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With seemingly less money in everyone’s pockets right now, you might think charities would find crucial donations even harder to come by. You’d be wrong, according to the Salvation Army, which has observed residents being more generous even as econom...

Being poor is no barrier to being happy, explained married couple Glenn and Althea Iris as they spoke to Tim Smith as part of The Royal Gazette’s The Cost of Living series. He squats in an abandoned property with his wife and hasn’t had a regular jo...

Bermuda’s reliance on fossil fuels is largely to blame for a huge hike in household electricity bills, according to environmentalists BEST. The average family’s monthly Belco bill has jumped from $185 to $312 in the space of eight years, an increase ...

The number of people on financial assistance has nearly doubled in the past seven years, and the amount they’re receiving has dramatically increased. Government figures show 1,375 people are claiming assistance, up from 1,350 last year, and a rise of...

When your monthly wages are $900 and your monthly rent is $900, to say you haven’t got much money to play with is a bit of an understatement. That’s the problem currently faced by Miss X, a single mother who often has to go without food herself so he...

Families campaigner Martha Dismont yesterday urged grocers to reduce their prices amid fears many more people are dropping below the poverty line. Ms Dismont claimed the average single parent with one child now has to spend $7,000 per year on basic f...

Fifty dollars didn’t exactly go a long way in Bermuda’s supermarkets ten years ago. It goes a much shorter distance today. The Royal Gazette embarked on a food shopping trip to see what you could get for $50 using 2002 prices, and repeated the task u...

Soaring numbers of families and seniors are finding it impossible to cope with rocketing food prices, charities warned yesterday. Age Concern called for tax breaks for the elderly after noting the cost of staple items such as bread, potatoes and rice...

Bighearted readers of The Royal Gazette have donated thousands of dollars in little more than a week to help an elderly widow with dementia receive care in her own home. The LCCA (Lady Cubitt Compassionate Association), which has agreed to collect mo...