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Bermuda lacks a legal framework covering adults with intellectual disabilities — from safeguarding the vulnerable to rules surrounding giving consent for treatment. A town hall meeting this week reviewed the continuing work for a national plan coveri...

Charitable rest homes hit by the Covid-19 pandemic have received a welcome cash injection totalling $200,000. The donation to four rest homes was made by the Lady Cubitt Compassionate Association, and will be used to buy medical equipment and person...

A labour of love by an insurance executive who lost his wife to cancer is closing in on a half-million dollars raised for research into the disease. Kevin Maloney, who has run in Bermuda events to raise funds for children’s cancer charity St Baldrick...

The highly controversial Travel Authorisation form will stay in place even if all other emergency Covid measures are dropped because the Government needs the money it generates, a senator has said. Arianna Hodgson, junior health and finance minister,...

Another person has died from Covid-19 in the past week, bringing the total number of fatalities from the virus to 138. In a statement, Kim Wilson, the Minister of Health, last night extended her condolences to the family and friends of the deceased, ...

No cases of monkeypox have been reported in Bermuda despite outbreaks in other countries, the Ministry of Health said. Kim Wilson, the health minister, added that officials were ready to recognise the virus and to take “appropriate action”. She expla...

A medical service has donated $1,000 to help the family of a couple whose lives were claimed in an explosion at their Southampton residence this month. Bermuda Healthcare Services gave $1,000 to assist relatives of Oscar and Jove Mascarinas. The husb...

More than 30 people who took part in a two-week military training exercise in North Carolina, USA, which included the Royal Bermuda Regiment, tested positive for Covid-19, it has emerged. An RBR spokesman said that 13 people on the trip back to the i...

A drop in the number of people getting annual health checks has been noted since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, the health minister said. Kim Wilson told the House of Assembly yesterday that new patient preventive care check-ups in adults under ...

The island has recorded two more Covid-related deaths, bringing the number of fatalities from the virus to 137. There were also 307 new cases recorded from 9,183 tests carried out in the past week, giving a positivity rate of 3.3 per cent. There have...