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The season is a little brighter for several local charities on the Island thanks to a $20,000 donation from a local law firm. Conyers Dill & Pearman (CDP) made the donation split between a range of lucky charities, including one of Bermuda’s newest c...

At this time of year our thoughts often turn to festivities and presents but given the current economic crisis facing the Island making sure we help the needy is even more important than ever. That is where local companies have really stepped up to t...

It’s something of a tradition for the media to report hard luck stories at Christmas. This has always been somewhat flawed, because people suffer and struggle all year round, and often don’t get the attention they need except at Christmas time. Par...

Many of us get bogged down with the commercial aspects of the Christmas holiday, but there seem to be even more who remember the deeper meaning behind the day. For at least one week of the year, people tend to put their petty differences aside and r...

A community group is set to donate food hampers to 1,500 families across the Island as part of a 16-year tradition. Andrew Phillips, of the West End East End Central Community, said yesterday that the list of needy families across the Island has grow...

A 47-year-old legal secretary who paid back Government for his financial assistance has been hailed as “a living example” by Community Minister Glenn Blakeney. The Warwick man, who asked not to be named because he did not want publicity, paid back th...

Cooking meals, renovating a kitchen and weeding a church garden are not normally on the scheduled list of tasks for staff at Deloitte & Touche’s Bermuda office. But this year, as part of the firm’s annual Impact Day 80 staff members did just that and...

Christmas hampers at the Salvation Army will be a little fuller this year thanks to a selfless offer from ten-year-old Niara Simmons. Niara told her friends not to give her any birthday presents as she turned ten last month, asking them to help those...

Until Barbara Thomas met charity worker Monica Sanders at a US conference, walking up to a homeless person and having a chat was unthinkable. “At the conference, we had to do an activity so we chose to feed the homeless,” said Ms Thomas. “I saw that...