Charmaine Sahadeo, 42, from Trinidad, suffers from the rare condition NF-1 neurofibromatosi, which resulted in debilitating growths on her scalp, in her mouth, all over her face, arms and elsewhere.
That divide centered on Council member Andria Tupola’s Resolution 50 which urges, via a voter-approved charter amendment, that Honolulu’s lifeguard and ambulance services be broken up to create that new department.