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Armed in their snake boots, three young information technology students and a forester traverse the country rescuing wildlife from people who hunt them for food.

Mc Gregor Webb, 37, is visually impaired but has mastered his handicap in such an extraordinary way that he lives a perfectly normal life, just as if he has no disability. Webb lives, literally, by faith and not by sight. 

Newspaper salesman Selwyn “Flash” Jameson puts on a show every morning in the Westmoorings area between 6 am and 9.30 am, lifting the spirits of motorists and saving, so far, one marriage. 

Shelly Ann Cameron, 26, rises at 4 am every morning and while it is yet dark begins the half-mile trek, sometimes with her dog Sparkles, to her vegetable garden in North Manzanilla.

To many, Anjanie Chattergoon is known simply as the sweet, little, old lady driving the old car along the quiet back road between Waterloo and Perseverance mornings and evenings on her way to and from work at Carillion Caribbean Ltd.

Though the road may be rough,
I’m not givin’ up.
Some days may be tough,
I’m not givin’ up,
I’m not givin’ up.”
Osei James

In Cunaripo, one passes an old, smiling man sitting in front of Scotty’s Recreation Club, green pumpkin fields with blue water barrels, gnarled trees with hanging vines, and a century-old Presbyterian school, to reach a destitute family of 18 who live at the edge of the forest.

Plantain allyuh! Yam!