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Roberta Alvarez had to leave Bermuda to get the education she wanted for her dyslexic daughter. Olivia was six when doctors confirmed the difficulties she had with reading, spelling and writing were due to the learning disorder. Her parents hired a ...

Sabrina Heyns laboured for 36 hours, had two failed epidurals, general anaesthesia and an emergency caesarean section. So when nurses handed over her day-old daughter, Sophia, on October 24, Mrs Heyns didn’t feel able to cope. “I was afraid the baby ...

Jackie Costello is a girl on a mission to break the stigma attached to mental illness. It’s a cause that hits close to home for the 15-year-old. Growing up with an uncle with paranoid schizophrenia, the Somersfield Academy student saw the challenges...

Apryl Jackson was overwhelmed when she first transferred to Warwick Academy. She was 14 and struggled to fit in. “I felt out of place and acted out negatively,” Miss Jackson, now 23, said. “I was often in trouble.” In stepped teacher Jessica Bowdle...

Sheamar Simmons will always remember Wales as the place he discovered his passion for life. The 17-year-old was one of six local students on an Outward Bound expedition in the UK in August. Selina Whitter, Amy Palmer, Savannah Loder, Jessica Godfre...

Renee Lawrence first noticed there was something different about her son in primary school. Jordan could not focus on a task and was always disrupting the class. She assumed he needed more discipline. Then she learnt he had attention deficit hyperac...

Caroline Aberhart arrived in Bermuda four years ago, with $11 in her pocket. Somehow she’d lost her wallet on the long journey from her native New Zealand. On the plus side, she had a job she relished. The clinical pharmacist is promoting her career ...

Chelsea Smith’s family moved five times when she was growing up. She changed schools every time they moved. Each time there were new friends to make and new routines to learn. “The experience was stressful,” said the 38-year-old. “Although I didn’t l...

The reinsurance industry didn’t fit the bill for Hayley Evans. Law and accounting were similarly unappealing careers. She was a secondary student at Saltus Grammar School when everything fell into place. “I was drawn to the sciences and really liked ...

‘Slight Fright’ is just five minutes long but at the moment it is Al Seymour Jr’s cinematic masterpiece. If you’ve watched ‘Goosebumps’ at the Liberty Theatre, you have most likely seen the 18-year-old’s big screen debut. The short film shows immedia...