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In her 40s Jeannie Olander decided she wanted to study culinary arts at the Bermuda College. But, despite many queries, they refused to accept her. “I loved to cook,” she said. “I kept asking if they would take mature students and they kept saying no...

“We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.” R. Buckminster Fuller This week as we make our way through y...

Tania Stafford is tearing up the rowing world in the north of England, after moving there nine months ago. The 64-year-old led a “newish” team to victory at the North of England Sprint Rowing Championships. One of the biggest rowing events in the UK,...

In 2018 Claudette Baisden walked away from the job she had worked towards her entire life. Friends suggested that she have a rethink; that she was likely reeling from the back-to-back losses of her grandmother, Myrtle Baisden, and her mother, Diane S...

David Ker has been charming visitors at the St George’s Historical Society for 24 years. The replica 18th-century press in the basement of Mitchell House on Duke of Kent Street is his baby. The 79-year-old loves demonstrating how the press once worke...

A children’s charity took to the streets yesterday morning as the group prepared to celebrate its 50th anniversary. Members of the Kiwanis Club of Hamilton greeted the public with a banner at the Crow Lane roundabout as commuters made their way into ...

About 20 years ago Maurice Foley visited Cape Town and fell in love. The people, the seemingly endless beauty, the culture – it all fascinated him so much he began making an annual pilgrimage to the South African city. Five years later, feeling guilt...

In what seems like another lifetime, Kade Stallard spent his days crisscrossing the US producing music videos and taking pictures of underground punk, rock and grunge bands. When the pandemic hit, his career came to a halt. “Everything just shut do...

“An object at rest stays at rest and an object in motion stays in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force.” Sir Isaac Newton Inertia. We all feel it – that mind-numbing heaviness that settles...

September, though still hot and humid and open to hurricane activity, will start to show signs of a slowing of growth and flowering. This makes it a good time to assess what attention should be given to the garden. Activity will have been significant...