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A top name in Bermudian broadcasting retired from the industry yesterday, 50 years after she started her career.
Darlene Livingston celebrated with Bermuda Broadcasting Company colleagues and received congratulations from David Burt, the Premier, and...
DATE: Dec 14, 2019
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A child welfare campaigner has claimed that Bermuda might be “so far behind, that we’re ahead” in services for young people with problem behaviour.
Sheelagh Cooper, the founder and former executive director of the Coalition for the Protection of Chil...
DATE: Dec 13, 2019
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The protection of children is expected to be discussed at the next meeting of Overseas Territories leaders, Government House revealed yesterday.
Government House said that child safeguarding was a high priority and one that had been “consistent” amon...
DATE: Dec 13, 2019
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Patients waited on average about 11 hours for a hospital ward bed in October — almost double the time recorded a month earlier.
Some were forced to stay in corridors as staff at the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital battled to cope with “sustained in...
DATE: Dec 13, 2019
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An overseas territory stopped sending children with behavioural issues to residential centres abroad more than a decade ago because young people struggled to return to the communities they left behind.
Laurel Freeman, a social worker in the British V...
DATE: Dec 12, 2019
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A couple asked a court to consider whether they should be awarded compensation after their three-year-old son was unlawfully seized by police from their home on the instructions of the island’s child protection agency.
The American pair sought unspec...
DATE: Dec 12, 2019
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Children’s groups hope the Government will provide more information about the newly established panel of litigation guardians.
They said yesterday that questions about funding and the selection process remained unanswered.
Scott Pearman, the shadow l...
DATE: Dec 12, 2019
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A lawyer who worked pro bono in India, South Africa and the United States was urged to keep up the practice when he was Called to the Bermuda Bar this week.
Lewis Preston helped asylum seekers as part of his volunteer work at the start of his career....
DATE: Dec 12, 2019
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Pupils from senior schools told the Governor and his guests about the importance of freedom of expression on International Human Rights Day.
The 13 teenagers were invited to Government House for a youth forum on Tuesday to highlight the leadership ro...
DATE: Dec 12, 2019
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Bermudian children have been sent to overseas treatment centres for decades — but it has only come to wider public attention in recent years.
As far back as at least 1984 — and until 2017 — boys from Bermuda were sent to the embattled Glen Mills Scho...
DATE: Dec 11, 2019
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