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Dear Sir, What a welcome sight to open today’s newspaper (July 15) and see the letter from Femi Bada. I have felt like a voice in the wilderness with my comments on the ever-growing powers of the Bermuda Health Council, whom I have accused of empire...

Dear Sir, A ruptured appendix gave me an unplanned opportunity to see the new hospital from the inside. I was very impressed. From admittance through operation and aftercare to release five days later, I could not have been treated better. The new fa...

First there was the ascent of Mont Blanc in 1786; climbs followed in Asia and South America. As explorers began to challenge the higher parts of the Earth, the high-altitude environment occasionally proved unexpectedly fatal. Deaths in otherwise hea...

Horseshoe Bay was closed to the public yesterday after onshore wind conditions caused an influx of Portuguese man-of-war. The beach, popular with tourists, was closed at 12.53pm. “Lifeguards have hoisted a purple flag at the tower indicating the pr...

Dear Sir, The Bermuda Society for the Blind thanks you for your kind donation of $453.00, which were the proceeds held from your Denim days in the month of April. We are truly grateful to you. The BSFB is in its second year of delivering vision rehab...

A group tasked with retooling unpopular healthcare legislation will have a busy summer amending the Act in time for Parliament this September. “We will see how fast we can put something together,” said Henry Dowling, the head of the Bermuda Medical D...

After years of illness and frustration over the lack of an accurate diagnosis, Stacey Dunn has concluded that the water in her home is the cause of her sickness. “We’re just getting out of here,” Ms Dunn told The Royal Gazette from the front room of ...

Bermuda Hospitals Board’s annual report for 2012 shows how managers battled to improve quality in tough economic conditions, according to chairman Peter Everson. The document, delayed after the Auditor-General called for a review into its financial s...

A significant increase in rates of diarrhoea and vomiting illness has prompted the Ministry of Health to issue a high-level warning. The Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit raised the alert because the number of cases of gastroenteritis is unusually ...

The Bermuda Health Council helped to recover $700,000 in health insurance premiums in the fiscal year 2015 to 16. Health minister Jeanne Atherden also said the organisation’s efforts — in collaborating with insurers and educating employers on their o...

The mother of a severely autistic boy has called for the introduction of a Bermuda Government-run special needs school. Marcia Scraders’s ten-year-old son Omori has pervasive developmental disorder, which is characterised by difficulties in behaviour...

Sometimes I hate that I’m addicted to Facebook. I am embarrassed to say how many times that I check it per day; my phone’s battery shows that Facebook takes up 22 per cent of its usage. I’m addicted to Facebook not only because of the information i...