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None of the bike riders expected Alyssa Rowse would leave them in the dust. She was a teenager racing against 20 adults, most of whom were men. None of that mattered to the 16-year-old. She blew through the course and was the second across the finish...

We celebrated Bermuda’s heroes this month; many of us marked the holiday by strutting our stuff down the road covered in feathers and jewels. The carnival made its debut last year and this year it seemed to have tripled in size. The biggest lesson ...

Robin Mayor was at her wits’ end after the double hit of Hurricanes Fay and Gonzalo. It was not the first time she had been left without power for days at a time. After Hurricane Emily in 1987, she was in the dark for three weeks with a six-month old...

There’s an understanding in Bermuda: certain things just aren’t discussed. Stephanie Gibson thought she knew what was best left unspoken. And then she challenged a group of artists to put the issues on the table. “I was surprised by the breadth,” she...

If you’ve missed Norman Furtado on the greens at Mid Ocean, well, he’s been busy. The 59-year-old has been in and out of hospital for the past two years, battling a rare form of leukaemia. He’s lucky to be alive. His wife Lynn dragged him to King Edw...

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....