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Rudell “RJ” Pitcher has always been passionate about motocross. He was introduced to the sport by his father, Rudell Pitcher, who would take him to Southside where his uncle Jamel Pitcher would race. RJ didn’t start riding until he was four. By the t...

In her early teens, Linda Smith did a lot of goofing off. “All I wanted to do was play,” the 72-year-old remembered. But she still managed to be one of the top three students in her class at Sandys Secondary School. Then the school principal, Dorothy...

As a child, Skye Kermode watched the “mermaids” at work at Bermuda Aquarium, Museum & Zoo and wanted to join in. But when she talked to grown-ups of her aspirations, they all laughed and tried to direct her towards a more realistic career. “It is jus...

On Pinterest, Donna Pink saw pictures of baskets made using royal palm and figured it would be easy to create her own. As it turned out, it was downright frustrating. For a start there was the challenge of actually finding the fronds. She once begged...

Three Bermudian sisters living in Britain are finalists in a food competition. Jameelah Brinson, Karima Gardner and Ahyaana Tiana Young will find out at the end of this month if they have won the Boxpark Croydon Food Business Competition. The top pri...

Jolene Bean spent almost half a century teaching and loved every minute but in the seven years since she retired, she has sometimes wondered if she should have been an artist instead. The 72-year-old has made jewellery, dolls for her nieces, and “a l...

At 14 Yanni Outerbridge was writing songs and thrilled to hear them play on local radio. In university however, his interest turned to marketing. “There comes a point where you have to be honest with yourself,” the 26-year-old said. “You ask yourself...

In middle school Trent Daniels longed to do a backflip on his dirt bike. He even tried to do it as a physics project. “My teacher said ‘no way!’,” the Belco machinist said. “She said it was too dangerous.” At 16, Mr Daniels got into motocross racing,...

Katherine Dale’s interest in natural medicine started with a pregnancy scare back in the 1990s. She went to a doctor who told her that based on her last period, she could not be pregnant. She was an adult, but knew very little about her own fertilit...

White Yardie never intended to become a stand-up comedy sensation. Ten years ago, he was a delivery driver in London. He was Bored and started playing around with a now defunct app called Keek that allowed users to upload videos. “I started doing s...