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Residents gathered at Pier 6 last night sporting a variety of colourful wigs, head accessories and hairstyles to help to raise cash for cancer charity PALS as part of the fourth annual Mad Hair Day. Staff and students at businesses and schools acros...

Karen Dyer was a little bit reluctant when PALS asked her to come on board as executive director. She’d just started a doctoral degree, which she hoped would support the work she was doing as a nurse, bereavement counsellor and art therapist. Then sh...

For cancer awareness week at Saltus in mid-March, the Saltus Lower Primary Year Coordinators — Jan Shaw (S2), Heather Trimingham (S1) and Samantha Willis (Foundation Year) — together with Director of Lower Primary, Shelly Sayers, came up with the ide...

After three decades championing the cause of cancer patients, Ann Smith Gordon is leaving PALS. The 79-year-old is ready to take a breather — she’ll walk away from the charity’s Point Finger Road offices as soon as a replacement is found. “I am not r...

It seems a bit cruel. You get the all-clear from cancer, and along comes depression. About one-third of all people with cancer are significantly affected, according to radiation oncologist Robert Rutledge. The Canadian specialist believes if the situ...

Teenager Sachio Harrison wanted to raise money for cancer charities but knew his efforts alone wouldn’t be enough. He inspired the entire student body at Somersfield Academy to help him achieve his goal and together they raised $16,785.66. The money ...

Pinky Steede is coming home. The veteran singer, who now lives in Portugal, will perform at a gala fundraiser for cancer charity PALS later this month. “I last performed in Bermuda a few years ago at the Jazz Festival, and I am very excited and looki...

Roslyn Simmons has been growing her hair for 12 years, but will soon be bald. She’s happy about that. The first thing she plans to do when her hair is gone is go down to the ocean, plunge underwater and revel in not having to worry about messing up h...

The results are in and Bermuda Bookstore owner Hannah Willmott is now sporting fish bowl blue hair and her sister, Miriam Kaye, has hot hot pink hair. The two raised more than $600 for cancer charity PALS by asking customers to place a $1 a vote for ...