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Since she was a teenager Agathe Holowatinc has been passionate about nutrition. Her first summer job was at a public library in Vancouver where she spent much of her time in the natural health section learning how food can “make you run faster, feel ...

Only a semester away from graduation last spring, Darien Jacobs realised he would not be able to raise the $27,000 he needed to complete his nursing studies in the US. He “took a break” and focused on the full-time job he’d been simultaneously carryi...

When Andrew Trott-Francis’s grandfather developed cancer, his first thought was “not again”. His grandmother had died from pancreatic cancer six years before. Doctors suggested Dale Gibbons use a trial drug to fight the cancer they’d found in his liv...

Marcus Pimentel’s reference letters all carried the same message: passionate and talented with “superior intellectual ability”. Despite that, he struggled to maintain his focus in subjects that he had little interest in. At 5, he learnt he had attent...

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...

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....

Many youngsters grumble when they have to study, but Vikashni Ragunathan loves it. The eight-year-old memorised the world’s flags last month — for fun. She might now be on her way into the Guinness Book of World Records. The current record for the mo...

Some coaches shy away from “ankle biters”. Not Cal Simons. The 60-year-old Bermuda Pacers Track Club coach adores working with young children. “They’re a lot of fun,” he said. “Sometimes [six-, seven- and eight-year-olds] can be very playful. You hav...

Alison Soares felt a tremendous sense of relief when her mother was admitted to Agape House. Hillary Soares was in the final stages of Lou Gehrig’s disease. She struggled to breathe, had a feeding tube and couldn’t move. The irony was that the 70-yea...

Approximately 9,000 people (12 per cent) living in Bermuda have asthma. It is the number one reason children take medication whilst at school, and the number one reason they miss school. It’s also the leading reason adults miss days from work. Resp...