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The article last week on “doubles” seemed to resonate with a lot of you, so thanks for the many comments — I will do another one sometime discussing negative doubles, penalty doubles, support doubles and even SOS redoubles to help you sharpen your bi...

Michelle Simmons’s book, The Guild of the Good Shepherd and Bermuda’s Forgotten Anglican Missionaries, could not have come at a better time. As one may expect based on its name, it chronicles the birth of the Guild movement in Bermuda and the lives ...

Most men are too embarrassed to talk about erectile dysfunction; Jeff MacLeod is starting the conversation for them. Of great concern to the physician is that it’s a problem affecting “relatively young, healthy men”, some of whom go without sex for y...

After battling her way through ovarian cancer, Nancy Wainwright has a message for women over 50: monitor your body for change, no matter how subtle. At 55, she started suffering from abdominal pain, acid reflux, bloating and low energy. Doctors ran a...

Meliseanna Gibbons suited up in PPE, walked into the ICU at Wyckoff Heights Medical Centre and bravely faced the unknown. It was March 14 and in a special, pressurised room lay an 82-year-old woman with Covid-19. Medical staff believed that she had d...

From missionaries in Africa to slave owners in America and throughout the British Empire — how do we reconcile a history of slavery, oppression and segregation with the message of love, hope and salvation that Christianity promotes? This is a questi...

Doubling at bridge is always a troublesome area, particularly for beginners and intermediates, who often will either take another bid or pass without doubling even when it is clear that the opponents are way too high in the bidding. This week’s colum...

Regulars on Delta Air Lines nicknamed the smiling attendant that welcomed them “Bermuda Bev”. For 41 years the three-hour flight between the island and Atlanta was the only one Bev Oakes would do. John Gullon and Keith Adams were among the ground cr...

Quaezjon Bean did not want to enter the competition, but the grand prize was a tablet that he knew his five-year-old sister, Qualiia, would love. There was also something in the Bermuda Youth Library Summer Reading Programme for him: new books and th...

With their numbers on the rise, the hunt for lionfish is on. Expect to see people with diving masks on and spears in hand as they search the island’s reefs for the predators over the coming days. Lifeguard Townsend Jackson organised a two-week cull ...