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Colin Young is one of the few remaining survivors of a deadly fire at Mount Allison University eighty years ago. Four students died, countless others were injured throwing themselves from upper level windows to escape the blaze. “It was the early hou...

At age 2, Donovan Dyer plopped himself on his Tonka truck and went hurtling down his parents’ 100-foot drive. He screamed with joy; his mother Joanna “died a thousand deaths” as she watched, helplessly. “He loved it,” she said. “That was the sign on ...

Observation is not a natural trait, especially in the garden. We just take for granted that if the plants are green and growing, then all is fine. Unfortunately, that is not the case, something we often come to realise only too late – once the pests ...

For their first wedding anniversary Tony and Patricia Correia decided to splurge on dinner and a movie. The newlyweds took a taxi into Hamilton instead of pedalling; at the Jungle Room, a popular spot on Queen Street, they watched a live band. “They ...

Miguel Mejias’s dream was to become a marine biologist but his plan fell to pieces when he discovered he couldn’t dive. A chance meeting with David Wingate gave him a new purpose. As part of the Bermuda College’s virtual 2022 Roche Science event on W...

Her daughter Kameron's behaviour was a red flag for Angela Young. Then 11, she was missing deadline after deadline at BHS. An assessment determined she had ADHD; Ms Young created a set of tools which helped her daughter and led to Kids in Control Sys...

At 77 Sally Godet is still at work, bottling and selling jams. She reckons she has produced between 50,000 and 60,000 jars of Sallie’s Bermuda Preserves since she started the company in the 1990s. She is always amused when people remark that it must ...

In high school, as she sought advice from a guidance counsellor about becoming a psychologist, Cranla Warren was told to "focus on something more attainable". Because she was a Black female from a single-parent home, becoming a secretary made far mor...

Stephen Johnson moved to Bermuda in 2017 and was unexpectedly put to work. Having heard he was a history buff, Jon Beard, the deputy head at Saltus Grammar School, asked that he document its history. Dr Johnson, a retired educator whose wife Deryn L...

As part of my ongoing series of video chats with Project Heaven on Earth author Martin Rutte, this week we recorded a segment on the subject of "building community". Interestingly, Martin and I share a similar experience of the concept of “community”...