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Financial Assistance faces a harrowing Budget tomorrow, with a $45 million cap likely — cutting it short of last year’s unprecedented $50 million. But helping agencies across the Island see no end in sight to the rise in people who need support. “Cu...

A woman who says she has been beset with illness after testing positive for high levels of measles among other antibodies now believes local health authorities have given up on her. Stacey Dunn contacted The Royal Gazette after a suspected but unconf...

The controversial issue of medical precertification remains on the cards as the Ministry of Health appraises proposals. Government maintains the process will save money but many local doctors oppose such a move. Three firms, all from overseas, have r...

Eight staff in the maintenance department of The Reefs hotel have been made redundant, in a move attributed by the Southampton hotel to outsourcing. Workers who lost their jobs will be able to reapply for positions with the alternate firm. The layoff...

The family of an elderly woman facing 14 days in prison over an unpaid Digicel bill allegedly run up by someone else is seeking now to have a judgment against her put aside. Janice Beek, 73, of Smith’s, appeared yesterday in debt court before Senior ...

Grieving mother Sandra Matthews-Wilson is still seeking answers into the death of her son, Haile Matthews, after finding little satisfaction in Police reports attributing the fatal crash to alcohol. Known to all as Marcus Garvey, Mr Matthews was kill...

The ailing swing bridge for St George’s, closed for a year in April of last year as a Government cost-saving measure, remains in poor condition — and could stay closed. As of October, a Public Works engineer conceded that the Ministry’s structures te...

Shadow Minister for Transport Lawrence Scott had high praise for this week’s road safety summit and said he would gladly join a task force to be created in the coming weeks to address the Island’s dangerous roads. Mr Scott said he found the calling o...

Bermuda has had no confirmed cases of measles, the chief medical officer Cheryl Peek-Ball said yesterday after some paediatricians reported being inundated with calls from concerned parents. The definitive results of a virus test on a possible local ...

Premier Michael Dunkley has laid out details of his trip to Washington DC, where 12 meetings were conducted on Capitol Hill. Government is closely watching United States tax policy, which has implications for Bermuda’s economy, and Mr Dunkley said he...