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It is with no little satisfaction and a sizeable helping of humility that we can now signal the death knell for dark-tinted helmet visors and their mirrored cousins that also conceal identity. The campaign that we have waged since the MoneyShop robb...

A review of pension arrangements by the Bermuda Government could adversely affect employees’ eventual windfalls, according to statistician Cordell Riley. Speaking after the Throne Speech, Mr Riley claimed that “what has not been said is more importan...

Plans to galvanise laws protecting the elderly and vulnerable have been welcomed. However, two leading figures representing Bermuda’s senior population have expressed disappointment that several more key issues were not brought to the table. In the c...

Bermuda does not have the infrastructure to support people requiring long-term care in a community setting, according to Claudette Fleming. The executive director of charity Age Concern was responding to the announcement in the Throne Speech that the...

Age Concern has called on the Bermuda Government to show that it is in touch with the Island’s social issues as it prepares to deliver its fourth Throne Speech tomorrow. Claudette Fleming, the charity’s director, said that the “tone, intent and relev...

“Sleep,” said the old gentleman, “he’s always asleep. Goes on errands fast asleep, and snores as he waits at tables.” “How very odd!” said Mr Pickwick, for Joe was constantly hungry, very red in the face and is always falling asleep in the middle of ...

The Bermuda Legion is aiming to create a residential care facility for seniors with dementia or Alzheimer’s disease — in a move that could also help save the cash-strapped Focus charity. Jerry’s House in St George’s is owned by Focus, the addiction t...

Norma Latham never would have guessed that her rotis could raise thousands of dollars for charity. She’d been making the flatbread since she was a child in her native Guyana. Five years ago she learnt about the work Bermuda Overseas Missions was doin...

American eels have for the first time been tracked migrating to the Sargasso Sea, off the coast of Bermuda. According to a recent scientific article published in Nature Communications this week, Canadian researchers tagged a number of endangered Amer...

Age Concern remains “deeply concerned” that seniors in Bermuda will not be able to afford health insurance in the future due to the rising cost of premiums. The charity hosted a second public meeting this week, following on from its Annual General Me...

Bermuda’s poor and vulnerable will be impacted the most if the Bermuda Government decides to cut resources across the Island’s three remaining community centres. This is the view of the founder and chairwoman of the Coalition for the Protection of C...

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Am I really dedicating the last article in this series (more on that later) to a well-worn cliché? The answer is yes, but with a new twist. Allow me to explain … Screening is used to identify the possi...