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Doctors predicted Chloe Couture would never eat without a feeding tube, sit unassisted or talk. She had severe cerebral palsy, which placed the odds of improving against the five-year-old. Her family refused to listen. Chloe, 13, will compete with he...

Gloria Frederick has never played a round of golf in her life, but don’t tell her she’s not an expert on the game. When she can’t travel to tournaments, she’s watching on television. Sunday was a very good day. She sat glued to the television as her ...

Colleagues teased mason contractor Headley Stephenson when he first formed his own company. “They said we remember you were wearing sneakers when you stepped off the plane,” said Mr Stephenson, who came to Bermuda from Jamaica in 1969. “In those day...

BET puts her on a shortlist of today’s greatest poets; Shanelle Gabriel would probably argue she is just good at conversation. Poetry lovers here can decide for themselves this week. The Bermuda College Literary Society has brought her here to perfor...

First came the chronic exhaustion, then her right thigh started feeling numb. Doctors thought she might have pinched a nerve but Angela Cotterill was certain it was something more. “I knew that something was up,” she said. A year later, as the commu...

Joan Vanputten pledged to do her best and serve others as a Girl Guide at 15. Now, aged 80, she insists she “still lives by the words” she uttered at the Salvation Army’s Second Excelsior Girl Guide Company’s weekly meetings. “The Salvation Army had ...

Mike Rickards celebrated his 70th birthday by running 13.3 miles up a mountain. He’s not entirely pleased with his efforts; it took him just over six hours to reach the summit. “The lack of oxygen was my main problem,” he said of his attempt at Pikes...

Hiking the Appalachian Trail is not for the faint of heart. It’s a brutal 2,189-mile trek over treacherous, mountain terrain stretching across 14 eastern American states. Rory Gorman undertook the journey in 2017, having never camped or hiked a day...

Daniel Mannus’s living room is filled with photos — of his daughter, two grandchildren and a great-granddaughter. The pictures are poignant because he once thought he might never have a family. “My wife Elaine and I had been trying for years and it...

Natalie Flood had always used exercise to lift her spirits. Getting to classes became difficult after her son, Leo, was born: they were too expensive when combined with the cost of a sitter, and the timing didn’t suit his demands. Figuring that othe...