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Evie Hackett can happily talk for hours about endemic trees. Unsurprisingly, she struggles to find others willing to listen. The 19-year-old has high-functioning autism, and can fixate on a topic to the point of boredom. “I have never had a friend w...

Evie Hackett can happily talk for hours about endemic trees. Unsurprisingly, she struggles to find others willing to listen. The 19-year-old has high-functioning autism, and can fixate on a topic to the point of boredom. “I have never had a friend w...

Chandra Persad was thrilled to leave Canada’s winters when she moved to Bermuda in 1970. But the Trinidadian soon found Bermuda also had a chilly side. “There was some discrimination against West Indians,” said the 67-year-old. “People would make co...

Neletha Butterfield ran so fast, her father thought she’d become a professional athlete. Life didn’t exactly work out that way. “All I ever ran for is politics,” the 64-year-old joked. She recounts her 14-year career as a PLP MP in Political Beginnin...

DJ Ohmz is a BET house DJ who has appeared in commercials and modelled for Gap. But seven years ago he was just Omar Anderson, virtually unknown and feeling stuck. His home town of Springfield, Massachusetts, offered only a few nightclubs to play i...

Sacha Welsh really wanted to surprise her husband Owen with the news that she was pregnant. The 30-year-old had it all planned out. She was going to leave the test for him to find when he got home. But she got the surprise when he called asking if t...

June Famous looked forward to hurricanes when she was a child in Tortola. Storms were an exciting time for her and her young cousins. The entire family would shelter together, under one roof. “We’d say this was what it was like in Noah’s Ark,” said ...

Why use a handsaw on your girlfriend when an electric one is so much easier? Illusionist Reza Borchardt does not go easy on his assistant, Christa Kemnitz, just because they’re a couple. She has been cut in half, pushed through an industrial fan and ...

Bartenders will next week battle it out to see who is the best on the island. Ryan Gibbons, of Baracuda Grill, will defend his title, having won the City Food Festival Bacardi Bartender Competition last year. The 32-year-old said he’s feeling confide...

Lennette Warner’s hair was long and thick when she was little. Nobody wanted to touch it. Her family eventually tasked hairdressers with the job. First it was straightened with a hot comb and chemical relaxing came a few years later. When she decided...