503 results returned for search: "education AND " author Jessie Moniz Hardy
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...
DATE: Mar 26, 2015
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Parenting
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AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
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...
DATE: Mar 24, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Home & Away
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AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
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...
DATE: Mar 19, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Parenting
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AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
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...
DATE: Mar 12, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Parenting
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AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
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...
DATE: Mar 10, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Home & Away
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AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
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...
DATE: Mar 09, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Arts & Entertainment
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AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
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...
DATE: Mar 03, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Home & Away
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AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
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...
DATE: Feb 27, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Food & Wine
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AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
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...
DATE: Feb 26, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Parenting
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AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
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...
DATE: Feb 16, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Arts & Entertainment
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AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
