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The Salvation Army has new leadership in Bermuda. Majors Rob and Shelley Kerr, a husband and wife team, arrived in Bermuda this month and will complete their Covid-19 quarantines this week. Mr Kerr will be divisional commander and Ms Kerr will be d...

A feeding programme at the Anglican Cathedral has been given a $10,000 boost by the Corporation of Hamilton. Charles Gosling, the Mayor, made the presentation yesterday to the Rt Rev Nicholas Dill, Anglican Bishop of Bermuda, on the steps of City Hal...

Covid-19 has exposed the extent of poverty on the island, frontline workers have claimed. Rachel Dill, the director of client services at the Coalition for the Protection of Children, said even two-parent families with full-time jobs had been forced ...

Seniors struggling with debt are appearing in court more and more, a top judge has warned. Senior magistrate Juan Wolffe said he was “concerned” by an apparent increase in elderly debtors landing in court. He added that limited pensions to cover heal...

International author Chuck Collins will speak about tackling inequality at a public forum next Monday. Mr Collins has been brought to the island by the Bermuda Community Foundation to meet with economists, bankers and philanthropists, as well as expe...

Inequality activist Chuck Collins will take part in a breakfast panel discussion hosted by the Bermuda Community Foundation next week. The BCF has brought Mr Collins, an international author, to Bermuda to meet with students, philanthropists, financi...

Dear Sir, I quote the Sam Strangeways article in The Royal Gazette on July 22. She attributed “two Bermudas” as a reference not to race but to the “haves and have-notes” in society. They are the same, so why try to draw a distinction? The vast major...

By certain measures, Bermuda’s economy is on the road to recovery — but for some sections of society the patient remains as sick as ever. The Royal Gazette visited the island’s newest feeding programme to speak with guests, and asked charity workers ...

Radical reform to payroll tax could address Bermuda’s growing inequality problems, according to economist Craig Simmons. The island’s “working poor” — already blighted by stagnating pay packets and declining income — also have to pay a larger percent...

The new school term is fast approaching — and the Caines brothers have teamed up with 5 star Barbershop once again for their annual Back 2 School Extravaganza. Hundreds of children will be able to get a free haircut and school supplies at St Paul’s C...

Tenants due to be evicted today by the Bermuda Housing Corporation for unpaid rent have been given a last-minute reprieve. Locks were due to be changed today at the Gulfstream transitional living complex for residents owing at least $10,000 each for ...

Mark Twain, arguably Bermuda’s first and most celebrated repeat visitor, didn’t overstate matters at all when he remarked that lack of money is actually the root of all evil. Twain’s wry assessment is borne out by the direct and indirect effects of t...