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Marq Rodriguez enrolled in school in India and braced himself for a culture shock. He hadn’t ventured further than the US and the Caribbean but decided to go to Mumbai for film school because the tuition was relatively cheap. “I’m paying for my schoo...

Emily Chadderton’s heart leapt when she saw the job posting for a teacher’s assistant in China. The 22-year-old had a great sense of adventure and no clue what she’d do after finishing her master’s degree. “I immediately wanted to do it and messaged...

Jabari Hayward knows exactly what he wants under his Christmas tree: enough food to feed the hungry. It’s a tall order that he and his friends at Victor Scott Primary School aren’t waiting on Santa to fulfil. “My Christmas wish is to give food to peo...

Surfing and yoga were all Eloisa Mayers had in mind when she went to Nicaragua four years ago. And then she came across her dream home in Granada, a city on the shores of Lake Nicaragua. It’s been two years since she opened Casa Lucia, the boutique ...

As a child, no one would have picked Benjamin “Benny” Sousa as a future millionaire. He had dropped out of school by the age of 10 and was packing shelves in a grocery store; he couldn’t read very well. “I refused to go to school because the children...

Charles Jeffers dreams were shattered when his high school scholarship was withdrawn. He was 16 and earning only passing grades at Berkeley Institute. He wanted to become a lawyer. His widowed mother was struggling to provide for him and his three si...

It’s been 18 years since Edward Durham retired, but the former football coach has not been forgotten. He trained members of the Pembroke Hamilton Club for five years. According to the 80-year-old, the instruction he gave wasn’t limited to the footba...

If your idea of decorating your dorm room involves buying a new duvet cover and slapping a poster up on the wall, then think again. Bermudian-based home decorators Oneka Benn Schwartz and Louisa Freisenbruch have some better ideas for how to afforda...

Janet Percy never expected that retirement would give her a chance to reinvent herself. She was a popular artist, known for her watercolours and drawings of plants and flowers. And then in 2000, the year before she retired from her job in human resou...

Helle Patterson spent her childhood outrunning the horrors of wartime Europe. The semi-retired Bermuda teacher was born in Rakvere, Estonia in 1938, the younger daughter of Karl and Meeta Nurk. The Russians invaded when she was 19 months old. “Then w...