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It’s Budget time. Brace yourselves, people. But while you do, spare a thought for our seniors. It will be revealing to see whether they will merit a line or two in today’s Budget Statement. They ought to; maybe even a paragraph or two. They have iss...

Age Concern is set to host a four-week historical seminar series to help seniors understand their civic rights. To be held from 10am to 1pm every Wednesday between March 2 and 23, each session will cost $20 for members and $30 for non-members (includ...

A funeral will be held today for Grace Smith, a “matriarch” of St George’s known to many for her generosity. Ms Smith, who died on February 10 at the age of 98, “believed in charity more than anything else”, her daughter Rose Douglas recalled. “She t...

Stagnant salaries and rising living costs are the real reasons why many poorer residents cannot afford groceries, a community advocate has claimed. Sheelagh Cooper from the Coalition for the Protection of Children spoke after The Royal Gazette reveal...

Sharon and Wayne Scott pledged to stay together for better or worse — and they’ve honoured that for 45 years. The couple lived next door to each other as children but didn’t meet until mutual friends invited them to go Christmas carolling. “I was aro...

Gender-based research has shown that in matters of the heart, sex differences abound. One striking example is the transient heart condition known as “broken-heart syndrome”. In this condition, more than 90 per cent of reported cases are in women age...

A senior citizen has been fined $800 and handed a 12-month road ban after refusing to provide a breath sample following a crash. Magistrates’ Court heard this morning that Nathaniel Outerbridge was involved in a two-vehicle collision on Knapton Hill ...

Kathlyn Dyer had to rely on old-fashioned elbow grease for a good part of her life. She had two choices if she wanted to get somewhere: walk or pedal. It wasn’t until she’d had her seventh child that she got a washing machine; prior to that she had w...

Healthy and able seniors should be allowed to continue working without discrimination, a Human Rights Commission representative declared at a meeting in Hamilton last night. Sarah Clifford, education officer at the Commission, spoke out at a forum on...

The Department of E-Commerce is set host Safer Internet Day next week, reminding seniors how to stay secure online. The second annual free event will take place on Tuesday at Somersfield Academy from 10am to 1pm. Visitors can learn about scams aimed ...

Albert Churm is a lifelong sports junkie who has won trophies for everything from boxing to golf. But his proudest achievement is his jockey career which spanned the 1950s and 1960s. “No bragging, but I was one of Bermuda’s best,” said the 83-year-ol...

The Peace and Social Justice Committee of the Roman Catholic Church of Bermuda will host a forum focusing on ageing on the Island this week. The forum is set to be the first in a series, and will feature Bishop Wesley Spiewak, Age Concern’s Claudette...