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This summer, university student Kameron Young was looking for a challenge.
When the 19-year-old saw a virtual internship advertised by a Colombian tech firm, she thought perfect. There was just one problem. She did not have all of the skills they wer...
DATE: Aug 27, 2021
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Community
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AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
Visiting the Isle of Wight in 1949, Kay Latter wanted to build a sand castle.
“I was probably about seven,” the 79 year old said. “There was a lovely, sandy beach, but it was so full of litter that I could not build a sand castle. I was digging up tr...
DATE: Aug 25, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Community
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AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
People often crane their necks as they drive past Robert ‘Ice Water’ Smith’s house on Vesey Street in Devonshire.
They are not looking for him; they are checking out the clock on his balcony. It is not a particularly big clock, or a fancy one, but it...
DATE: Aug 18, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Community
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AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
Rotarians dug into their pockets to bring a shelter for homeless women and their children a step closer to completion.
Sandys Rotary Club donated $10,000 to Habitat for Humanity Bermuda for the Transformational Living Centre on Parsons Road in Pembro...
DATE: Aug 16, 2021
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Community
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A weed is a plant that is considered undesirable, or simply a plant that is in the wrong place.
The adage one year’s seeding equals seven years’ weeding, has a great ring of the truth; simply observing growth these last several months leads me to thi...
DATE: Aug 16, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Community
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AUTHOR:
Malcolm Griffiths
What is it to take a picture? Often, it is an attempt to capture a memory, an important moment, or perhaps, just something fun. More often these days it is to freeze in time a vision of ourselves, as we like to see us, and to share that image with ...
DATE: Aug 12, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Community
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AUTHOR:
Nina London
Growing up on Cox’s Hill, Pembroke, Wilma Frith longed to become a nurse.
“When I was playing with my dolls, they were always my patients,” the 85-year-old remembered.
But she had to wait a long time to see her dream become reality.
After high scho...
DATE: Aug 11, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Community
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AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
The Bermuda Zoological Society recently completed its ninth year of the Kids on the Reef programme, which is generously sponsored by AXA XL. This year, the BZS sent Megan Dodd, a university student studying strategic communications and marketing, out...
DATE: Aug 07, 2021
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Community
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Seventy years after their wedding day and Kenneth Simmons still describes his wife Gloria as his true love match.
“I have the feeling it was sort of meant to be,” the 95-year-old said. “Everything sort of fell in place for us to be married but the ma...
DATE: Jul 23, 2021
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Community
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Bermuda, with a landmass of 21 square miles and a population of around 63,000 can, in most areas, hold its head high.
Covid has been damaging to the economy and Bermudians have suffered in numerous ways. Thankfully, we are surrounded by the ocean, an...
DATE: Jul 19, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Community
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AUTHOR:
Malcolm Griffiths