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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...

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...