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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...

Balancing work with motherhood isn’t easy. Kim Dismont Robinson was thrilled when she was offered a spot at CaribLit, a fiction-editing workshop in Guyana. She’d been selected from 40 applicants based on her work editing several anthologies published...

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...

Feeling low? Sick and tired of carrying the same old baggage? Karen Simons spoke with Lifestyle about the life boost she’s offering next weekend. The specialist in metaphysical healing and transpersonal therapy will help people to find the thoughts...

Tiffany Austin only signed up for Argus’s fitness programme because she thought she might win a trip. It was a fair mistake, the eight-week challenge the insurance group was offering was called European Expedition. Ms Austin was disappointed to learn...

Channa James loved her naturally curly hair but the products she used left it dry and brittle. Fed up, she started gathering herbs and plants from around the island and created her own range of supplies: Eco Diva. The 17-year-old sells a natural hai...

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...

Dear HeatherI see more lots of land coming on to the market for sale. We are thinking of buying property, what are the advantages and disadvantages of buying a lot versus an older home that needs renovating?To Build or Not to BuildDear to Build or No...