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The winner of the 16th annual Famous for 15 Minutes playwriting contest will be named at Daylesford Theatre tonight. The rules state that plays are judged only on the quality of the scripts. Direction, acting and performance may bring them to life bu...

Two years ago, God called on Shannel Burrows to write a book. She admits she was “scared” — she knew nothing about publishing companies or writing styles. But, she put her faith in Him. “The process was tough at first because I didn’t really understa...

Time is running out to sign up for the Bridge Club Summer Party — at which no Bridge will be played! That would not have happened in my day. Here is a recent bulletin from the Committee to whet your appetite. A reminder about the “Bridge Club Summer ...

Her mom Rosalyn gave her some paper dolls and, at 7, Rochelle Minors found her dream job. Designing, colouring and cutting would keep her busy for hours. Then came the thrill of seeing how her outfits looked on her ‘models’. Swirl, her collection at ...

When purchasing TVs, cereal or cars most of us happily accept well-known producers like Samsung, Kellogg’s or Kia. When it comes to wine, however, there often seems to be a desire to seek small, boutique, or new producers. There is nothing wrong wit...

Charda Simons was beyond thrilled when judges at the Bermuda Fashion Festival announced that Street Lux, her line of “luxury urban streetwear”, was going to New York Fashion Week. It was an unexpected win for the 26-year-old, who had limited design e...

For the summer holidays, Young Observer will be featuring highlights of the schoolyear in our senior schools. This week, we salute Mount Saint Agnes.

Mandy-Suzanne Wong thought the e-mail claiming someone wanted to publish her novel was a hoax. She’d sent copies of Drafts of a Suicide Note to at least 100 publishing companies — not one was interested, but then Regal House weighed in. “I stopped co...

Jennifer Haworth will always be grateful to her brother-in-law, Simon. With kidney failure looming and no donor in sight, he offered his own. “I had assumed that the donor had to be a blood relative, but it doesn’t,” the 37-year-old said. “A match is...

The stroke came in the early hours of the morning. Velinda Rolle could have panicked on May 6, but the Bermudian trusted that God would save Edward, her Bahamian husband of 29 years. Doctors later confirmed that the former Spanish teacher at St Georg...