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A new care centre for young adults will be up and running later this year, the social development minister has promised. Tinée Furbert said that the new centre would ensure that children under the care of the Department of Child and Family Services w...

When Bernard Stemphlet started working as a pastry chef at the Hamilton Princess half a century ago, the hotel was serving 1,000 dinners a night. “That was pretty typical of hotels in Bermuda in the 1970s,” the 69-year-old said. Food was cheap; when ...

The pandemic has put Anita Bean’s dream job on hold. After a long career in government she took early retirement in 1998 and decided to do something to make people smile. Thinking how the flowers her husband Quinton brought her had always made her ha...

Susan Conyers says the secret to propagating roses is patience – a lot of patience

Mindful of all that that seniors have contributed, 18-year-old Sari Smith decided to give something back

“Love boxes” were handed out to more than 100 of the island’s seniors this week, courtesy of a group of teenagers eager to give back. Members of the Youth Library’s Teen Advisory Board packaged a selection of “essentials” that were delivered in time ...

The Progressive Labour Party has always stood for affordable housing for our people. In Bermuda’s economy, it is easier said than done, but in all of our administrations we have been committed to securing more inventory to house our people. The Lough...

A Cabinet minister said she was motivated to get into politics to get “a foot in the door” to help vulnerable people. Tinée Furbert highlighted that she gained valuable experience in the field because she worked in psychiatric hospitals and with disa...

Colin Young is one of the few remaining survivors of a deadly fire at Mount Allison University eighty years ago. Four students died, countless others were injured throwing themselves from upper level windows to escape the blaze. “It was the early hou...

Comments made by a pastor who questioned the moral compass of politicians were “very hurtful”, a frontbencher said. Tinée Furbert, the Minister of Social Development and Seniors, added that the clergy was expected to show forgiveness. Her remarks cam...

For their first wedding anniversary Tony and Patricia Correia decided to splurge on dinner and a movie. The newlyweds took a taxi into Hamilton instead of pedalling; at the Jungle Room, a popular spot on Queen Street, they watched a live band. “They ...

At 77 Sally Godet is still at work, bottling and selling jams. She reckons she has produced between 50,000 and 60,000 jars of Sallie’s Bermuda Preserves since she started the company in the 1990s. She is always amused when people remark that it must ...