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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...

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...