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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...

Seán O’Connell will go down in history as the first person to swim the entire way around Bermuda. He did that between August 21 and 23, 1976, in 43 hours and 27 minutes. He’s also responsible for another feat — raising almost $65,000 for the Bermuda ...

Whenever children ask dancer Sarah Lamb for an autograph, she always obliges. “I know how much it means to them,” said the 37-year-old Royal Ballet principal known for roles such as the Sugar Plum Fairy in the Royal Ballet’s The Nutcracker. She reme...

St Kitts-Nevis and Bermuda are 1,675 miles apart, but Louise Tannock is determined to bridge the gap. In the 41 years since she moved from St Kitts to Bermuda, she has taken schoolchildren to meet relatives in St Kitts-Nevis, hosted visitors from the...

For years Henry Adderley lived and breathed rugby. Then he tore ligaments in both knees in two separate games. His rugby career was over. “I felt disappointed,” said the 48-year-old. “Watching from the sidelines was awful. I tried to play again but...

Oliver Simmons thinks there’s something special about a Triumph motorcycle. “They make this deep sound,” said the 72-year-old. “If you get, say, six of them going up Knapton Hill, it sounds like jet planes coming in. “You can get a lot of speed out ...