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How many 51-year-olds out there can still do the splits? Gina Payne-Scott is one, although she wasn’t always so fit. By her mid-40s she was overweight and plagued with aches and pains; after a simple walk, she was out of breath. “For at least ten yea...

The family of Ezariah “Ezra” Matthie last night described the 21-year-old, affectionately known as “Snakes” and “Ezzy”, as “a gentle and genuine soul, a calm spirit with a strong presence”. Mr Matthie’s life was claimed in a collision on Monday after...

I write this amid the dulcet tones of juddering jackhammers and breaking tile. One of those unexpected gifts of homeowning, suddenly discovering you need to re-plumb a bathroom because the old metal pipes have rusted closed. No wonder the sink wasn’t...

The City of London is poised to launch a fresh bid to lure lucrative insurance-linked securities business to Britain. London’s prestigious Financial Times reported yesterday that the British government had set its sights on attracting the fast-growin...

“Changing Lives One Voyage at a Time, Over Time”. This is the mission statement of the sloop Spirit of Bermuda. The Bermuda Sloop Foundation provides exceptional leadership and life-skills training, and character development for young Bermudians w...

Equality activists Rainbow Alliance have joined the Human Rights Commission in criticising a proposed referendum on same-sex marriage. The group also criticised recently tabled legislation to limit marriage to heterosexual couples as “a cowardly rout...

Dear Sir, On this island I have constantly been made aware of race and hate. I grew up in a multiracial society, which has not been without discord, but the biggest difference here is that the black population really does believe that the white popul...

Bermudians Dage Minors and Shaquille Dill have been selected to compete at this month’s Division II NCAA Championships at. Minors, a junior at Franklin Pierce University, has named in a team alongside his distance medley relay team-mates, graduate s...

Noah Browne will join the ranks of the island’s professional squash players later this month. Browne will make his debut as a professional at the Digicel Bermuda National Squash Championships, where he will hope to go one better than last year when h...

Eight young Bermuda sailors will take to the water this weekend in the RC44 Championship Tour. The group, all of whom are trying to make Bermuda’s Red Bull Youth America’s Cup team, will compete alongside 56 sailors in eight international teams. One ...

Unlike most children, little Seraphina will get to choose her birthday. As a “leap baby” born on February 29, her mother says she will leave it to her daughter to decide whether to celebrate her birthday on February 28 or on March 1. The tiny bundle ...

How the island would cope with an oil spill could be determined over the next two days in an exercise involving Rubis Energy and the Bermuda Regiment. Keeping on eye on proceedings is a small group of observers from the US Coast Guard, who are on the...