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An international expert on autism will be hosting workshops in Bermuda as part of Autism Awareness Month. Lori Ernsperger will be speaking about practical strategies for including students with autistic spectrum disorder and implementing applied beh...

Bald for a cause: Saltus shavees have raised more than $226,000 so far this year for childhood cancer research funded by the St Baldrick’s Foundation. On March 18, more than 100 had their heads shaved in the Alumni Hall at Saltus Grammar School to ra...

The Bermuda Optical Company is celebrating 60 years of business by donating $6,000 to local charities. Managing director Timothy Kempe and vice-president Nicholas Comber presented $3,000 cheques to both the Bermuda Society for the Blind and the Salva...

Sometimes you have to create your own opportunities. It’s a lesson Yana Swainson learnt the hard way. She returned to the island in 2012 assuming she had everything in place to find employment: a university degree and six years’ work experience gaine...

A new radiation therapy initiative will allow cancer patients to receive comprehensive treatment on the island. Bermuda Cancer and Health Centre and the Bermuda Hospitals Board have teamed up to offer the service, which was announced at a press conf...

Two professions represented by the Bermuda Medical Council and the Dental Board were involved in legal action for professional misconduct last year, according to the Bermuda Health Council. Another six professions received complaints about profession...

Alison Soares felt a tremendous sense of relief when her mother was admitted to Agape House. Hillary Soares was in the final stages of Lou Gehrig’s disease. She struggled to breathe, had a feeding tube and couldn’t move. The irony was that the 70-yea...

Hundreds of people turned out yesterday to walk in support of the cancer charity Pals. It was the island’s 28th annual “Walk With Me for Cancer Care”, which raised more than $20,000 last year. The yearly walk is a major fundraiser for Pals, with proc...

John Wight, president and CEO of the BF&M Insurance Group, will be honoured at this year’s Salute to Service Award presentations at the Bermuda Health Foundation’s 14th Luncheon on June 17. The Salute to Service Award is presented yearly to a member ...

Two companies have been removed from a list of businesses without active health insurance policies after providing proof to the Bermuda Health Council. While one business, Pinky’s Salon, stated that they should never have been included on the list, t...

A number of employers have been publicly listed by the Bermuda Health Council as having inactive or terminated health insurance. Since last June, the BHeC has been publishing the names of employers who do not have insurance for their employees on the...

A cancer fundraising initiative for Bermuda’s first radiation treatment facility has been given a $5,000 windfall from the Orange Bay Company consignment business. Rudolph and Delight Morris gave the donation to the Bermuda Cancer and Health Centre, ...