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Flying a drone looks easy, until you actually try it. Llewellyn Simons likes to say he has seven of the aerial vehicles — plus a submarine. The “submarine” is actually a $1,500 drone he lost a few months ago while using it to film from a boat in the...

In the 25 years Edward Williams worked as a prison officer he earned a reputation for caring, but also for being firm. He’s especially proud to have helped many young men turn their lives around. “People come up to me, literally, all the time,” said ...

At 15, Letitia Washington started writing “steamy” romance novels. Although the stories were mainly for her friends’ entertainment, she used a pen name, Brooklyn Knight, to give them a legitimate ring. “Everyone knew it was me,” she said. It was sill...

Sixty years into their marriage, George and Helen Burt love a good game of verbal ping-pong. “The reason we’ve been married so long is that no one else would put up with him,” Mrs Burt joked. Mr Burt quickly shot back: “That’s because no one else cou...

The odds were against Dakota Tucker when she tried out for the Bermuda Teen Idol competition. She was a newcomer and had no formal vocal training. Even worse, she was up against the previous year’s runners-up, McKenzie Hassell and Emanuel Humphrey. I...

At 88, Lois Johnson has earned a reputation as a troublemaker. It’s because she helps too much. At every one of her many senior citizens’ meetings she’s there preparing tea or lunch — having been told it’s someone else’s responsibility. “I’m a very ...

Over a 40-year career in photography, Gene Ray shot the movers and shakers of the world. He remembers boxer Muhammad Ali as “cool and calm” and television star Ed Sullivan as “nice”. But his beginnings were humble. He grew up on Hermitage Road, Devo...

There was an invisible line dividing Collin Simmons’s Pembroke neighbourhood in the 1950s. White people lived on one side of Happy Valley Road, and blacks on the other. Socially, their paths did not cross. Despite that, it was not until he was a teen...

Jack Bacardi moved into Agape House thinking it was the end. He was in his 40s and had lived the “life of Riley” until drinking and smoking took a toll on his body. Doctors warned that death was imminent. They were wrong. Now 63, he has spent the pa...

The Wright family joke is that 97-year-old Aileen waits for no one. It was certainly true last October when she wanted to visit her sister, Ianthe Pearman, who was ill. Her family offered to drive her to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital but she gre...