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Consider Team Hope as you are approached by runners eager to raise funds during the Bermuda Day Half Marathon Derby. They help people like Toccara Burch-Waldron, a nine-year-old student at Dame Marjorie Bean Hope Academy. Born with cerebral palsy, s...

Heart palpitations. Dizziness. Nausea. Numbness. Trouble breathing. Chest pains. An all-encompassing feeling of dread. Heart attack? No, for many people these are the unpleasant symptoms of something much more mundane, a panic attack. They often seem...

A homeless man charged with assaulting a woman and abusive behaviour has been remanded in custody to have his fitness to plead examined for a second time. Junior Ming, known as “Scientist”, admitted the charges last week, but changed his plea to not ...

Until six years ago, Michellae Edwards had not heard of myasthenia gravis. She thought the bag of frozen peas the specialist put on her eye would stop it sagging — it turned out to be a test, rather than a treatment. “My eye opened and I thought I wa...

First came the chronic exhaustion, then her right thigh started feeling numb. Doctors thought she might have pinched a nerve but Angela Cotterill was certain it was something more. “I knew that something was up,” she said. A year later, as the commu...

A school janitor who claimed he was infected with mould at Francis Patton Primary School has criticised the pace of the Government’s response. Omar Smith, 51, said blood tests had confirmed he had mould in his bloodstream and that he was prepared to ...

A man with mental health and drug problems who headbutted a police officer was shown leniency by a magistrate this week. Magistrate Maxanne Anderson sentenced Eric Richardson to two years probation on Wednesday. She said: “I don’t want anyone to thin...

Last week we talked about how to reset when your nutrition goes completely off the rails. So, how have the last seven days gone for you? Did you ace it? Or end up face down in a pint of ice cream? Maybe it was a mix of the two. Some successes with a...

The island’s top magistrate said yesterday it was “mind-boggling” that he had nowhere other than prison to send a man with mental health and drug problems who admitted punching his mother. Senior magistrate Juan Wolffe added that it was “astounding”...

The Bermuda Hospitals Board in experiencing “a high number of people being admitted with complications from suspected and confirmed flu”. A statement follows: Dr Michael Richmond, Chief of Staff and Acting CEO, comments: “What is most concerning is ...

Christians aren’t immune to depression and suicide. Despite that, mental illness is not something the church usually talks about. “Christians go through many battles and some of these can be the struggle with mental health issues/illness,” said Isis ...

Almost $230,000 a year is being shelled out to treat a violent child sex offender in Britain, The Royal Gazette can reveal. An agreement reached between the Bermuda Hospitals Board and St Andrew’s Healthcare in England to provide mental health servic...