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There is a saying in Trinidad: when steel talks, everybody listens. Peter Harris has had an audience for many years. The Trinidadian was 19 when he played the steel pans for the first time. “It was really beautiful,” he said, explaining how he was wa...

On her 88th birthday, Betty Smith woke to messages on Facebook and WhatsApp. By the end of May 3 she’d received more than 200 phone calls, the most distant came from an old family friend living in South Korea. Although out enjoying the day with her d...

A charity for seniors has revamped its website to help improve access to services. Age Concern said the redesigned ageconcern.bm was easier to use and that visitors would be able to view information and sign up for the charity’s programmes. Callan Ba...

Regulars on the No 2 bus out of Hamilton will likely remember Lynette Waldron. For more than 20 years she was a favourite with Paget Primary School and Gilbert Institute students especially, making them cookies every week, dressing in costume and ens...

A disabilities campaigner has teamed up with a specialist security business and the Government to offer GPS devices at a discount for seniors with memory problems and people with disabilities. LaKiesha Wolffe, of the Disability Centre of Bermuda, Inv...

In 1979 Christine Atcheson’s life was a mess. She had been on the island for three years. Her husband had abandoned her and returned to the UK; she had a toddler to raise on her own. In order to deal, she “went full-on into recreational drugs and al...

“Honour thy mother and thy father so that your days may be long upon the Earth” That biblical verse is a principle that has been upheld in varying degrees by many societies and traditions. Its observation was long estblished on empirical evidenc...

Staff and elderly residents in nursing and care homes have been given bouquets of Easter lilies to help lift their spirits. The Garden Club of Bermuda, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary, teamed up with Pacheco & Sons farm to deliver the flow...

The Ministry of Social Development and Seniors will host an online panel discussion on holistic wellness today. Tinee Furbert, the minister for seniors, said Government had received requests for information on the subject from families and care give...

As a child, Fiona Hatfield’s family dubbed her “little Mary Sunshine”. “I was always happy, chatty and having fun,” the 71-year-old said. “That has always been the nature of my beast, from the get-go.” Her sunny disposition has served her well durin...

A charity dedicated to helping the island’s seniors has been given a $2,500 boost from the Women’s International Shipping and Trade Association. Wista Bermuda has in the past organised a “shoebox gift wrap social” to provide seniors with shoeboxes f...

A family unable to visit a loved one in hospital because of Covid-19 restrictions has appealed for visiting rights for relatives who have the full vaccine. A woman with a relative in the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital said her family was distresse...