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Throughout the week, we have been highlighting how it is becoming increasingly difficult for many people in Bermuda to make ends meet. This newspaper’s The Cost of Living series has shown how electricity bills have gone up 70 percent in eight years, ...

Seniors excluded from Government financial assistance have been made eligible again. A stipulation in the 2004 Financial Assistance Regulations, which blocked struggling seniors who owned their own homes from receiving help, has been rolled back, eff...

Wednesday’s story about the surge in demand for food from needy families illustrates the harrowing effects of the recession. But it also demonstrates just how generous Bermudians can be, and that they recognise that they are their brother’s (and sist...

Government Senator LaVerne Furbert says there’s “nothing new about poverty” as she was a single mom forced to put her children’s needs before her own. Sen Furbert used her own personal struggle of bringing up two sons to support her argument that “po...

“I have faith that change is coming.” This was the final statement in a moving documentary about poverty in Bermuda, first released to the public at the Bermuda Documentary Film Festival. The film will be shown again tonight, at the Liberty Theatre. ...

A group of Bermudians are travelling to Cambodia in February to build houses for those in need in one of the world’s poorest countries. And they are offering Bermudians a chance to give an “alternative Christmas present” a $100 water well. Group le...