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There’s a back story to everyone’s life, but few know photographer Theresa Airey’s. She dreamt of studying art but married at 19; her first child was born ten months later. After two more children followed in quick succession, the young mother began...

Have you ever noticed you can find golf balls almost anywhere in Bermuda? Xander Cook has unearthed his fair share. The 18-year-old is taking his love of digging to Wales. He will study archaeology at Cardiff University in September after receiving ...

Over the summer holidays Young Observer will be featuring highlights of the school year in some of our middle and senior schools in our “Year in Review” series. This year Somersfield Academy has been celebrating their 25th anniversary. Montessori Ed...

Speaking passionately to a group of young students, Conchita Ming’s stories were met with a blank response. Although she was talking about the island’s most influential dancers, they did not know who she meant. Worried that their legacies would “di...

They have almost 40 years between them, but Owen Burgess and Taylor Ebbin graduated from high school together last month. The former, a self-described “dropout”, had resigned himself to a life without a diploma until an opportunity forced him to thin...

Colleen DeGrilla used to spend her time dashing from crisis to crisis. She was a social worker at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital at the time, dealing with everything from suspected child abuse to emergency air vacs. Today her pace is a lot slower...

Over the summer holidays Young Observer will be featuring highlights of the school year in some of our middle and senior schools in our “Year in Review” series Bowled over WIMS thanks AXIS for sponsoring Girls Cricket this year! The season started w...

S3 students at Saltus Grammar School have taken the “service to others” component of the School’s Mission Statement to heart. In Foundation Year, this cohort began sponsoring a young child in Peru named Dylan through World Vision. In sponsoring Dyl...

The four-letter expletive he’d spread across canvas appropriately summed up Calix Smith’s frustration with the education system. He couldn’t believe it when the organisers of a fashion show wouldn’t let him hang it at their event last year. “It was o...

One day, while prefecting in Primary Four, I noticed and observed Miss Zuill assisting a student who was working on a Braille writer. I asked Miss Zuill about Braille and she explained it to me even though she was just learning about it herself. Whi...