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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...