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Hurricane Fiona came and went with varying degrees of damage however, the slowing down of growth is an indication of the onset of autumn, Bermuda style. This is when growth stutters along, giving its last fitful spurt before taking the onset of autum...

One of the highlights of the year for Gaëlle Roth is the Bermuda Turtle Project’s annual turtle round-up. For two-weeks every August, D Roth, director of the project, scientists and conservation students, come together to capture, weigh, measure, exa...

As a teenager, Sharon Nannini loved sneaking into her older sister Meredith’s clothes closet. “She was a seamstress and she made beautiful things,” the 75-year-old remembered. “I used to borrow them all the time and put them back before she got home....

For years, Lynnette Davis was known as “the fluoride lady”. Back in the 1970s she had helped the health department launch a dental programme for children. She drove around the island in a van, dispensing fluoride tablets to students. “The children di...

Rudell “RJ” Pitcher has always been passionate about motocross. He was introduced to the sport by his father, Rudell Pitcher, who would take him to Southside where his uncle Jamel Pitcher would race. RJ didn’t start riding until he was four. By the t...

In her early teens, Linda Smith did a lot of goofing off. “All I wanted to do was play,” the 72-year-old remembered. But she still managed to be one of the top three students in her class at Sandys Secondary School. Then the school principal, Dorothy...

As a child, Skye Kermode watched the “mermaids” at work at Bermuda Aquarium, Museum & Zoo and wanted to join in. But when she talked to grown-ups of her aspirations, they all laughed and tried to direct her towards a more realistic career. “It is jus...

Years ago Mohamed Hamza helped a sailor friend who was stranded in Bermuda with a broken mast and without the funds to repair it. A public appeal raised $50,000; the friend went off on his sailboat and, when he hit Guatemala, invited Mr Hamza to pay ...

On hearing the sad news that Queen Elizabeth II had passed away, I got to thinking, among other things, about her beloved dogs — the fabulous corgis that were so often seen accompanying her. It has been announced that her son Prince Andrew and his ex...

Jolene Bean spent almost half a century teaching and loved every minute but in the seven years since she retired, she has sometimes wondered if she should have been an artist instead. The 72-year-old has made jewellery, dolls for her nieces, and “a l...