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In 2017 Antoinette Dyer had a lot on her plate. She had a full-time job as an ICU nurse at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital. She was also the dedicated head of Bendigas Rophe Ministry, “an international charitable outreach organisation that provides...

For more than three decades Val Protheroe taught music to hundreds of primary school students in Bermuda. Now retired, Mrs Protheroe still remembers most of them. “Last week, I bumped into eight different former students,” the 76-year-old said. “Th...

Keep a positive outlook and focus on your goal is Rotesha James-Dill’s advice to struggling teenagers. She was bullied throughout school. Having thought she’d found her way, she was told her asthma would make the career she’d set her heart on impossi...

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...

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...