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Con artists have targeted the elderly in a string of scams, police warned yesterday. A spokesman highlighted one senior who was contacted by someone who persuaded them to invest “a significant amount of money” in a US business. But it was later foun...

A former nurse’s aide convicted of senior abuse after she hurled a bottle at a senior suffering from dementia has lost an appeal against conviction. While Rose Belboda accepted that she had thrown an air freshener bottle at a 72-year-old patient at K...

Seventy years after their wedding day and Kenneth Simmons still describes his wife Gloria as his true love match. “I have the feeling it was sort of meant to be,” the 95-year-old said. “Everything sort of fell in place for us to be married but the ma...

Government has consistently fallen short on addressing long-term care for seniors, the executive director of Age Concern Bermuda charged this week. Claudette Fleming spoke after the continued shortage of hospital beds at King Edward VII Memorial Hosp...

A home-grown community festival celebrating some of Bermuda’s legendary musicians was deemed a hit as it closed this weekend. John Burch, the last active member of the Bermuda Strollers, was joined by June Caisey at Saturday’s show, entertaining an a...

George and Sandra Ogden were in Australia visiting family when Covid-19 was declared a pandemic last year. Because of the ensuing quarantine and travel restrictions, what was meant to be a six-month stay soon stretched to eighteen. “We were supposed...

In 1977, looking to drum up investors in his company, Mike Marsh hit the seminar circuit. Having never done much public speaking the thought of doing it in front of audiences of hundreds of people terrified him but, with Troy Associates on the line, ...

Thanks to Covid-19, Sue Moench has had a challenging final year as principal of Mount Saint Agnes Academy. Her work day begins at 6.10am, when she has to ensure that traffic can move freely around the school. She then turns her hand to helping take...

“The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.” ― Frank Lloyd Wright For a long time, I sought motivation. I read books about how to be rich and famous or how to achieve goals or how to change habits. Books helped me, but I didn't feel the auth...

Fewer than 40 per cent of staff in long-term care centres have full immunisation against Covid-19, health ministry estimates have revealed. The ministry, in response to a public access to information request from The Royal Gazette, said an estimated...

Every Halloween children descend on Raymond Madeiros’s Devonshire home “like locusts”. So many come to trick or treat and see the goblins, headless horsemen and snakes in his Melville Road yard, he has someone stand at the front gate to make sure the...

Families of seniors were yesterday warned to be on the lookout for signs of elder abuse after a total of 87 cases were reported in the 12 months up to March. Tinee Furbert, the Minister of Social Development, said 30 per cent of reported cases involv...