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I know what Rumpelstiltskin did when his spinning straw into gold deal went bust, he started a line of children’s socks and sweaters. These things have to be stitched by someone with a heart of stone. I was thinking this standing in a department stor...

Reserve police officer Sandra Beach last night became the first woman to take up the post of commandant of the Bermuda Reserve Police. Ms Beach was sworn in at a change of command ceremony held at the police headquarters in Prospect. “Throughout hi...

A well-respected Bermudian horseman who worked his way up to the top of the United States thoroughbred ladder has died at his home in Tennessee. Gary Pimentel was 66 when he passed away last month. His family and friends will gather at St Mark’s Chur...

Women only hold 15.7 per cent of top leadership positions in Fortune 500 companies. This statistic is being highlighted by activists involved in the ‘Day of the Girl’, a global movement raising awareness about the many inequalities females face. Whi...

The new head boy at Berkeley Institute has given students something to feel good about: Azendé Furbert is very much one of their own. “Normally it’s always the smartest person that applies for head boy,” Azendé explained. “I thought that if I applied...

Tiffanne Thomas became a counsellor because she wanted to make a difference. Despite her best efforts however, the 34-year-old never felt she was doing enough. “I felt I wasn’t really living up to my full capacity,” she said. “I felt pulled to do mor...

It was a year since her mother died and Bernice Zaft-Gibbons wasn’t over it. Waves of grief and anger would suddenly hit her, particularly around birthdays and anniversaries. It was especially difficult as her relationship with her mother hadn’t alw...

Beginnings and endings should always dovetail in any well-constructed drama. And there was a touch of theatrical symmetry involved as family and friends gathered in Bermuda last week to pay their final respects to Diana Douglas. Held on the very eve...

Hafid James was optimistic when he took the stage for a bodybuilding competition in Mexico in 2013. He’d won the event just a year prior and believed he’d put in enough work to take home another trophy. Things didn’t go as planned. He placed fifth...

Dorothy Packwood, an artist and educator credited with guiding the Island’s first definitive histories of slavery in Bermuda, has died at the age of 93. The wife of the late historian Cyril Packwood, Mrs Packwood was “a woman born before her time”, r...

It was a tough couple of days for the crews up in Dockyard as they prepared to secure more than 200 boats ahead of Hurricane Joaquin. A team who work for Spar Yard/West End Yachts endured soaking wet, windy conditions as they hauled vessels out of t...

The windy weekend blew in an extra surprise for expecting parents Dmitry Ledyaev and Sabrina Chasseriauds. Their son and first child, Roman Louis Dmitrievich Ledyaev, was born right as Hurricane Joaquin was edging past and battering the Island. Roman...