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Florenz Maxwell has been dealt the surprise of finding herself “royalty”, alongside Lady Lully Gibbons and Olga Scott, in a tribute by Project Action. “I thought I had passed the stage where anybody could pull something over me,” Ms Maxwell told The ...

Fifty years ago, Joan and Gordon Stevenson sealed their love for each other — and Bermuda. Although originally from Scotland, they started a new life in Canada after they married in the summer of 1967. Bermuda was the antidote to the homesickness cau...

This weekend, I won a gold medal. Yes, you read that right, a GOLD medal in the Bermuda Open Karate Championships. The astonishment and delight here is that the only other sporting award I’ve ever won was an ‘I Participated’ ribbon for a 5K fun run —...

We are all familiar with the phrase, “just do it”. Yesterday, I was preparing to run and noticed that I was out of water. Immediately, thoughts of running later came to mind, however I realised that “later” might never happen. So, I decided to go ah...

Monique Lightbourne-Cook donated her kidney to save her mother’s life. She ended up saving three, including her own. Hypertension put Penny Cook on dialysis for eight years. It seemed a new kidney would never come through. Finally, Marianne Herbert...

Back stage. For many months I have been involved, with many others, in a major redevelopment of the backstage operations in a technology company. This has taken many months of planning, research, and the use of experts to assist in us in making the b...

Dear Heather, We have signed a contract to buy a house. When we first saw it, before signing the agreement, there were two refrigerators. One was in the kitchen and one was in the basement. The real estate agent told us that both refrigerators would ...

For Conor Outerbridge, capturing his everyday life on film is practice for the future. The 20-year-old former Warwick Academy and Saltus Grammar School student wants to make documentaries and movies one day and spends a good part of every day either ...

Dear Dr Nekia, My girl is always comparing our situation to her girlfriends’ situations. I’m sick of her always giving me grief about what her friends have or what their dudes do and don’t do. No man wants to be compared to another guy, and I’m feeli...

Barbara Millett, a dedicated upholsterer, quiet philanthropist and mentor to young Bermudian women, has died at the age of 80. Over the decades, Mrs Millett mastered a once classic traditional craft, becoming inseparably associated with her upholster...

Cancer “knocked the hell” out of Jon Beard’s life. It took his wife, Jennie, in 2009 and then his father, Ray. In 2014, Mr Beard found out he had prostate cancer, the disease that had killed his father the year before. “It was disconcerting to develo...

Imagine. For those who watch a range of sporting events you will recall that there are many times when an athlete is preparing to perform we hear the word “visualisation” used to describe that preparation. How many of you, when assessing options or ...