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Cavity City is a dark and dreary place. People go in with pearly whites and come out with rotten, stained and missing teeth. To get there, all you’ve got to do is stop brushing and flossing regularly. La-Vawn Simons tours the sights in a children’s ...

Three drug treatment programmes have been awarded international accreditation, the Minister of Social Development and Sport said yesterday. Michael Weeks told Parliament that the Women’s Treatment Centre, the Men’s Treatment Centre and Turning Point ...

The cost of the Bermuda Government’s lawsuit against American-based medical group Lahey could reach $4 million, a former attorney-general has warned. Progressive Labour Party MP Michael Scott, a lawyer with legal practice Browne, Scott, told Parliam...

After more than a decade of running a business, new mother Jennifer Ward was looking for a way to connect. She rebranded marketing company E-media in October. Inspired Limited then moved into Sofia House on Church Street. Ms Ward, who has been teachi...

A war of words broke out in the Senate yesterday over cuts in fees for MRI and CT medical scans. Andrew Simons of the One Bermuda Alliance said Kim Wilson, the Minister of Health, had lied when she claimed the OBA ignored technical recommendations wh...

As Valentine’s Day is upon us, there tends to be a focus on all things sweet and/or chocolate. Coincidentally, I just finished reviewing the Consultation document produced by the Government’s Ministry of Health in connection with the proposed sugar ...

Former world boxing champion Teresa Perozzi called on police yesterday to drop an investigation into a birth companion who helped her to have a baby at home without medics present. Sophia Cannonier, a non-medical birth supporter known as a doula, was...

A cruise ship diverted to Bermuda yesterday to drop off a sick passenger. A Bermuda Maritime Operations Centre spokesman said the agent for Royal Caribbean’s Anthem of the Seas told them on Tuesday evening that the ship would change course for Bermu...

After years of therapy, it took three words to give Rolisa Camille the power she needed: I am enough. She taped the sentence to her mirror three years ago, determined it would make a difference; she’s now offering the “life-changing” therapy to the i...

Danielle Gibbons and Chevon Burrows have grown since they were taken on at an island florist. The two landed jobs at Demco last year as part of the Mid-Atlantic Wellness Institute’s learning disability programme and both said work had helped them bec...

Free health screenings are to be held for the public in advance of an event designed to help halt the problems of obesity and diabetes. The screenings, all in Hamilton, started yesterday at the Queen Elizabeth Park in Queen Street. More will be held ...

Poorer families will not be unfairly targeted by a sugar tax, the Ministry of Health said yesterday. The consultation paper on the tax explained that the proposal is designed to help people be healthier and discourage importers from bringing in high...