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Maxine Esdaille dreamt of becoming a nurse until a frank talk about blood changed her mind. She then considered becoming a scientist, but didn’t receive much encouragement. “Black women weren’t scientists in those days,” she said. “Someone so nicely ...

When Andrew Trott-Francis’s grandfather developed cancer, his first thought was “not again”. His grandmother had died from pancreatic cancer six years before. Doctors suggested Dale Gibbons use a trial drug to fight the cancer they’d found in his liv...

Richard Caisey is a self-confessed sports nut. Football, cricket, softball — you name it, he’s played it. It all came to a standstill when he was diagnosed with cancer in 2006 at age 23. “One day I was playing cricket in the Evening League and I was...

Jack Fraser was 17 the first time he saw a car. It was an Austin 8, and joy of joys, he was able to sit in it. The challenge came when he was finally allowed to take the wheel a year later. Automatic cars weren’t around then. To get a stick shift l...

Gombey dancing is in Teresa Warner’s blood. She is descended from founders of both Warner’s and Place’s Gombey troupes. When she started dancing with Warner’s at the age of 6, it came naturally. However, her father, Gregory Place, a former captain o...

Zebedee Wakely has climbed mountains, swum with sharks and taken a hit in the chest, all for the perfect shot. “It’s all part of the process,” said the 15-year-old. “If I get the image, it’s worth it.” This month his efforts paid off when he was name...

Bank officer, Justice of the Peace, world traveller ­— Dorothea Butterfield is proud of all she has achieved. She never imagined such a future when she was a teenager. Her family couldn’t afford to send her to high school, so she had to work at 14. ...

The first thing you notice at Perform to Learn preschool is the puppet theatre. The North Street school is all about self-expression and the arts. But since September, in between the puppet shows and the dance, children have been learning more high-t...

Retirement isn’t something 84-year-old Edwena Smith has ever considered. She was a teacher at the Berkeley Institute for 25 years and then worked in insurance. For the past 18 years she’s run a business teaching English as a second language, out of...

Victoria Mello knew she was in for a challenge when she offered to make dresses for orphans. She’d never made one in her life. Still, her final project at Somersfield Academy required her to do something she loved, and she loved stitching. “I had an ...