Government has no "overarching" strategy to help homeless people, it has admitted — but it hopes data collected in the recent census will help it "plan the way forward".
The authorities also don't kee...
A story on homeless seniors published in The Royal Gazette on August 9 prompted Health Minister Walter Roban to release a statement insisting that Government was working to help those without shelter....
Work has begun on a plan to implement Bermuda's new public access to information (PATI) law, Government announced last night.
Culture and Social Rehabilitation permanent secretary Wayne Carey has been...
A gang interventionist insisted yesterday that Bermuda's gangsters "definitely want peace" but said it couldn't happen without Government funding for mediation.
Pastor Leroy Bean, founder of anti-gang...
Gangs could be receptive to mediation but it would need to be led by people "on a street level", according to community activist Carlton Simmons.
The Youth on the Move (YOM) president told The Royal G...
Lionel Cann has been organising the Salvation Army's daily soup run in Hamilton for more than a decade — but he still gets upset when he talks about the plight of the homeless.
Six evenings a week, he...
A stack of tasteful grey pamphlets titled "Ageing Gracefully and with Dignity" sits on a table in the reception of the National Office for Seniors and the Physically Challenged on Victoria Street.
Dir...
Gunshots rang out in Middle Terrace in Pembroke on Friday evening but no one appears to have been hurt.
Pembroke South East MP Ashfield DeVent, who lives on nearby Friswells Road, told The Royal Gazet...
A meeting will take place today between management, union officials and staff at the government quarry in Bailey's Bay after workers downed tools last week.
Stephen Outerbridge, acting permanent secre...
The majority of Bermuda's homeless population may be elderly, according to the executive director of Age Concern — but the Island lacks a dedicated facility to house them.
Claudette Fleming told The R...
