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Seniors and caregivers quizzed a panel of healthcare experts last night on proposed changes to the healthcare system. A standing-room-only crowd turned out for the event organised by island charity Age Concern at the Salvation Army Citadel on North ...

An event focusing on proposed healthcare reforms will be held tomorrow, the executive director of Age Concern has said. Claudette Fleming said that the charity had organised the event to help provide information on the Bermuda Health Plan to older i...

These days Leroy Augustus rides a scooter, but for most of his life horses were his preference. It’s how he got his nickname, given at an early age by his parents Albina and Samuel. “My parents called me Poker because I always liked poking around wi...

In his younger years, Bernard Brangman played everything from football to billiards. He was competitive at every turn, most likely because he came from a family that took sports seriously. His brother, George, was “one of Bermuda’s best footballers”...

You name it and Horst Augustinovic collects it — walking sticks, books, stationery from hotels long gone. “This is what you do when you don’t have children,” the 80-year-old joked. But by far, his favourite is his collection of postcards, stamps, e...

As those of you who are regular readers of this column will know, I subscribe to the idea that life itself is a journey and that each of us is free to choose the path that we follow and how we interact with everyone that we meet on that journey, alth...

Staff from the Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA or Authority) recently participated in a donation drive campaign and Charitable Friday denim day to benefit Lefroy House, a government-owned, elder care community in Sandys Parish. BMA staff donated vari...

Gillian Outerbridge was out walking her dog when she spotted a decaying palm. Many people would have just seen a tree with too many dead limbs; she saw potential. The 78-year-old went back, took a photograph and submitted it to the Charman Prize, a ...

For 79 years Elizabeth Gumbs has been a fixture on the organ at First Church of God, Angle Street. In her early days, shortly after the Second World War started, she had to remember to pump the instrument with her foot so that the music could be hear...

No matter what the subject is, everyone always says, “Don’t look back”. For the most part I would agree with this. Looking back is not for the faint of heart, because you either discover things that you might not want to know or, worse, you look bac...

Eighteen years ago, Ernest DeCouto got on a bike, pedalled for about a mile and then gave up, exhausted. His wife, Susan, still laughs at the memory of him falling off while trying to turn the cycle around on Paget’s Bostock Hill. Her husband, howeve...

Seniors were treated to a special tea by the Bermuda Police Service yesterday. Hundreds of attendees enjoyed a light lunch and entertainment at the Hamilton Princess & Beach Club, as part of the Police Week 2019 celebrations. Other events during Poli...