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During the winter months, it is easy to focus on a healthier you. It seems easier to spend an hour on fitness after work, when the sun has already set. As summer starts to kick in and the days get longer, fewer people tend to want to invest that tim...

It’s 5am and Jasmine DeSilva is breaking a sweat. The working mother has learnt to use the early hours when her husband and daughter are still asleep — it’s her only opportunity to work out. Staying fit has become a way of life for the 31-year-old. I...

Tene Dowling never pictured herself as an achiever. She was a “problem child” who frequently got into fights and refused to do assigned classwork. Doctors diagnosed attention deficit hyperactivity disorder when she was 6, but the experience had alrea...

Brennan Watkins’s parents thought he had a mild case of the flu when he fell ill in April. The three-year-old had a low-grade fever and was sleepy. His mother, Denise, was away on business at the time. “His nanny called and said she thought he was ge...

Tina Laws’s boyfriend gave her a black eye; she told people she was hit by a golf ball. She’s sure no one believed her, but no one questioned her story either. “We talk about cancer, we talk about lupus, we talk about all kinds of things,” she said....

Juanae Simmons didn’t expect sinus cancer. It was Valentine’s Day, 2014. Tissue from a polyp in her right nostril had been sent away for testing and she was in specialist Wesley Miller’s office for the results. “When I had the surgery, he told me tha...

You can find Rosheena Shamsid Deen’s jaw wrapped in gauze, in a plastic bag she keeps in her closet. Her purpose-built replacement is made entirely of metal, crafted after a near-fatal accident last year. She keeps the original as a reminder not to ...

There’s a shark in Bermuda’s waters. The 17-foot, 1,400lb seabreacher is a semi-submersible watercraft that mimics the predators as they dive in and out of the ocean. Owner Antwan Albuoy describes it as “a roller coaster on the water”. The entrepren...

The hole in Ryan Flood’s leg? A little accident with a blowtorch as he developed his line of handmade custom chef’s knives. Most people would have then called it quits. Not Mr Flood. The 28-year-old shrugged the mishap off as no worse than “a really...

The bark of an endangered African tree might prove a salvation for men with enlarged prostates. Bermudian Quincy Burgess has certainly bought into the theory. He started shipping the herbal remedy pygeum to the island from Africa two months ago. He ...