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Seniors advocacy group, Age Concern, is calling on Government to review FutureCare legislation and provide financial assistance to eligible seniors following revelations of a glitch in the system which led to overpayments to healthcare providers. “We...

FutureCare, the health insurance programme for senior citizens has been overpaying on claims due to a “system configuration error”. The error was corrected in April which means dozens of seniors will soon be getting bills in the hundreds of dollars t...

Sixty-year-old Coleridge Raynor feared he might be completely incapacitated for the rest of his life when he suffered a massive stroke two days before Cup Match. He said it started with a numb feeling in his lower left leg and foot that he first mist...

Last night I went to a reception that Debi-Raye Rivers and her husband, Jerry, put on at their home in order to thank people who had been supportive of her efforts to establish a response to child sexual abuse on the island of Bermuda. She has establ...

OBA Spokeswoman for Seniors Louise Jackson and Health Minister Zane DeSilva exchanged criticisms yesterday regarding public awareness of FutureCare. While Mrs Jackson said that Mr DeSilva called her a liar on the Shirley Dill Sunday Morning Show, Mr ...

Malaysian physician Dr Francis Ho was one of the happiest men in the world earlier this month when all six of his children gathered for the first time in over a decade to help him celebrate his 80th birthday. And making the gathering even more auspi...

The Movember challenge to grow a moustache and get sponsorship in support of men’s health brought in $64,000 last month for the Bermuda Cancer and Health Centre. Out of the 162 “MoBros” (56 individuals and ten teams), The Royal Gazette’s own Alex Wri...

The proclamation of World Aids Day in front of City Hall came with a minute’s silence, marking Bermuda’s decades of struggle with the epidemic. Students from Harrington Sound Primary School, Somersfield and Whitney Institute addressed a crowd on the ...

While many of us take comfort in strictly following recipes in the kitchen, chef Ashley Tucker loves to concoct her own. The 23-year-old is a self-described food inventor, having spent time after culinary school creating new products for large organ...