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“We all overestimate change over one year and underestimate it over five years.” Martin Gilbert, chairman Asset Co PLC As we continue our discussion this week on the theme of unfinished business I have another exceedingly controversial question for y...

There is very little to get excited about in the garden during the month of November except for the fact that maintenance is a continuing exercise. If we are to keep the ambience of the garden ticking over, we must continue to give everything our att...

It’s the 1990s: Bermuda is a generous community. Charitable giving, tag days and raffles abound because everyone wants to help people “less fortunate than ourselves”. And most people are fortunate: visitors flock to the island by boat and by air, enc...

One subscriber at a time – that’s Mark Wynne's plan for sharing the beauty of Bermuda's reefs with the world. About a year ago he and Holly Wakely launched Blue Horizon Diving, a YouTube channel that shows weekly episodes of scuba diving around the i...

Willem Mulder loves painting, but laughs about his actual talent. “I was amazed,” he said. “Last year two of my paintings sold in the Warwick Academy Art Auction. One went for $25 and one went for $75.” He had his first lesson as an adult at the Berm...

For every Hallowe’en in the past 20-odd years Calvin Simons has turned his house into a spectacle and opened it up to his neighbourhood. Like everyone else he had to pause in 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic but by the time October rolled aro...

My favourite view of Bermuda is from the air. When I take off or land I feel a deep thrill as the endless canvas of the blue ocean stretches before me and, flung across it, the glittering chain of our small islands so far from the distant horizon. ...

In 1953 Anne Hines became the first Bermudian to successfully dance en pointe in public. She did it at the Colonial Opera House on Victoria Street where she played the dying swan in Swan Lake. “My friend was supposed to do it,” the 82-year-old said. ...

The aged Pembroke Rest Home building on Parsons Road had sat empty for 12 years. Its floors and ceilings were falling in and the wiring and plumbing needed a complete overhaul. Edward Fox, a civil service engineer, who sits on the board of Habitat f...

It wasn’t Joy Wilson-Tucker's idea to establish the Bermudian Heritage Museum or to place it in St George's but somehow, all the responsibility of running it has fallen on her shoulders. At 79, she cannot carry the load much longer. Getting to 29 Wat...