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For many years, Bermuda was able to boast that it had among the highest per capita incomes in the world, one of the highest standards of living in the world, overemployment and virtually no poverty. That’s not to say that there was no poverty, or th...

In a letter in today’s newspaper, Nicola Feldman, of The Coalition for the Protection of Children, calls for the introduction of a Poverty Reduction Strategy Plan. In an editorial last week, this newspaper called for the consideration of a ‘poverty s...

Throughout the week, we have been highlighting how it is becoming increasingly difficult for many people in Bermuda to make ends meet. This newspaper’s The Cost of Living series has shown how electricity bills have gone up 70 percent in eight years, ...

Seniors excluded from Government financial assistance have been made eligible again. A stipulation in the 2004 Financial Assistance Regulations, which blocked struggling seniors who owned their own homes from receiving help, has been rolled back, eff...

Wednesday’s story about the surge in demand for food from needy families illustrates the harrowing effects of the recession. But it also demonstrates just how generous Bermudians can be, and that they recognise that they are their brother’s (and sist...

Government Senator LaVerne Furbert says there’s “nothing new about poverty” as she was a single mom forced to put her children’s needs before her own. Sen Furbert used her own personal struggle of bringing up two sons to support her argument that “po...