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The nursery was filled with junk, unnecessary plastic toys that served no purpose. Forty children, all between the ages of 3 and 6, had the rule of the roost. They were having the time of their lives, running around and screaming; their teachers stru...

Carlos Symonds loves making students look at things from a fresh perspective. This is partly what drew him to Somersfield Academy. According to the 58-year-old, he especially loves that the Devonshire school “honours diversity and celebrates differen...

After a week in rural Honduras, Sophie Froud has a new appreciation for indoor plumbing. Outhouses were the norm in the remote villages she visited, and there was no running water. “When I got to Miami on my way back to Bermuda on Sunday it was a rea...

Nicolas Plianthos does not like zoos. It’s the animals that put him off. “They don’t belong there,” he said. “They belong in the wild. You should not be able to go to Florida and see a lion. If you want to see a lion, lions exist in Africa.” Documen...

Berne Furbert is not your average stage mother. When the opportunity to enter her daughter Desi-Amor Furbert Mallory in a modelling competition arose, she saw it as a way for her daughter to make friends. “It’s not about winning. I had a talk with h...

When Sarai Hines started teaching in England, the system bewildered her. From grading to student classification, everything was different. Then the 22-year-old realised she had an advantage ­— her own island culture. “We all forget what we have to b...

Rosemarie Kley has her Bermuda “rituals”. She wears a T-shirt purchased the trip before on every flight to the island. And she’s a regular at Coco Reef Resort, where she always stays in the same room. The New Jersey resident has been to the island 38...

When Yushae DeSilva-Andrade isn’t playing boccia, she is knitting. The 22-year-old, who will compete at the Paralympics next month, trains “five to six days a week, three hours a day”, and uses the hobby to wind down. “It keeps me calm after doing a...

The ink was barely dry on their marriage certificate when Charles and Ann Mulraine moved to Bermuda. It was 1962. They were fresh out of university and ready to start new lives together. The couple spent three idyllic years here before returning to ...

Sam Archer and his wife, Steph Elstob Archer, danced circles around each other for years. They moved in the same ring of London’s dance community for a decade before they met at famed London theatre Sadler’s Wells. The couple will perform together fo...