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Mariah Cordeiro vividly remembers the first time she was sexually harassed. She was 13, playing mini-golf with her family, when a man asked her to squat. After repeated requests, she gave in because she “was young and didn’t want confrontation”. “My ...

Kerry Magro is an author, movie consultant and motivational speaker, and has spoken in 100 different locations in the last year. When he was a child, his parents never imagined such a life for him as in early childhood he struggled to talk and he was...

Obstetricians Wendy Woods, Terry Lynn Emery and Emma Robinson have brought thousands of babies into the world. With 60 years of experience between them, they’re now working with their second generation of mothers. Dr Emery, 58, said: “I love it when...

The first time LaToya Bridgewater tried yoga, things didn’t go so well. Out of 15 people, there was only one other person of colour. She had a hard time connecting. “I just didn’t see myself reflected in the class,” Ms Bridgewater said. “I felt unco...

When Ryan Topple first started playing the saxophone, he was so bad his mother asked him to play in the garage for the sake of her ears. It was much the same for brothers Ross and Gareth Cooper. “On one hand, they wanted us to practice,” 13-year-old...

Ellen Hollis readily admits she is not the best archer in the world. The 45-year-old hits the bull’s-eye maybe once in 50 tries. “But when I do, I get a swing in my step and a smile on my face,” Ms Hollis said. She plays once a month, with David Semo...

Jacob Weiss has a daily struggle with Tourette’s: his eyelids twitch; his wrists flex repeatedly. Put him on stage with juggling balls and that all melts away. “I get into that zone and everything just flows,” said Mr Weiss, whose troupe Playing By A...

Khira-Milan Smith was overjoyed when she was chosen for a coding club at St George’s Preparatory School. There was only room for 20 students, so names had to be pulled from a hat. “I was like, I hope my name gets chosen. I hope it gets chosen,” the...

Al Seymour has always been a compulsive sketcher. As a child, he’d draw on anything within reach; the white pine coffins at Cecil W. Frith Funeral Home proved “irresistible”. He said: “I started helping out there when I was very little. The workmen t...

Rose Douglas longed to become a teacher but her father made his views clear — he did not believe in educating girls. It did not stop her from dreaming. As a teenager she started “pretend teaching” on Suffering Lane, the St George’s street she lived ...