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A move to create more spaces for disabled drivers in Hamilton will worsen existing parking problems, retailers have warned. Many shop owners and managers around the city added that the Corporation of Hamilton plan to create more disabled parking spac...

More disabled parking bays are being introduced in Hamilton despite opposition from store owners. The City of Hamilton announced it would increase the number of disabled bays, from 45 to 73, to help cater for demand after more than 1,000 people appli...

People who battled back against physical disabilities have been honoured as part of day to mark the struggles of the disabled. Chyone Harris, 26, said he believed that he would never dance on stage again after spinal injuries left him paralysed. But ...

Mothers of disabled children are to get a Christmas treat this weekend. The charity, A New Life, has joined up with the Brio Studio hair and beauty salon in Devonshire to honour 30 mothers with “a day of beauty and pampering”. LaKiesha Wolffe, head o...

Bermuda has to do more to improve accessibility for disabled people, the health minister has said. Kim Wilson said technology had made improvements to the lives of disabled people, but accessibility remained a problem. She said: “Over the years, adva...

Accessibility is the theme of this year’s UN International Day of Disabled Persons. The Ministry of Health’s Disability Advisory Council will work with Ageing and Disability Services to mark the occasion at a special ceremony on December 3. Kim Wils...

A campaign aimed at raising awareness of the need for disabled parking spaces has been adopted by the City of Hamilton. Next Tuesday, Hamilton will adopt Purple Tuesday, a British programme that began last year, with a temporary increase of 20 more p...

Eusebio Raynor doesn’t want much in life, just a job, money to spend and things of his own. Unfortunately, when potential employers find out the 28-year-old is paraplegic, and in a wheelchair, the doors slam shut. “A couple of people have said to me...

Special Olympics Bermuda is on a mission to bring people together this month with its Revolution is Inclusion campaign. The non-profit group will post weekly inspirational videos on its Facebook page, along with information, throughout the month. A s...

A disabled man has called for more consideration after a speed bump installed in Dockyard means he has to leave his car at the edge of the complex and use his wheelchair to get to the ferry station. The 56-year-old, who asked not to be named, said he...

A retired maths lecturer has raised almost $33,000 for charities for the disabled from his book about his marathon swim around Bermuda. Seán O’Connell, 77, has donated cash raised from the sales of Shark Bait since its publication in 2017 to the Berm...

Bermuda must do more to improve access for the disabled, a new non-profit group set up to help people who have lost limbs said this week. LeKiesha Wolffe and Ryan Gibbons, of A New Life, said very few places were designed to be accessible to people w...