135 results returned for search: "education AND " category "Crime"
An inspirational mum is setting up a charity to help provide for the children who have been left fatherless in Bermuda’s spate of shootings.
Grejai Smith is to restructure her No Child Goes Without (NCGW) charity to focus on the “real victims” of Ber...
DATE: May 05, 2011
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Mother-of-four Nekesha Holdipp says she almost never cries.
But the 34-year-old gets emotional when talking about the void daughters Etana, Eshe and Emoy will have in their lives as they grow older.
The girls lost their father Jamaican-Canadian Geor...
DATE: May 05, 2011
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Crime
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Bermuda needs to create a better social contract by creating jobs through a strengthened economy and improved education system,
Shadow National Security Minister Michael Dunkley said yesterday. Senator Dunkley said the only way to tackle gang cultur...
DATE: Apr 19, 2011
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Crime
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
A scammer is attempting to cash in on kindness by falsely claiming to be collecting donations for charity, according to police.
In a statement yesterday , a police spokesman said: “It has come to our attention that an unknown individual has attended ...
DATE: Apr 14, 2011
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Crime
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Last year three teenaged girls and two children were among the 15 victims of sexual assault in Bermuda a three percent increase on 2009, but the real number will be higher as many victims will not report an attack.
Victims are often chosen because th...
DATE: Apr 11, 2011
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Crime
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Adult men are relying on their mothers to stand up for them in court over serious charges because they feel voiceless and emotionally dependent on them, according to social commentators. It’s feared the underlying issues could have a negative impact ...
DATE: Apr 05, 2011
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Crime
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News that an anti-gang initiative is to be piloted in Bermuda’s prisons has been welcomed by the Prison Officers Association.
Chairman of the association, Craig Clarke, says members of every gang on the Island live alongside each other in Westgate, a...
DATE: Mar 10, 2011
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Crime
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Black male violence must be viewed as a public health concern, according to the former chairman of the National Youth Council.
Stanley James told parliamentarians yesterday that preventative care and education had to be implemented to deal with risi...
DATE: Feb 04, 2011
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Crime
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A cannabis campaigner told MPs that marijuana should no longer be banned by law and instead be “reclassified as a food”.
Gershwyn Smith, of community activist group The Young Progressives, said the Island’s drug laws had increased the community’s pr...
DATE: Jan 31, 2011
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Crime
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Defence lawyer and MP Mark Pettingill will push for longer sentences for gang members when the House of Assembly reconvenes next month.
Mr Pettingill hopes his amendment to the Criminal Code will land proven gangsters with up to ten years longer behi...
DATE: Jan 28, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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