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Christian singer Patty Fischer spent most of her life performing until one day 14 years ago, when her voice quit. Doctor after doctor named acid reflux as the cause but she didn’t feel they were correct. It wasn’t until nine years later that she saw...

I would like to spread the wonderful news of another Bermudian honoured abroad recently. Rose A. Wilson-Hill, the daughter of Mayville Wilson and the late Rudolph WR Wilson of Southampton, was recognised on October 27 at the Ohio State University. S...

No money for fashion? No problem. Bermudian college students aren’t letting a tight budget stop them from looking good. Morgan Simons, a public relations, advertising and media major at Middle University in London, regularly thinks outside the box w...

Piero Casalicchio was a busy textile designer who often went hungry. He didn’t know how to cook and by the time he got home after a long day’s work, most restaurants in Como, Italy, were closed. The Italian started challenging himself to see what he ...

Tamia Grant doesn’t mind flying through the air for Berkeley Institute’s production of Peter Pan but she’s a little nervous about the singing. The 17-year-old will play the title role in the senior school’s musical next week. “I have to sing a coupl...

There’s supposed to be a pot of gold at the end of every rainbow, if you believe in Irish folklore. St Georgians head to 1 Penno’s Drive for the eastern end of the arc. There you’ll find a small business with a giant reputation: Rubis Dowling’s Marin...

In wine competitions, a wine that rates over 90/100 is awarded a gold medal and ones that score 95 points or higher are often given platinum. Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate comments on the latter: “An extraordinary wine of profound and complex charac...

A final trunk show and then it’s goodbye. Designer Oneka Benn Schwartz is leaving the Island with her family next month. Before that she is unveiling her latest collection of homeware designs at The Island Shop. Table runners and napkin rings, coast...

Kym Whitley has a lot to be thankful for. Four years ago she thought she was being pranked when she got a call saying her baby was waiting to be picked up from the hospital. She was 50. She hadn't given birth and wasn't considering adoption — motherh...

Garita Coddington has been the principal of Francis Patton Primary School since September 2010. Married with two children, she went to Alabama A&M University, where she obtained her master’s of education in chemistry and teacher certification. She al...