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In 1953 Anne Hines became the first Bermudian to successfully dance en pointe in public. She did it at the Colonial Opera House on Victoria Street where she played the dying swan in Swan Lake. “My friend was supposed to do it,” the 82-year-old said. ...

A charitable club has made cash donations to three nursing homes as part of its public service work. Marlene Christopher, the first vice-president and past president of Hamilton Lions Club, said Lions Club International had a tradition of using a day...

Jill Amos Raine has painted and sold art in St George's since 1975. So it made sense to her, when her husband David died in 2004, to sell their Devonshire property and move to Convict Bay. “People told me not to make any major decisions for the firs...

Only two months before Zakiya Francis-Jones was due to give birth, she lost her job. As hard as she tried she could not find a new one and having once been homeless did not want to find her way there again. She was terrified she would not be able to ...

Ruth Ann Lambe loves a good celebration. The 82-year-old is usually the one to organise the parties and get-togethers in the family. One of the most memorable was her and her husband Vernon's 59th wedding anniversary celebration – in 2018 the couple ...

A British MP whose life was claimed in a knife attack on Friday was a champion for plans by a Bermuda charity to open a dedicated dementia care centre. Sir David Amess, Conservative MP for Southend West in Essex, was also chairman of the Britain...

Chances are, if you have been stuck in a queue outside Perot Post Office waiting to get tested for Covid-19, you'll have heard Robert Symons play. He has been there with his steel pans since June, performing four days a week. The 70-year-old is cert...

The Government has released a series of dementia help cards designed to help people with the condition. Tinee Furbert, the Minister of Social Development and Seniors, said the cards contained basic information about the holder, such as their name and...

Mary Johnson is not fussed by the expected Christmas tree shortage this year – she has not taken her faux one down from last December. “I just couldn’t be bothered,” said the 81-year-old who needed the cheer she got from seeing the lively ornaments; ...

In her 40s Jeannie Olander decided she wanted to study culinary arts at the Bermuda College. But, despite many queries, they refused to accept her. “I loved to cook,” she said. “I kept asking if they would take mature students and they kept saying no...

Six care homes and 14 daycare centres have been affected in the latest wave of coronavirus infections, a Government spokeswoman said. She added that a dozen of the childcare facilities had closed. Kim Wilson, the Minister of Health, said on Sunday th...

David Ker has been charming visitors at the St George’s Historical Society for 24 years. The replica 18th-century press in the basement of Mitchell House on Duke of Kent Street is his baby. The 79-year-old loves demonstrating how the press once worke...