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West Pembroke Primary Eco-Club met on Monday at lunchtime. Present at the meeting was Abbie Caldas, Greenrock’s schools programme manager, and Sylvia Hayward, community member assessor for Greenrock. About 20 students and their Eco-Club co-ordinato...

“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children” — Navajo proverb An international programme from the Foundation for Environmental Education, the Eco-Schools initiative aims to empower students to be the change our su...

Abbie Caldas, the schools programme manager for Greenrock, invited Young Observer to join her at West Pembroke Primary School to learn about what it means and why schools are striving to become Eco-Schools in Bermuda. In its 20th year around the wor...

Dani Buglione had good grades in school but struggled to express herself outside of class. Then she discovered acting. “It was like this whole different world opened up to me,” the 14-year-old Saltus Grammar School student said. “One of my first part...

Kathlyn Dyer had to rely on old-fashioned elbow grease for a good part of her life. She had two choices if she wanted to get somewhere: walk or pedal. It wasn’t until she’d had her seventh child that she got a washing machine; prior to that she had w...

Sharon Speir is the assistant director for early childhood education at the Department of Education. She is responsible for the education of children up to the age of 8, which includes the Child Development Programme, Bermuda Government Preschools, a...

The Warwick Academy Eco-Club is a student-based committee that aims to make positive contributions to the environment and educate Warwick Academy students about healthy living, sustainability, climate change and environmentally friendly technologies,...

Friends thought DeeDee Cooper had the perfect life: a budding acting career and a wonderful boyfriend. In reality, the 20-year-old was a mess, physically and mentally abused by the supposed love of her life. The American author and motivator recently...

In today’s frenetic world, even children sometimes long for peace and quiet. Nathaniel Thomas tried to skip a tennis lesson three weeks ago because he wanted to learn how to meditate. The six-year-old didn’t inform anyone ahead of time; he just wande...

If the Bermuda scenes don’t grab your attention, the music likely will. Runners Natalie Dyrli, Anna Laura Hocking, Nicole Andreasen, Emma Norman and Whitney Iuliano are Spice Girls characters in a fundraising video that’s had more than 1,000 views an...