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An annual $5,000 medical scholarship in memory of a top eye doctor has gone to a Bermudian student looking to bring her skills back to the island after qualifying at a top Caribbean medical school. Deja Tucker, 23, said the Bermuda International Inst...

Growing up on Cox’s Hill, Pembroke, Wilma Frith longed to become a nurse. “When I was playing with my dolls, they were always my patients,” the 85-year-old remembered. But she had to wait a long time to see her dream become reality. After high scho...

Vaxism I think we are witnessing a blue eyes, brown eyes experiment that no one could have predicted. The Oprah Show was not one of my favourites, but there were two episodes that are etched in my memory. The “you get a car” happy episode wh...

When a doctor’s 93-year-old grandmother was admitted to hospital with Covid-19, he knew there was not much that could be done to help her. Kyjuan Brown knew treatment options for people with the coronavirus were very limited. But he was aware of a ch...

Faith Burgess-Clarke 1929-2021 Bermuda’s first chiropractor who “broke barriers” as a Black woman in the field has died at 92. Faith Burgess-Clarke also served in the Adult Education Society and the Professional Women’s Club. Deeply religious an...

“Vaccine hesitancy” is being switched for “vaccine acceptance”, the House of Assembly was told yesterday. Measures against the coronavirus pandemic came up for discussion as MPs approved an emergency restrictions, which would have expired next Wednes...

A former director of pathology at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital has died. Keith Cunningham, the hospital’s first Black staff doctor when he joined in 1970, was 86. Dr Cunningham dedicated his career to the development pathology in Bermuda. He al...

A call for new blood donors has been made after donations were impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. The Bermuda Blood Donor Centre team asked residents to “give the gift of life” and become a blood donor “even if they have not donated before”. A Ber...

A family story of how EF Gordon, a civil rights hero and doctor, saved the life of five-year-old Mansfield “Jim” Brock inspired Mr Brock’s son to study medicine. The 83-year-old story came full circle when last month Malcolm Brock was appointed the E...

Two friends and eyesight healthcare students are the first winners of scholarships set up in memory of an eye surgeon who died last year. Katrina Hassell, 25, and 26-year-old Trae Trott have been awarded $5,000 Leonard Teye-Botchway awards to help fu...

Bermuda has its first forensic physician, Amne Osseyran. St George’s born and bred, it is there that she has always wanted to set up her practice. In March, she joined Andrew West as a GP at Adler Lodge, his offices on Water Street. Time in Kingston,...

When Karen Simons first went into holistic healing, she wasn’t sure how things would go. Was there enough interest in Bermuda in alternative therapies like cupping, acupuncture and transpersonal psychotherapy? “I had enough money saved, so that I co...