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Louise Jones is happiest when she’s outside — digging in the garden, painting things around the yard. She starts every morning with a swim near her Pembroke home accompanied by her Labrador Retriever. Afterward, while Sandy has a sniff along the bea...

The average person can hold their breath for two minutes; Beth Neale can hold hers for six. The South African plans to put the skill to use in September when she will attempt to free dive 164ft without fins, to raise $20,000 for the Bermuda Zoologica...

In his younger years “Ted” Cowen would fly up the 185 steps of Gibbs Hill Lighthouse. It was something he did frequently. His father, Rudolph, was the lighthouse keeper and would send him to grab a tool needed for machinery work — sometimes four or ...

“Age is nothing but a number. You are never too old or too young to learn.” Sharmaine Thomas’s message to this year’s graduates of the Adult Education School was heartfelt. Like them, she was receiving her GED after a personal struggle, but the other...

In her eighties, Myrtle Durham took on a cause: a bus stop in her neighbourhood in Smith’s. Trash was a problem as was the foliage, which was frequently overgrown. “I was cutting the bushes otherwise if you sit down on the bench that is there, the bu...

In Uganda, Trew Morris was surprised to find schools without instruments or a music programme. Filled with happy memories of the time he spent learning the bagpipes, he returned to Bermuda and immediately began crowdfunding. His hope is to raise $540...

Sandra Warner didn’t understand why Amir X was asking her to model for his show. Granted, the fashion designer was her cousin but ... she was 70 — and had never been on the runway before. “I said: ‘Me? You got old people in your fashion show?’ He s...

When Jackie Stevenson arrived in Bermuda, she was expecting little more than sun and sand. What she found, instead, was a vibrant place filled with culture, history and natural beauty. “I don’t think I really had any questions about Bermuda before I ...

Debbie Masters trained horses for much of her life, she never expected a Brazilian mastiff would get the best of her. But one day, during training, nine-month-old 130lb Athena, a dog she got from a dog warden, was full of energy and knocked her over....

Some siblings fight tooth and nail growing up, but not Deanna Perry and Jimmy O’Connor. Perhaps it was because they only had each other to play with on the tiny island off St David’s that they grew up on, but they quickly learnt how to get along. Fi...