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Dear Sir, Bermuda for the first time in the history of Rotary International’s Youth Leadership Programme had the privilege of holding this event on Paget Island for one week. We were fortunate to experience the magnitude of Bermuda’s sloop, the Spir...

Sasha Howland gave up ten inches of hair for a good cause yesterday. The ten-year-old student at Bermuda High School said that rather than let the hair go to waste, she would donate it to Locks of Love, an international non-profit that uses donated h...

With the 2016 Bermuda Agricultural Show set to begin two weeks from today, organiser David Lopes is hoping it will be “as good or better than it’s been before”. Taking place from April 14 to 16 at the Botanical Gardens in Paget, the show will celebra...

Catherine Cox still lives in the house where she was born, on The Glebe Road. The 88-year-old remembers when the pace of the Pembroke neighbourhood was slower: no cars, no electronics and no shootings. “We skipped rope when we were children. We playe...

A community programme that provides the homeless with a cooked breakfast and clean clothes every week is celebrating its fifth anniversary. The Loads of Love initiative has helped scores of people since it launched at Christ Church in Warwick in 2011...

Preserve Marriage, a pressure group opposed to same-sex couples being allowed to wed in Bermuda, has applied to become a charity. A Ministry of Home Affairs spokeswoman confirmed the application on Thursday, telling The Royal Gazette: “That applicati...

Bermuda charities must work together to withstand the continuingly harsh economic climate, according to the executive director of the Centre on Philanthropy. “We are going to have to pull our socks up and talk together about survival,” Elaine Butterf...

Local charity Adara Development has teamed up with DHL to provide hats and blankets hand-knitted in Bermuda to sick newborns in Uganda. The items, knitted by Adara Development, will be shipped to the Kiwoko Hospitals neonatal intensive care unit by D...

Homes and businesses across Bermuda switched their lights off from 8.30pm to 9.30pm on Saturday night to mark Earth Hour. Environmental charity Greenrock helped to organise a five-kilometre glow fun run and walk through Hamilton, as well as a night-...

Laurent and Zaira Perrier have raised $11,000 for sick children and they’re barely out of diapers. The siblings, 4 and 2, are this year’s youngest St Baldrick’s Day participants. They will have their heads shaved tomorrow to raise funds for childhoo...

The Bermuda Optical Company is celebrating 60 years of business by donating $6,000 to local charities. Managing director Timothy Kempe and vice-president Nicholas Comber presented $3,000 cheques to both the Bermuda Society for the Blind and the Salva...

John Buckley dreamt of completing 100 marathons. With a mere 11 to go, the race walker was forced to quit when he had a pulmonary embolism diagnosed, caused by a blood clot in his lung. “I literally couldn’t breathe,” he said, adding that for someon...