s newest “mayor”.
She hopes to become the head of Wonderland, a simulated society at Purvis Primary School designed to teach students leadership skills and prepar...
DATE: Nov 27, 2014
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
At the airport in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Aliea Kamara could not hug her friends goodbye or even shake their hands.
It was only then that the reality of the Ebola epidemic hit home, despite having been there for several months supervising the buildin...
DATE: Nov 20, 2014
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
What better way to reflect Bermuda’s charm, than with an actual charm?
Adrienne Cotterill thought it was a great idea and created a line of lockets she dubbed Bermuda Charm.
Each contains Bermuda beach sand and a tiny charm such as a crab, turtle or...
DATE: Nov 17, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy