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Wallace Lee knew he didn’t stand a chance at winning the online modelling competition, but he was desperate for publicity. He had been writing novels for years, the costs associated with self-publishing were high — and his books were not selling. Th...

Raguel Dill was 13 when he learnt he was a foster child. The revelation shook his world to its core. “I became unhappy and angry at my parents most of the time,” the 17-year-old said. “I had gone all that time convinced they were my real parents an...

Bermudian Kaiias-Gianni D’Marco Clarke is making his way as an actor in London. The teenager will play a zombie in Case Files, a science fiction miniseries scheduled for UK television. Breaking into the acting world is something he has been working t...

Bermudian students Alexa Manuel and James Patterson considered heading straight to university after high school. A Class Afloat programme changed their minds. The two 18-year-olds will embark on the adventure of a lifetime when they board a 500-ton...

Children are the same, the world over. That’s what Nadia Khan learnt from a summer spent teaching in Thailand. “I thought there would be more cultural differences,” said the 31-year-old teacher. “With my own students at Somersfield Academy, they ofte...

Lizz Pimentel tends to think outside the box. So, although it was an unusual request, she leaped at the chance to train US students alongside her own at In Motion School of Dance. Six dancers from the Mid Maryland Performing Arts Centre are now here,...

Andreas Ratteray thought he was the smartest thing in the ocean, until he met some sharks. The 20-year-old had a close call this summer, while touring the Pacific with the Sea Education Association. “I am a pretty short dude and I was with two othe...

When Jayson Jackson tells people he’s getting a degree in turf grass science, he gets a lot of strange looks. “It’s not a degree people hear [about] every day,” the 23-year-old winner of the Hibiscus Garden Club scholarship said. “Even at university...

Tiffany Paynter has a month to raise $25,000.It’s the final step in a huge effort by the 30-year-old to get her degree from Queen’s University.She dropped out of the Canadian institution after her family ran into financial difficulties in 2005. Schol...

Booking a date with actor David Hasselhoff is easier than you think. That is what 24-year-old Kharis Brooks learnt during an internship with a British cellphone company, Vodafone. “It started as a joke,” Ms Brooks said. “We were planning a campaign ...