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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...

As a young police officer in England, George Hammond had his pick of British colonies to apply for work. He chose Bermuda on a whim, although he didn’t really know where it was. “That was the one that stuck out for me,” the 85-year-old said. “I took ...

Corville Hylton is the person to contact if you need help finding your voice. He struggled with his own for years. Asked to read a scripture at church he was so anxious he still can't recall what he actually said; at his first Toastmasters meeting in...

Sometimes philanthropy can be a bit like the chicken and the egg: do you start with a desire to support a specific issue in the community – or the unsupported need that must be addressed if our community is to thrive? One corporation based in Bermuda...

Scarlett Smale trailed behind as her classmates learnt how to read in Primary Two. Her mother, Heather, had an inkling of what the problem might be. Scarlett’s father, Nick, and her grandfather Richard Kitson are dyslexic; her great uncle, Kirk Kits...

Geoff Tomlinson has not lived in Bermuda since 1975 but still reads The Royal Gazette every day and regularly checks out the weather on the Dockyard webcam. He describes his six years here as magical. He was teaching in Cambridgeshire, England in the...

Sometimes the role of a community foundation involves connecting the dots. One dot will be a pressing need in the community, another will be a methodology or plan to address that need, and yet another will be the wherewithal to fund that need. Take P...

It’s the 1990s: Bermuda is a generous community. Charitable giving, tag days and raffles abound because everyone wants to help people “less fortunate than ourselves”. And most people are fortunate: visitors flock to the island by boat and by air, enc...

In 1953 Anne Hines became the first Bermudian to successfully dance en pointe in public. She did it at the Colonial Opera House on Victoria Street where she played the dying swan in Swan Lake. “My friend was supposed to do it,” the 82-year-old said. ...

It wasn’t Joy Wilson-Tucker's idea to establish the Bermudian Heritage Museum or to place it in St George's but somehow, all the responsibility of running it has fallen on her shoulders. At 79, she cannot carry the load much longer. Getting to 29 Wat...