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The world doesn’t sympathise when temperatures fall in Bermuda. As our thermostats dropped to 56F last week, people on the US East Coast battled a bomb cyclone. With it came more than a foot of snow; Mount Washington, the Northeast’s highest peak, r...

At 19, Abuwi Rasool lost his sight. He was working in the government quarry when dynamite he’d laid a month before exploded in front of him. Most of his clothing blew off and the burns covered his right side, “from my knee to my forehead”. Doctors an...

There are some jokes Greg Proops just will not make. When it comes to politicians however, it’s no holds barred. “It’s my job to make fun of the people in power,” said the comedian, who has a list of names for US President Donald Trump: Mango Mussol...

Shanti Das has worked with Prince, OutKast, Ashanti and Erykah Badu. Tonight she will be in Bermuda giving advice to local singers. The public is invited to watch Olivia Hamilton, Sheila Smith, Jesse Seymour and others, as they perform live. “Given m...

Breaking up is hard to do. Ask Fathers United. The group’s 40 members met once a month for 41 years until it disbanded in 2015. Even though age and declining health had reduced the numbers, the eight who remain still question if it was the right mov...

Every December Edmund Faria digs out boxes and boxes of Christmas from a back room in his house. Out come Santas, stars, the reindeer and nativity figures. Decorating has been his hobby since he moved to Bermuda from the Azores in 1959. “Back then,...

Christmas is coming early for Hamilton’s homeless this year. Kelsey DeSilva, Michelle Grimes and Galvette Place will be at City Hall tonight, handing out soup, care packages and other goodies. They decided to help the homeless after seeing them aroun...

Yasser Baia, Sierra Brangman and Tyrese Coakley are the kind of friends who tease each other endlessly. They share a passion for debate, and argue everything from vegetarianism to who buys the next round of fries. “We’re besties,” said Sierra, 16. Th...

Would The Nutcracker ballet be the same if the Sugar Plum Fairy was a mermaid? What if Clara fell asleep on the beach instead of her living room? Lizz Pimentel of In Motion School of Dance thinks the classic story would be even more fun. In Motion’s ...

Norma Cross is 79, and still hustling. Ask, and she will say it is in her blood. Her entrepreneurial parents, William and Blanche Marshall, ran O R Lobleins Grocery at the corner of Middle Road and Tee Street in Devonshire. “The only time my parents...