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Rickeesha Binns always assumed she would die young. She was a drug addict and a prostitute, following the path of her parents before her. She thinks her mother, Peggy Binns, was on her way to get high when she died in a bike accident at 34. Eight mon...

Apryl Jackson was overwhelmed when she first transferred to Warwick Academy. She was 14 and struggled to fit in. “I felt out of place and acted out negatively,” Miss Jackson, now 23, said. “I was often in trouble.” In stepped teacher Jessica Bowdle...

The Bermuda Tattoo, hosted by the Bermuda Regiment to celebrate its 50th anniversary, was held between October 22 and 24 and included musicians from all over the Island, as well as faraway places such as Jamaica and the UK, totaling about 400 perform...

On the morning of Friday, October 23, students from Purvis Primary learnt about a variety of careers. The lower school came to school dressed as community workers and received a visit from Ashley, the owner of Ashley’s Lemonade. Ashley spoke to the...

Sheamar Simmons will always remember Wales as the place he discovered his passion for life. The 17-year-old was one of six local students on an Outward Bound expedition in the UK in August. Selina Whitter, Amy Palmer, Savannah Loder, Jessica Godfre...

Solemn defendants and a sense of anxiety fill Magistrates’ Court first thing on a Monday morning — and from the bored look on the faces of the security guards, probably every other morning as well. On those long, hard benches, long, hard hours are s...

Renee Lawrence first noticed there was something different about her son in primary school. Jordan could not focus on a task and was always disrupting the class. She assumed he needed more discipline. Then she learnt he had attention deficit hyperac...

Sixteen Warwick Academy Year 13 IB business students set off to New York City over the October half-term break on what has become something of a rite of passage each year. During what can only be described as an inspirational time, the students, acco...

Mark Twain got mischievous at his first Bermuda cricket game, deliberately peppering his host with silly questions. The exasperated host, probably US vice consul William Allen, told him wickets were for the umpire to sit on when he got tired. Twain, ...

Hallowe’en came “frightfully” early to our school this year! When teachers, parents and children arrived at school last Friday morning they were met with such scary music that some of them were almost afraid to get out of their cars! We were all dres...