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Chances are, if you have been stuck in a queue outside Perot Post Office waiting to get tested for Covid-19, you'll have heard Robert Symons play. He has been there with his steel pans since June, performing four days a week. The 70-year-old is cert...

In her 20s, Carrie DeSilva thought that if she could just lose weight she would be happy. She tried everything from the Keto diet to fasting, to meal replacement shakes, belly wraps and waist trainers. “I found a raw foods diet in the back of a book ...

Mary Johnson is not fussed by the expected Christmas tree shortage this year – she has not taken her faux one down from last December. “I just couldn’t be bothered,” said the 81-year-old who needed the cheer she got from seeing the lively ornaments; ...

Kanaz Tuzo was moving his minibus ever so slightly forward, when he heard a loud crunch. He had rolled over his laptop, which he had rested on the drive and forgotten about. Aside from the destruction of the computer itself, there was the pain of los...

In her 40s Jeannie Olander decided she wanted to study culinary arts at the Bermuda College. But, despite many queries, they refused to accept her. “I loved to cook,” she said. “I kept asking if they would take mature students and they kept saying no...

Tania Stafford is tearing up the rowing world in the north of England, after moving there nine months ago. The 64-year-old led a “newish” team to victory at the North of England Sprint Rowing Championships. One of the biggest rowing events in the UK,...

David Ker has been charming visitors at the St George’s Historical Society for 24 years. The replica 18th-century press in the basement of Mitchell House on Duke of Kent Street is his baby. The 79-year-old loves demonstrating how the press once worke...

Heather Willens remembers just how isolated she felt when her son, Theo, was born last year. Worried by the pandemic, she initially kept him close to home but as time went on she noticed he seemed a little more prone to sensory overload than his two-...

In what seems like another lifetime, Kade Stallard spent his days crisscrossing the US producing music videos and taking pictures of underground punk, rock and grunge bands. When the pandemic hit, his career came to a halt. “Everything just shut do...

In New York on Friday, Melanie Eddy will show her jewellery at a Sotheby’s exhibit highlighting prominent Black designers from around the world. The event was curated by Melanie Grant who directs luxury content for 1843, The Economist’s lifestyle ...