May 1: Government was urged to launch an Island-wide programme for underfed schoolchildren by a group of volunteers who provided breakfast and lunch for 30 hungry youngsters each weekday.

May 3: The Duchess of Gloucester, Colonel-in-Chief of the Bermuda Regiment, visited Regiment soldiers during their overseas camp in the Southeast of England.

May 4: The Education Review team made ten recommendations to fix the public school system. They were: dramatically improve the quality of teaching, create an executive board to implement the review, greater delegation, accountability and transparency, raise school leaving age and create a senior school federation, create a federation for each primary and middle school partnership, tweak the curriculum, address behavioural and learning difficulties, and make it a community effort.

Cabinet Minister David Burch lost the first round of his bid to replace Stanley Lowe as Progressive Labour Party election candidate in Southampton East, going down by nine votes to six.

May 7: More than $520 million in Government money was unaccounted for, according to the Auditor General Larry Dennis who raised the possibility of fraud in May. This information was revealed in the annual audit report from Mr. Dennis who showed that the unaccounted $523 million was the result of consistently late financial reporting from Government quangos and public funds.

The 20th annual End-to-End walk exceeded expectations with more than 2,500 walkers. On May 7, pledges were still being counted but already they topped the $215,000 raised in 2006.

May 8: Government web sites crashed on the very day it launched the Island's first TechWeek to improve Bermuda's understanding of the many ways residents could apply Information Technology to improve their lives.

Former Progressive Labour Party Senator Walter Roban (pictured) won again in a rerun of the branch vote to select a successor to Ottiwell Simmons to stand in Pembroke East.

May 14: Marilyn Darrell, a former employee at law firm, Cox Hallett Wilkinson, was handed a two-year suspended prison sentence for stealing hundreds of dollars from its lawyers. She took cheque books from the desks of Wendell Hollis and William Cox of and signed them, and exchanged them for cash and groceries at a supermarket.

A man who raped a teenager after breaking into her bedroom was jailed for 25 years. Tewolde Mathin Selassie, 29, was told by the judge: "This was in my opinion a vicious, heinous crime of the worst type, the sort one should not wish upon one's worst enemy."

May 15: Donald Iain MacDonald, who was accused of killing his best friend's girlfriend, Annett Farkas through dangerous driving had his name cleared by a jury. Ms Farkas, 24, a Canadian who worked as a bartender at the Robin Hood Pub, died from massive head injuries sustained in the collision on North Street, Pembroke, on September 5, 2005.

Kurron, the consultants who produced a damning report into Bermuda's hospitals were being drafted in as support for senior management, to help with several major projects including the rebuilding of the hospital. Several local doctors criticised the move, saying Government should have picked world-renowned Johns Hopkins Medicine International, another contender. They accused Premier Dr. Ewart Brown of cronyism.

May 16: Winners of a lottery for affordable housing expressed their disappointment at a lack of action by the Government two years on. Housing Minister David Burch was scheduled to meet with the winners of the Harbour View Villas project at a meeting closed to the public despite $10.5 million of public funds being used to subsidise the scheme. The Southside project at St. David's has been plagued with problems since its inception and was scaled down from 196 homes to just 108 units.

May 17: A salesman was hailed a hero after he managed to rein in a horse bolting through Hamilton pulling its carriage — unmanned. The horse bolted on Front Street, the second time in three weeks that horses ran loose on that road, before running up Bermudiana Road.

May 18: Ferry services were disrupted after Marine and Ports workers called industrial action leaving many workers and tourists stranded.

May 19: An act bringing in payroll tax breaks for businesses in North Hamilton was passed with all party support in a bid to spread wealth opportunities to those previously marginalised in the economy. Under the Act new businesses setting up in Bermuda's first economic empowerment zone will be able to enjoy the lowest rate of payroll tax available.

May 22: Speaking at a meeting with the Bermuda Senior Islanders group, Premier Dr. Ewart Brown pledged to make healthcare more comprehensive and affordable for the older generation. He also announced that seniors would no longer have to pay the annual TCD driver's license renewal fee.

May 23: Premier Dr. Ewart Brown announced that Bank of Bermuda CEO, Philip Butterfield, would mastermind the overhaul of the under-fire public education system. Mr. Butterfield was to be the chairman of the Interim Executive Board, which would oversee the recommendations outlined in the recent education review.