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A lawyer is on a mission to inspire black girls and women around the world. Shaunté Simons, 25, started a blog last September and now she has more than 75,000 followers around the world. Ms Simons said she launched Black, Beautiful and Blessed in a b...

At 15, Letitia Washington started writing “steamy” romance novels. Although the stories were mainly for her friends’ entertainment, she used a pen name, Brooklyn Knight, to give them a legitimate ring. “Everyone knew it was me,” she said. It was sill...

In 2015, Keeon Minors said goodbye to family, friends and everything familiar, and moved to Panama. It had been his retirement dream. The temperate climate, easy access to other countries and lower cost of living were all appealing. So in his mid-30s...

Friendliness, pink sand and milkshakes at the Spot Restaurant are just a few of the things Levidia Daba misses about Bermuda. She left the island for Wellington, New Zealand, just over a year ago after her husband Musa, the former minister of St Mark...

Author David Chapman, and the stars of his Daddy and I Explore series of books, will sign copies of the tales at the weekend. Dr Chapman wrote about his experiences exploring the environment with his “environaut” children in five books from 2007 to 2...

Lisa Bishop never outgrew her childhood love of fairytale princesses. Ms Bishop said that “princesses and Disney have always been a big part of my life”. But the author’s children’s books, which she will sign tomorrow at the Bookmart in Brown & Co in...

The Neptune Cinema at Dockyard has closed and its former operators, who also manage the Liberty Theatre, are now putting their focus on the Hamilton venue. The cinema in Dockyard had suffered from declining audience numbers in recent years, according...

In the genealogical records of Bermuda, a new entry will be made for November 15, 2018, for that is the day that the eminent genealogist and historian Clara Frances Edith Hallett (née Gilbert), of Canada and later Bermuda, passed on to meet her maker...

A Bermudian writer has penned a novel based on the real-life exploits of underwater treasure hunter Teddy Tucker. Andrew Outerbridge’s book, The Vigilant, centres on the discovery of the wreck of a privateer’s ship loaded with riches and Robert Tucke...

For Val Sherwood, the biggest challenge to writing a book about cats, was the cats themselves. When she first started, her eight cats miaowed, circled and jumped on the keyboard whenever she sat down to write. “I kept telling them they are all going ...

Community activist Gina Spence has returned to the radio with a new weekly show. Ms Spence is hosting Strength for the Journey on HOTT 107.5 on Sunday evenings, which she promises will be educational, inspirational and entertaining. She said it was a...

Frank Morgan felt very much alone when he moved to Bermuda. He wasn’t working and he didn’t know anyone except his wife, whose days were filled with her reinsurance job. Writing proved his salvation. Mr Morgan poured all his loneliness into the fanta...