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Matthew Johnson has been blind since birth but it hasn’t stopped him from achieving. The 24-year-old speaks four languages and recently graduated from the UK’s University of Law, with distinction. He spent the summer working with the Human Rights Com...

Activist Margaret Carter has left a void that has never been filled. That was the word from her friends and family twenty years after her death. Today she would have celebrated her 74th birthday. She was the founder and President of the Bermuda Physi...

Sandys man calls on new premier to address abuse of people with disabilities By Elizabeth Roberts A man who says he has been assaulted and bullied in the workplace due to his physical disability has called on new Premier Craig Cannonier to offer grea...

For people who have just lost their vision, getting from one point to another can be disorienting and intimidating. That is where Jane Charlton steps in. As a vision rehabilitation therapist and a specialist in orientation and mobility, she teaches ...

Like many able-bodied people, Yolanda Bashir had never really considered how difficult it was for people with disabilities to travel around the Island. Those challenges “became crystal clear” last February, after her father Edwin Bashir Sr suffered a...

A cinema, an architecture firm and an insurance company were among businesses honoured yesterday for making their facilities better suited to the disabled. Six Built Environment Accessibility Awards 2012 were given out by Health Minister Zane DeSilva...

Government yesterday continued to promote amendments to the Human Rights Act coming into effect this week intended to help those with disabilities in the workplace. In a press conference yesterday, Health Minister Zane DeSilva and Minister of Youth, ...

Legislation aimed at protecting the rights of disabled people in the workplace will come into effect in the coming weeks. The Human Rights (Unreasonable Hardship) Amendment Act 2011 will become law on December 3, the UN International Day for Persons ...

Few people who use computers in their daily lives ever think much about the cursor, but keeping track of it can be a struggle for a person with a visual impairment. One solution is a little piece of software that will draw a circle around the cursor...

Shadow Health Minister Katherine Michelmore has called for answers over the plight of adults with disabilities whose Government day care facility is “completely inadequate” for their needs. The Orange Valley Centre for adults with mental and physical...