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Frances-Anne Solomon did not know Ulric Cross’s story but.....the request to make a film about him came from her mother. And so she started on a quest which ultimately led to Hero. It opens the Bermuda International Film Festival on March 20. “The st...

Helen Daley always tried to bring out the best in her students. She was a teacher for more than 40 years and it became her classroom mission. She still has the thank you notes she received from some of her pupils. “I just saw so many possibilities th...

The world watched from the first protest, when an estimated million people took to the streets of Hong Kong unhappy with a plan to allow extraditions to mainland China. The “naïve” hope was that the Government would withdraw the Bill. When that didn’...

Having never been in a relationship herself, the obvious question was how Marilyn Steede was able to write a romance novel. She started working on When Your Body Gets Weak in 1998, and published it in July. “The love story comes from nothing in my ...

Lloyd Williams moved to Nevis and thought it was a good time to try farming. He’d never planted anything in his life but there was a lot more open land there than in Bermuda and agriculture was important to his Bahá’í faith. “I was a city boy,” the ...

Last month, Josette Matthew and other members of United Holy Church, journeyed thousands of miles to Ghana for a two-week mission trip. Once in the West African nation, they learnt the true importance of serving God with whole hearts and open hands. ...

Until six years ago, Michellae Edwards had not heard of myasthenia gravis. She thought the bag of frozen peas the specialist put on her eye would stop it sagging — it turned out to be a test, rather than a treatment. “My eye opened and I thought I wa...

Gloria Frederick has never played a round of golf in her life, but don’t tell her she’s not an expert on the game. When she can’t travel to tournaments, she’s watching on television. Sunday was a very good day. She sat glued to the television as her ...

Ryan Robinson Perinchief got fed up with people talking about issues affecting Bermuda’s youth without including them in the discussion. He was determined to do something about it and launched Future Leaders Bermuda, a programme aimed at getting youn...

Llantrisant, Wales, is a quiet place. Other than a couple of bars and historical landmarks there is not a whole lot to do. And that made it the perfect spot for Owain Johnston to write. He spent March there, penning two full-length plays — Right/Cro...