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“A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance” (Proverbs 15:13) “A merry heart doeth good like a medicine” (Proverbs 17:22) Dear Sir, Johnny Barnes is known and promoted nationally as Bermuda’s “Ambassador of Good Cheer”. In the year 2005, I had the ...

Bermuda will today bid farewell to local legend Johnny “Mr Happy” Barnes, whose funeral will be streamed live online this afternoon at johnnybarnes.net. Mr Barnes, who spent decades greeting morning commuters with a smile and a wave from the Crow L...

A senior lawyer at Appleby has made the shortlist for the prestige Powerwoman Awards. Vanessa Schrum, partner and group head of the firm’s private client and trusts practice, has been nominated for the woman of the year award in the leadership profe...

After years of helping others get medical help, grassroots activist Cleveland Simmons is turning to the public for assistance of his own. “I’ve been so busy looking after people, I haven’t been able to take care of myself,” Mr Simmons told The Royal ...

After her husband died in 2013, Sharon Smith-Apopa learnt one of her most trying life lessons: tomorrow isn’t promised so be grateful for what God has given you today. Back then the local author never got the chance to thank her husband, Thomas, for ...

A local restaurant owner has described his terror as he and his family fled the devastation of Thursday night’s truck attack in Nice. Chef Jean-Claude Garzia, who owns Beau Rivage, was on holiday when he found himself in the middle of a “massacre” t...

Although the 2.9 million acres of vineyards planted in Spain is more than in any other country its actual wine production lags behind France and Italy. This is explained by the facts that the vines are planted further apart and quite infertile soil...

Andrew Roberts often joked about getting roped into Rotary. With his father and grandfather past presidents of the St George’s club, the outcome seemed inevitable. For years he put it off, and then dived in headfirst. The 36-year-old was named the ch...

I’ve made a wonderful mistake. My twins have been finding it difficult to settle after they feed at night, so I let them fall asleep listening to my heartbeat. Good idea, right? I mean, what’s the worst that could happen? It’s not like they’d get com...

Fiona Beckerlegge spent six years helping Bermuda’s children thrive. As a community physiotherapist for the Department of Health, she visited the island’s primary schools to assess students’ motor skills and muscle development and assist those with ...

A networking session for women in business is to be held at the official residence of the US Consul General. Mary Ellen Koenig, the American representative in Bermuda, has teamed up with the Bermuda Chamber of Commerce to bring Monica Dodi, the co-fo...

Holiday!” The words of Madonna’s 1983 classic keep running through my head. I write this from the Azores on a deck chair looking back across the Atlantic, a belly full of lapas and fresh cheese, surrounded by post-Euro victory buzz. A week of natura...