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Leleath Bailey used to love going to the Kiwanis Club’s annual convention in Massachusetts. A self-described “people person”, she enjoyed making friends however this year she was a little hesitant. “With the pandemic, I said I am not going,” she said...

Nkenge Warren-Swan loved her students but just the thought of talking to their parents terrified her. Her fear showed at every parent teacher night where her strategy was to just “get through it”. “I spoke with a lot of long pauses,” Ms Warren-Swan...

Have you ever had an experience that was so hysterically funny that you just weren’t sure you could ever explain it to someone else? Picture me now sitting at the keyboard trying to figure out how to explain the side-splitting pandemonium that ensued...

A thousand years after Leif Erikson – or his fellow Vikings – created a European settlement in North America, the great seafarers have finally arrived in Bermuda, having crossed the Gulf Stream in the Viking Orion, one of the oceanic vessels of the V...

Jason Hollis feeds his garden with something that resembles primordial ooze – a mixture of molasses and microorganisms from compost. The idea is to increase the beneficial microbes in the soil, improve the nutrient density of the plants and better th...

This summer, university student Kameron Young was looking for a challenge. When the 19-year-old saw a virtual internship advertised by a Colombian tech firm, she thought perfect. There was just one problem. She did not have all of the skills they wer...

Visiting the Isle of Wight in 1949, Kay Latter wanted to build a sand castle. “I was probably about seven,” the 79 year old said. “There was a lovely, sandy beach, but it was so full of litter that I could not build a sand castle. I was digging up tr...

People often crane their necks as they drive past Robert ‘Ice Water’ Smith’s house on Vesey Street in Devonshire. They are not looking for him; they are checking out the clock on his balcony. It is not a particularly big clock, or a fancy one, but it...

Rotarians dug into their pockets to bring a shelter for homeless women and their children a step closer to completion. Sandys Rotary Club donated $10,000 to Habitat for Humanity Bermuda for the Transformational Living Centre on Parsons Road in Pembro...

A weed is a plant that is considered undesirable, or simply a plant that is in the wrong place. The adage one year’s seeding equals seven years’ weeding, has a great ring of the truth; simply observing growth these last several months leads me to thi...