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When Austin Riley started racing go-karts, he never imagined it would bring him to Bermuda. He was 7 and only agreed to try the sport after his father pleaded with him to do so. “All right,” Austin said, “I’ll do one lap around the track and then we...

The bark of an endangered African tree might prove a salvation for men with enlarged prostates. Bermudian Quincy Burgess has certainly bought into the theory. He started shipping the herbal remedy pygeum to the island from Africa two months ago. He ...

Charo Hollis loved singing but couldn’t get out of the shadow of her talented mother, Alice Lowe Green. She would hear the whispers whenever she got on stage: “That’s Alice’s daughter.” It made it difficult for her to make her own way; for a very lon...

Lunch service had only just begun when the bread rolls ran out. Hungry patrons buzzed with irritation, before a young waitress appeared. “Don’t worry we’ve met a snag, more rolls will be coming shortly,” she told them, a little nervously. The diners ...

Zuri Darrell knew next to nothing about children, but signed up for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Bermuda anyway. He was 22, and a recent hire at Butterfield Bank where employees were encouraged to do community service. The stockbroker wanted to make ...

What would make someone holiday in the same place, 36 times? Leonora Sheehy got hooked on Bermuda in 1963. Fifty-two years later, it’s still her favourite place to vacation. “What keeps bringing me back is that Bermuda is close, safe and not tropical...

Never in his wildest dreams did Harrison Isaac expect to start a family again, in his 60s. The semi-retired architectural services provider already had three children and six grandchildren. A 2011 trip to Manila, Philippines changed his life. “The...

It would be easy to get overwhelmed at Crufts, the largest dog show in the world. Over a three-day period, 125,000 people pass through and 20,000 dogs compete. Janice Moran’s keeshond Puck didn’t place, but he had a blast. “He was probably patted by...

What the heck is ‘Punch Romaine’? The dish almost threw Ben Jewett. He had promised local foodies a real experience: the final meal served to first-class passengers on board the ill-fated RMS Titanic. It took some searching, but eventually the Mad H...

Ali Bardgett’s life revolved around music. She was a professional dancer in England in her younger years, even appearing on stage with a legend: Smokey Robinson. Twenty years ago she traded it all in for a traditional office job. In 2014 she realise...