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Six care homes and 14 daycare centres have been affected in the latest wave of coronavirus infections, a Government spokeswoman said. She added that a dozen of the childcare facilities had closed. Kim Wilson, the Minister of Health, said on Sunday th...

David Ker has been charming visitors at the St George’s Historical Society for 24 years. The replica 18th-century press in the basement of Mitchell House on Duke of Kent Street is his baby. The 79-year-old loves demonstrating how the press once worke...

Increases in government health insurance premiums will not mean automatic jumps in rates for private insurance, experts have said. Michelle Jackson, the executive vice-president of insurance giant BF&M’s life and health department, said the company h...

A charity focused on the wellbeing of seniors has moved into a new headquarters. Ministers and MPs from across the aisle welcomed Age Concern into their new headquarters near Admiralty House in Pembroke yesterday. Many of them who were aged 50 and ol...

Leleath Bailey used to love going to the Kiwanis Club’s annual convention in Massachusetts. A self-described “people person”, she enjoyed making friends however this year she was a little hesitant. “With the pandemic, I said I am not going,” she said...

All the social distancing during the pandemic has made some people antsy, but not Conchita Ming. She loves being at home where she always has a project on the go. Most recently she traced a branch of her family back to Tom Munson, a slave born in Afr...

Visiting the Isle of Wight in 1949, Kay Latter wanted to build a sand castle. “I was probably about seven,” the 79 year old said. “There was a lovely, sandy beach, but it was so full of litter that I could not build a sand castle. I was digging up tr...

People often crane their necks as they drive past Robert ‘Ice Water’ Smith’s house on Vesey Street in Devonshire. They are not looking for him; they are checking out the clock on his balcony. It is not a particularly big clock, or a fancy one, but it...

Older people will suffer most from a drawn-out bus strike, a charity leader warned yesterday. Claudette Fleming, the executive director of Age Concern, said seniors depended more on public transport than other age groups and no bus service made thei...

Issues affecting the housing, wellbeing and safety of Bermuda’s seniors were discussed during a recent government-led visit to an independent living complex. Tinee Furbert, the Minister of Social Development and Seniors was joined at Dr Cann Park in...

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...

More than 1,000 seniors are receiving financial assistance, according to Government figures. Tinee Furbert, the minister of social development and seniors, yesterday said that 1,037 seniors were currently received aid from the Department of Financial...