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A memorial service to honour former slave and ship’s pilot James “Jemmy” Darrell was held in St George’s at the weekend. Mr Darrell piloted the Royal Navy warship HMS Resolution to its mooring near Tobacco Bay in 1795 while still enslaved. Royal Navy...

Lucille Spencer fits a bit of exercise into every morning. She touches her toes and stretches; if there is music on, she will dance. The 95-year-old thinks her efforts are one of the reasons she has aged well — most people assume she is years younger...

Dear Sir, Ira Philip, “boss” as I affectionately called him, meant so much to Bermudians, especially black Bermudians, that this tribute alone cannot do him justice. During the days when black Bermudians owned radio stations, a weekly newspaper, and ...

Bermudian Jay Butler won a top prize from the American Society of International Law. Mr Butler, a professor with William and Mary Law School in Virginia, was awarded the Francis Lieber Prize for the most outstanding article published in 2017 in the f...

A copy of a painting of the late Jacqueline Swan has been unveiled in a West End seniors’ home where she served as a board member for more than two decades. Gary Pitman, chairman of the board for the Packwood Home, said Lady Swan was an “amazing wom...

We share so much more than we think. Milton Raposo is so certain of this, he aims to capture it on video. Inspired by a Danish commercial that addressed a similar theme, he’s looking for roughly 50 people for Saturday’s shoot at the Ruth Seaton James...

It is in times of crisis that we really see people coming together. With that in mind, Helen Orchard is hoping for a hurricane. She has pulled together a growing list of 30 businesses and charities for Walk Together Bermuda after being inspired by N...

A family paddleboarding close to Flatts Inlet got more than they bargained for when a hammerhead shark swam between their boards. Julie Compton and her husband, Jim, were heading to Gibbet Island when they spotted a fin sticking out of the water. The...

The prime minister’s private secretary isn’t quite what he seems. A yes-man in public, in reality Bernard Woolley is anything but. James Knell will take on the role in the Bermuda Musical & Dramatic Society’s production of Yes, Prime Minister next we...

It’s just hair. At least that’s what Karen Plianthos told herself. Her tresses were worth more to her off than on. She raised $8,396 when she shaved her head in the name of childhood cancer, an event she called a “complete success”. “I would never co...

Wind. How do you take advantage of the wind at your back? We all know that a tailwind can drive an aeroplane forward faster than if it is fighting a headwind. That is what sometimes gets us to our destination faster. What is the tailwind that you us...

Gina Thompson started face painting, certain she had all the popular characters down pat. Then a little boy asked for Barney. “I couldn’t remember for the life of me what Barney looked like,” she said of the Tyrannosaurus rex whose television show, ...