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Spirit Day at our school is a time when everyone is able to come in their house colours. Plus, we have special events and make up songs. This year my mom, who is an artist, painted my hair bright yellow and green. On my way to school I felt embarrass...

“No, No No Don’t do Drugs” This is the title of the song we created with our teachers for the Pride song competition. We did not win but we performed our song for a huge audience on the steps of City Hall last week. Ed Christopher, the town crier, gr...

Jackie Costello is a girl on a mission to break the stigma attached to mental illness. It’s a cause that hits close to home for the 15-year-old. Growing up with an uncle with paranoid schizophrenia, the Somersfield Academy student saw the challenges...

On Sunday afternoon in Hamilton car park the America’s Cup racers put on an event where everyone who came could see them race on a giant screen. I was at the event with my nana, my dad, and my older sister, who is amazing even though we might have s...

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...