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The windy weekend blew in an extra surprise for expecting parents Dmitry Ledyaev and Sabrina Chasseriauds. Their son and first child, Roman Louis Dmitrievich Ledyaev, was born right as Hurricane Joaquin was edging past and battering the Island. Roman...

I have a confession to make. You know that school that holds up traffic every morning? My child goes there. Here is an inside look at what goes wrong, from the inner workings of the school driveway. Basically, the problem is uber parents, mostly ub...

The first time Nasya Joell danced on stage he was nine. He was so nervous he kept dropping his prop but the experience got him hooked on performing. By the time his family left Bermuda for Huntsville, Alabama a year later, Nasya was dancing competiti...

Dwayne Basden’s whole world changed the moment he learnt he was having a daughter. The 42-year-old has had to wade through unchartered territory: Barbie dolls, tickle sessions and hugs and kisses have all become a way of life since Harli was born s...

Nurse Rebecca Ronaldson thought there was nothing more exhausting than an Emergency Room late shift. Then she had a baby. As a sleep-deprived mother, she put on winter woollies forgetting it was summer. She put groceries that belonged in the fridge...

Five years ago Judy Baum was semi-retired and enjoying life when out of nowhere came a curveball. Her 38-year-old daughter, Lori Correia, suffered a massive stroke. Mrs Baum stepped in as her caregiver. “You don’t expect your children to have a te...

Anthony Cherrington Jr dreamed of becoming an actuary but life seemed to be conspiring against him. He’d had no luck with the many scholarships he’d applied for. And though he was putting in long hours at work, the cash wasn’t enough to cover the cos...

When I heard my daughter wanted to have a boy over to play I rushed out and bought a soccer ball. I thought it was essential. Surely he wouldn’t find anything interesting in her sea of Barbie dolls and dress-up clothes. I went to a single-sex school;...

The just concluded murder trial of Kiahna Trott-Edwards is as good a case as any to exemplify the depth of societal breakdown in Bermuda. Two people, unknown to one another before that fateful day on September 8 last year, thrust into a narrative tha...

As a young girl, Francine Mason realised there was a stigma attached to Court Street. It made her determined to prove good things could come out of her neighbourhood. The 47-year-old from “the back of town” has been a partner with global accounting f...

On the first day of school my daughter came home with an athletic contract. How is it even legal to make an eight-year-old sign on the dotted line? The contract was a bit of a surprise since my daughter isn’t on any sports team. I assume it was for ...

The lovely husband is away on a business trip to Costa Rica. I know it’s all meetings and hard work, but I cannot help feeling a little jealous. And he gets to sleep star-shaped in a hotel bed. True, I can sleep star-shaped in ours, but last night’s...