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For Tash Pethick, this Friday’s cancer fundraiser for St Baldrick’s carries a sense of personal mission. Ms Pethick has already raised nearly $10,000 for the St Baldrick’s charity cause — inspired by a close friend’s battle with stage two breast canc...

Government’s pension fund for civil servants remains under review, but its cost of living adjustment, suspended last year, will stay off the table “until further notice”. Presenting the actuarial report into the Public Service Superannuation Fund (PS...

Elderly patients are being abandoned at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital, causing a shortage of beds that has led to the postponement of surgeries, Health Minister Jeanne Atherden told the House of Assembly. “Our hospital is being used as a residenc...

The decision to bypass war veterans and pay their pensions directly to nursing homes has been faulted as a cutback targeting an especially undeserving group. Carol Everson, a welfare case worker for the Bermuda Legion, conceded that reductions might ...

Bermuda’s failure to meet its own goals for spending cuts is “unfortunate” and “will not play out well with rating agencies and our creditors”, according to Grant Gibbons, the Minister for Economic Development. Under the middle-term expenditure frame...

Some of Bermuda’s dwindling population of war veterans will see a change in their pensions, starting next month, as their cheques are applied to care expenses. According to the Bermuda Legion, just over 200 veterans in the Island have been receiving ...

Ambulance services are now present at both ends of the Island, Premier Michael Dunkley has announced alongside Health Minister Jeanne Atherden. “While the Bermuda Fire and Rescue Service emergency medical technicians could respond from multiple loc...

Get ready to turn down the lights — Earth Hour is approaching. The global event, on March 28, raises awareness about energy conservation — and this year it has linked up with Waterfront Properties Limited. Hamilton will turn dark for an hour, allowi...

Extra spending alone won’t translate into better results, Education Minister Wayne Scott told Parliament yesterday, defending the $127 million allocated — a drop of five per cent. Mr Scott called the amount acceptable for the public school system’s r...

Bermuda was called “the Isles of the Blest” by Mark Twain, who often holidayed here in his later years — deeming the Island “the right place for a jaded man to loaf in”. Those Bermudian sojourns are among the travels commemorated at the Mark Twain Ho...