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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...

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...

Children as young as 9 have been sent to a psychiatric hospital some 2,500 miles away for clinical assessments. A spokeswoman for the University of Utah’s Neuropsychiatric Institute confirmed the hospital had examined 29 of the island’s minors in the...

A top child protection agency in the United States said that Bermuda faced an “additional burden” in the monitoring of overseas residential programmes used for the island’s young people because of its distance from the institutions. Christine James-B...

Performances by ten young people won them the chance to showcase their talents in the next round of a music and singing contest. They will take part in the On Stage competition as part of the Bermuda Festival in February. Vocalists Dakota Tucker, Eli...

A life-changing centre for homeless mothers and children could be open by the middle of next year, its founders have revealed. The Transformational Living Centre for Families was created because of a need for accommodation and support to help young w...

An independent education authority for Bermuda’s schools is under consideration, the House of Assembly heard last Friday. Diallo Rabain, the Minister of Education, said the Government was exploring a recommendation made in the Future State Report fro...

A team from Warwick Academy beat 24 other teams from seven high schools to win a race for cardboard boats at the weekend. Lisamarie Masters, the president of the Institute of Bermuda Architects, which organised the event with the Bermuda Association ...

An Opposition senator vowed to be the change that he believes voters want as he campaigned to become the island’s newest MP. Dwayne Robinson, of the One Bermuda Alliance, admitted he faced an “uphill battle” to win the Pembroke Central by-election ne...

Elections were held yesterday for officer and executive positions at the Bermuda Union of Teachers. Hundreds of members attended the organisation’s annual conference at the Hamilton Princess & Beach Club. The event provided professional development o...