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A market with a purpose is taking place at Francis Patton Primary School on Sunday. The host is Rise Tribe, a supportive community for anyone struggling through abusive trauma. Clothes, handbags, water bottles and other affirmation-bearing items sold...

“Nina, have you finished writing your book?” My heart breaks every time my mom asks me this question. I laugh and cry at the same time. Despite her dementia, she still connects “work and the book”; her memory of me writing books and numerous articles...

A former teacher at Purvis Primary School who once captained the Bermuda rugby team has died in England. Friends recalled Ceri Holmes as “a larger-than-life character” who showed “genuine concern” towards his students. He was originally from Wales. H...

Darrell’s Island was once a critical hub for seaplanes crossing the Atlantic; today, it’s a sleepy picnic ground. For the past three years Bermuda Institute students have been reimagining it. Their 11ft by 3ft model has a seaplane museum, glamping ar...

There are those senior citizens who relish a slower pace of life. Leon “Sparky” Place isn’t one of them. For more than 60 years he’s helped to keep Bermuda’s gombey tradition alive. As a young child he got hooked by the colours, the music and the cro...

Hurricane Fiona came and went with varying degrees of damage however, the slowing down of growth is an indication of the onset of autumn, Bermuda style. This is when growth stutters along, giving its last fitful spurt before taking the onset of autum...

One of the highlights of the year for Gaëlle Roth is the Bermuda Turtle Project’s annual turtle round-up. For two-weeks every August, D Roth, director of the project, scientists and conservation students, come together to capture, weigh, measure, exa...

As a teenager, Sharon Nannini loved sneaking into her older sister Meredith’s clothes closet. “She was a seamstress and she made beautiful things,” the 75-year-old remembered. “I used to borrow them all the time and put them back before she got home....

For years, Lynnette Davis was known as “the fluoride lady”. Back in the 1970s she had helped the health department launch a dental programme for children. She drove around the island in a van, dispensing fluoride tablets to students. “The children di...

Rudell “RJ” Pitcher has always been passionate about motocross. He was introduced to the sport by his father, Rudell Pitcher, who would take him to Southside where his uncle Jamel Pitcher would race. RJ didn’t start riding until he was four. By the t...