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Gil Tucker was the only black student in his class throughout his years at Saltus Grammar School. Both welcomed and teased, he refused to let anyone set limits on him. At Harrington Sound Primary School, where he’d studied earlier, he’d been inspire...

Quinton DeShield moved to Angola to start a business, but soon got distracted by a cause. Bothered by the piles of trash on the beaches outside Luanda, the capital city of the southern African nation, he decided to put “planet over profit”. With the...

Businesswomen Susan Pateras-Maybury and Suzanne Khan have launched The Art of You, a movement to help women become their best selves. The Art of You’s first event, a three-day women’s transformation series, will be held from March 20 to 22 at the Elb...

Joyce Watlington arrived in Bermuda in 1953 and decided she was never going back to Montreal. Friends of her parents had invited her and her sister Muriel to stay with them in St George’s — they couldn’t believe their luck. “We were going to find job...

When David Roberts got a job in Bermuda in 1970, he was told not to worry about the racial tension he had heard about. The British journalist had been inundated with tales of mini riots staged by the Black Beret Cadre in protest against black inequal...

For years Calvin Ming Jr marched with the Salvation Army Band in the annual Remembrance Day parade. But in 1992, he found himself sidelined. At 44, his heart was failing fast due mostly to congenital issues. He had been putting off a heart transplan...

Ryan Sulley has always had a beard, but five months ago decided to let it grow wild. Complete strangers stop him in the street to say they like it — he does not. “It’s horrible,” he said. “It is a lot of work to make sure it is not disgusting. I sha...

The Bermuda Economic Development Corporation was this morning celebrating the success of a Christmas programme designed to spread holiday spending more evenly around Bermuda. The BEDC revealed that during their 24-day Christmas shop to draw initiati...

In kindergarten Jeanie Flath was told she would never learn to read. Dyslexic, she suffered through years of remedial classes until age 12 when she mastered the skill. When the late Jasen Moniz invited her to join her book club years later, Mrs Flat...

When Frances Smith started fitness business Actively Aging the hardest part was just finding clients. The 24-year-old’s target customers — older people, weren’t on social media the way her own generation was. In the end, what worked was good, old-fa...