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For many recovering addicts, the Salvation Army’s Harbour Light and Life Skills programmes are the rock on which they can rebuild their lives. SARAH LAGAN asked residents how they are working towards a brighter future. • Resident 1 has been with the...

Laquita Burrows has been appointed director of the Health Insurance Department. Announcing the move, the Ministry of Health and Seniors said the Department operates and manages the Bermuda Health Insurance Plan, the Future Care Plan, the Mutual Rein...

The entry to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital’s general wing lobby will be closed tomorrow, while Bermuda Hospitals Board installs new doors. The work will affect the entrance at the old wing of KEMH, facing the Botanical Gardens, where the Pink Caf...

Some 20 clients, staff members and supporters of the Salvation Army marched proudly through the streets of Hamilton yesterday morning in the name of addiction recovery. The walk was one of several events being staged during the month of September wh...

Those seeking help with addiction are being encouraged to attend open-air meetings at the Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art and the lush surroundings of the Botanical Gardens as part of September’s Recovery Month. The Onion Patch Group of Alcoholics...

Contentious legislation aimed at regulating private healthcare providers and the equipment they use is due to be retabled in Parliament in November but some doctors fear they still won’t be happy with the reworked Bill. The Royal Gazette understands ...

Bermuda Hospitals Board has announced there will be no increase in fees for the island’s hospitals for the year 2016/17. The arrangement is not without challenges, a statement said this afternoon: increasing numbers of patients are turning up both Ki...

Kiandra Simons had been faced with uncertainty about how she would pay her tuition fees throughout her medical studies. The 25-year-old doctor has now been awarded the Margaret and Robert Harvey Medical Scholarship, which will help pay off her studen...

A primary school student has been infected with viral meningitis and is receiving medical care in Boston. The student, who attends Bermuda High School, has not been named and this newspaper has been given no further information as to the severity of...

Friends, family and colleagues of a woman with thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura — a rare blood disorder — put on their walking shoes on Saturday to raise money to fight the condition. The walkers gathered at the Botanical Gardens at 8am and walked...