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Julia Frith joins the student body at one of the UK’s top drama schools next month; Rose Bruford College lists Hollywood actor Gary Oldman among its alumni. The 19-year-old isn’t hoping to follow in his footsteps, however. “The meaning and purpose o...

Tiffany Paynter has a month to raise $25,000.It’s the final step in a huge effort by the 30-year-old to get her degree from Queen’s University.She dropped out of the Canadian institution after her family ran into financial difficulties in 2005. Schol...

Booking a date with actor David Hasselhoff is easier than you think. That is what 24-year-old Kharis Brooks learnt during an internship with a British cellphone company, Vodafone. “It started as a joke,” Ms Brooks said. “We were planning a campaign ...

Kaiya Richards ran out of money a year into her studies abroad. It was a huge setback but she returned to the Island determined she’d find a way to fulfil her goal of becoming an animal behaviour specialist. Two years later she’s still short of cash ...

This columnist encountered many interesting personalities who ventured home from near and far for the Cup Match/Emancipation Day celebrations. We have no hesitation declaring up front that the most esteemed was the ambitious, hard working Theodore S ...

Michael Walsh was in his mid-thirties before he found his place in life. He quit his job as a welder and became a full-time art teacher at the Bermuda College. Three years later, the 39-year-old considers it one of the best decisions he’s ever made....

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...

The Rev Thomas Wendell Foster is a name that will ring bells among many in Bermuda, especially when they recall the days when, as a dynamic young man he began a career that carried him to the pinnacle of power in the local AME Church. Firstly he was...

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...

Operation ReachBack struck a chord with Betsy Dunn. She was at a conference when she first heard about the US-based charity 18 years ago and knew it was something she wanted to be a part of. Operation ReachBack offers scholarships, mentoring and prof...