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Latoya Thomas-Bridgewater has a message for Bermuda: tell our history and all the rest will fall into place. She’s talking about African history in particular. The social worker feels it holds the key to “understanding our behaviour and [the necessa...

Liz Spalding had two daughters back to back — and then bought a chicken farm. She and her husband, Neville, hadn’t yet been married five years. Needless to say, they were interesting times. “We had about 3,500 birds,” she said. “We didn’t know a thin...

Injuries are a nightmare for athletes. William DeSilva was relatively new to running when the pain set in. He easily treated the bursitis in his hip with a short break from exercise, but the inflammation in his left Achilles that came later refused ...

The pawpaw has dominated the Smith family’s dinner table since last year when they began work on a joint cookbook project centred around the fruit. Pawpaw Bermuda, created by Edwin Smith, his wife Shirley Ann and their sons Micrae and Stefan, contai...

Al Seymour held an exhibit of his art as part of his 85th birthday celebrations last year. Arranged on the sly by his daughter, Lisa Pace, she then made a proposal that surprised him even further: they could hold a show together. “I said, ‘Why don’t ...

James Small started life in a staunchly Christian family in rural South Carolina. In his twenties he became an Imam working with Ella Collins, the sister of Malcolm X. At 74, he’s a Pan-African activist, scholar and speaker and a Yoruba priest. “God ...

For 34 years Leroy “Lofty” Burns was a driver for St Brendan’s Hospital, ferrying children who were patients. He remembers it as one of the best jobs he ever had. “I loved working with the children,” he said. “A lot of them called me ‘Daddy’ or ‘Uncl...

Why is archaeology so white? It’s a rhetorical question posed by black archaeologists over the decades; Bermudian Catherine Draycott is leading a discussion here on why so few people of colour get involved in her field. She will speak this week as pa...

Two popular and qualified bridge teachers, Bill Pollett and Charles Hall, will be starting a new series of Beginners Lessons at the Bridge Club on Tuesday October 15. The lessons are suitable for those who have never played bridge before and for thos...

Carly Stong’s yoga class isn’t for waifs. The 33-year-old describes herself as “bigger-bodied” and planned a programme with similar-sized people in mind. “If someone says they don’t identify as bigger-bodied, but wants to come to a class anyway, the ...