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Carly Stong’s yoga class isn’t for waifs. The 33-year-old describes herself as “bigger-bodied” and planned a programme with similar-sized people in mind. “If someone says they don’t identify as bigger-bodied, but wants to come to a class anyway, the ...

Mexican-American author Reyna Grande believes wholeheartedly that immigrants should be treated with tolerance and compassion, documented or not. She was once an illegal immigrant herself. “People forced to immigrate, deserve to be treated with dign...

Lloyd Williams moved to Nevis and thought it was a good time to try farming. He’d never planted anything in his life but there was a lot more open land there than in Bermuda and agriculture was important to his Bahá’í faith. “I was a city boy,” the ...

Eusebio Raynor doesn’t want much in life, just a job, money to spend and things of his own. Unfortunately, when potential employers find out the 28-year-old is paraplegic, and in a wheelchair, the doors slam shut. “A couple of people have said to me...

Leola Stovell is a self confessed fashionista. “I have so many clothes at home it’s sinful,” the 76-year-old laughed. She attributes this to growing up in a family of seamstresses. At 12, she moved from Bermuda to Stamford, Connecticut to live with...

Teenager Katelynn DeMoura is known for her drive at DanceSations dance school on Reid Street. The 14-year-old is passionate about ballet and dreams of one day travelling the world with a dance company. “I don’t know yet, which dance company,” she l...

Dennis Wainwright’s body really took a beating when he was a younger man. As a wicketkeeper in cricket and a goalkeeper in football, he broke his wrists, his jaw, his nose twice, and was hit by a ball in both eyes. “I think it improved my looks,” th...

Wayne Swan felt blind-sided when his marriage fell apart ten years ago. He thought he and his first wife had it all, a close family, two beautiful children and a house of their own. “Sometimes, in hindsight, you are so close to it, you don’t know it...

You won’t find The Beverley Farm Cottage Golf & Country Club on any Bermuda tourist map. And maybe it’s better that way. The water hazard is an old toilet in the middle of the fairway; there’s only one sand trap, and most of the holes between 5 and...

Lawrence Trott starts feeling sentimental whenever he drives past East End Primary School. His parents, Fred and Shirley, and his five siblings studied there; his 1969 class was the first to graduate from the school’s present location — Grenadier Lan...