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Heels are optional; chairs and music provided. If you want to look sexy while getting fit, Dy-Ann Simmons’s chair-dancing classes could be your best bet. Interested but a bit intimidated? The cocktails on offer at the fitness instructor’s happy hours...

It’s not easy going back to school at 39. But drug addiction counsellor Isis Wellman is determined to do so to combat what she sees as Bermuda’s growing tide of drug addiction. Mrs Wellman works for the Turning Point Substance Abuse Programme. She re...

A new school year brings special challenges for the 2,000 children in Bermuda with asthma. The disease is the main reason why students miss classes, according to Open Airways. The asthma charity yesterday offered the following tips for keeping childr...

Larry Trott turned to herbal medicines as a teenager, after his appendix nearly burst. Doctors got the organ out before that happened, but could not stop the associated severe pain and cramping. A Jamaican friend then turned the 17-year-old on to var...

Cushi Ming thought he had reached the height of his career in 2012. The 29-year-old had climbed the ranks as an event promoter, organising some of the Island’s most talked-about parties with Fantastic 5 Entertainment Group. Then things started to c...

Not just a baby has been saved, but an entire family. That was Gianluca Cacace’s awe-inspired thought after witnessing infant open-heart surgery this summer. Bermudians Gianluca, 16, and friend Liam Peniston, 17, watched the surgery as part of a volu...

Monty Hamill has received $22,000 to buy his dream gift — sobriety. The 44-year-old has been battling alcoholism for most of his life. Friends and family stepped up with the cash for his rehabilitation only hours after his brother Kirkland requeste...

Tammy Dowling was a single mom juggling 12-hour days at the office. She struggled for ten years and then, in 2009, reached her breaking point. “I was at a point where I just wanted to surrender,” said Mrs Dowling, the former director of a day care c...

Five years ago Karen Sexton’s father spotted an unusual mole on her back. He encouraged her to get it removed, never thinking that it might be cancerous. “He just thought it looked funny,” the 33-year-old said. “I also thought it was just an ordinary...

Vicki Abraham was addicted to sugar. She couldn’t quit it no matter what she tried. Things got worse when she fell into a major depression 18 months ago while living in Sydney, Australia. She turned to liquorice drops and ice cream to help deal with...