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A freedom of information request has been denied regarding allegations of misconduct against the doctor who was the top medic at Bermuda’s only hospital for five years. Donald Thomas, who is likely to have earned more than $500,000 a year while emplo...

A police officer is being treated in hospital for leg injuries after a crash on Palmetto Road this afternoon. According to a police spokeswoman, a police motorcycle and a car collided just outside of the Tynes Bay Incinerator at about 4.15pm. “The ...

The public are being urged to adhere to safety advice at all times by the Bermuda Water Safety Council after marine incidents over the holiday weekend. Their reminder comes after four people were taken to hospital as part of seven marine incidents on...

Two Cabinet ministers appear at odds over whether the six-figure salaries earned by hospital executives should be made public. Home affairs minister Patricia Gordon-Pamplin told The Royal Gazette she stood by a statement she made as health minister i...

The Bermuda Hospitals Board has released information about the basic pay and incentives for its chief executive officer. The data pertains to the fiscal years ending in 2010 and 2011, and comes after the quango released some “compensation data” in M...

Bermuda Hospitals Board’s annual report for 2012 shows how managers battled to improve quality in tough economic conditions, according to chairman Peter Everson. The document, delayed after the Auditor-General called for a review into its financial s...

The choice was marriage or a career; Alda Raposo walked down the aisle. She was a 19-year-old nursing student when she met Norman Raposo on São Miguel in the Azores. He was six years older and living in Bermuda, a place that seemed like the other s...

Honour someone you admire and help a good cause by buying a “legacy brick” at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital. An ongoing fundraising campaign for the Bermuda Hospitals Charitable Trust, the bricks are engraved with a special message and then place...

Men who have sex with men will now be able to donate blood in Bermuda, according to the Bermuda Hospitals Board. Relaxing the outright ban to a one-year deferral period after the last sexual contact will bring Bermuda in line with other countries, c...

While blood donations traditionally see a “small spike” around World Blood Donor Day, staff at the hospital have reiterated the need for consistent donors. Bermuda Hospitals Board consultant haematologist Eyitayo Fakunle is particularly hoping to at...

Regular red cell exchange transfusions are keeping Shevaughn Young alive. The mother of two has sickle-cell anaemia and started the blood transfusions in October 2013 after suffering a second stroke. “Sickle-cell is a disease that you get from both ...

There is no substitute for blood in the immediate aftermath of a serious medical emergency that requires a transfusion. With the donor population declining and patients still dying from blood loss, Edward Schultz, the chief of emergency medicine at ...