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While studying law in England, Siraj Grant developed a minor infection. His back hurt and his lymph nodes were swollen. After seeing his doctor, he turned to an alternative therapy called cupping to detox his body. “I kept hearing a lot about it and...

Michael Robinson loves educating people about wine. Working for Burrows & Lightbourn for 22 years as director of wines, he led many wine-tasting events and discussions. He also writes about wine in his weekly Royal Gazette column, Grape Expectations....

Lance Crockwell is a compulsive poet. On the bus, walking through his Sandys neighbourhood or talking to friends, the verses just flow from him his lips. “I don’t usually plan it or think about it,” the 58-year-old Sandys man said. “People will say ...

Laura Frith, has a lot of passions ­— highland dancing, sewing, science, Sea Cadets, but playing the flute is “high up there” on her list of favourite activities. “I like that it is very pretty and it is fun to play once you know how,” the 12-year-ol...

The old saying “if you love what you do, you will never work a day in your life” has certainly proved true for Joan Talbot. She spent 67 years with Front Street clothing store Calypso, and never felt like she was working. “I was happy and I loved me...

At the end of each day, art teacher Richelle Richards has often collected a box of lost items belonging to children — water bottles, sneakers, lunch bags. She has seen some middle-school students go home without shoes. “How do they not know they don...

Teamwork is equally as important as physical strength. That may just have been the biggest lesson learnt by a group of teenagers who spent three days on Spirit of Bermuda working towards the Silver level of the Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award...

Laid off by the Fairmont Southampton in March, Jackson Chandranathan took it as an opportunity to help people less fortunate then himself. Throughout the lockdown period, for five days a week, the chef made his way to the kitchen at the Salvation Arm...

Carol Carvalho loves to shop but has a rule: for every item that she buys, another has to go. The monthly car boot sale at Peace Lutheran Church in Paget is where she drops many of them off. “I hate clutter,” said the 75-year-old, who has organised ...

As the sun set and the cockroaches swarmed, Eva O’Connor wondered if she had made the right choice. She was spending the night in the middle of a field in Dockyard, having signed up for a two-week camp with Raleigh International called I Am Brave. “W...