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A charity dedicated to the protection of children appealed for better education on sex and consent to help prevent abuse. Debi Ray-Rivers, the founder and executive director of Scars, said parents and caregivers had to push past their discomfort and ...

A veteran bus driver with a love of hospitality lived a life of service to others, his daughter has said. Sonia Howes said Sidney Simmons, who died earlier this month, “just loved being around people”. Mr Simmons volunteered for more than a decade fo...

Public primary schools were given $25,000 worth of school supplies yesterday. Support Public Schools, set up to buy and deliver school supplies for government primary schools, delivered half of its $50,000 worth of equipment to schools in the central...

A young man, who took part in a mentorship programme for most of his childhood, has been awarded a bursary to help him achieve his aim of working in the financial services industry. Benjamin Edwards was named as the recipient of the Big Brothers Big ...

A mother who lost her son in a crash said she was moved to see members of the public cover the island in blue yesterday in memory of him and others who have died on the roads. Antoinette Burgess said that she had “never dreamt” of seeing the blue clo...

A woman who appealed to the public for help to pay for overseas medical treatment said she was over the moon after she exceeded her £6,500 goal – $7,787 – in only a week. Mickia Brangman raised £6,875 through a GoFundMe page to help her enrol in a s...

A maths tutoring centre has teamed up with an asset management firm to launch a scholarship drive to send 500 youngsters to summer maths camps. Equilibria Capital Management has agreed to fund 50 scholarships and it is hoped that the scholarship driv...

A traditional charity walk has donated 240 laptops to primary school pupils. The Bermuda End-to-End Charitable Trust announced this week it had handed over the Chromebooks and protective cases to the Ministry of Education. Anne Mello, the chairwoman ...

A team of Bermudian runners is to brave temperatures as low as minus 20F in an Antarctic marathon to raise cash for charity. Anna Laura Hocking, Philip Martin, Andy McComb and Mark Harris — the Bermuda Penguins — will leave next Thursday to take part...

A new campaign yesterday appealed to the public to wear blue on Friday to commemorate people who have lost their lives on the roads. Pain Into Purpose Bermuda and the Kijani Dream Charity, set up by the family of schoolboy Kijani Burgess after he die...

Running a home to help women and their children is a dream come true for the service’s first executive director, she said. Edonna Bean said: “This appointment is not a job for me … this is a dream coming to fruition for me. “To be chosen to be of ser...

A restaurant group gave 600 meals to families in need across the island on Christmas Eve. Take Five, the owners of the Buzz chain, teamed up with the Bermuda Conference of Seventh-day Adventists to give its weekly food programme a major boost for the...