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A “huge amount of work” will need to be done to reduce gang crime in Bermuda, an anti-violence campaigner claimed yesterday. Desmond Crockwell said: “We have to discourage the glorifying of the lifestyle, from an early age. “More can be done on camp...

A petition to block the permanent shutdown of a middle school had more than 130 signatures by last night. The change.org petition warned the closure of Warwick’s TN Tatem Middle School, shut in April due to mould and other health and safety problems...

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...

Two men who suffered abuse as teenagers at a grim reform school in the United States have urged Bermuda not to give up on its troubled young people and to care for at-risk children closer to home. Alvone Maybury, 33, and Ezra Ararat, 34, told their s...

A high proportion of children who enter institutionalised care, whether they stay in Bermuda or get sent abroad, end up in trouble as adults, it has been claimed. But the Department of Child and Family Services does not appear to collect statistics o...

Philadelphia set up a task force to investigate youth residential care after 17-year-old David Hess died at the hands of staff at a centre for troubled teens and youth campaigners spoke out about mistreatment. The result was a report released on Nove...

A march designed to encourage men to become role models for schoolchildren has the backing of education authorities, the Government said yesterday. A spokeswoman for the Government said: “The Department of Education has confirmed that Mr Crockwell d...

BHS are pleased to announce a new Bursary Programme for qualified students entering Upper Primary in Years 4,5 and 6. Head of School, Linda Parker said, “We are very grateful to our generous donors who are prepared to invest in Bermuda’s future femal...

The national security minister denied nepotism after he appointed his mother to a government board. Wayne Caines said the selection of Shurnett Caines for the Treatment of Offenders Board was based on merit. He added that the appointment was made bec...

Bermuda has two residential homes for children in care and both need a string of improvements, people with inside knowledge have said. The sources said the buildings, the staff and the care provided all needed to be upgraded. The Royal Gazette spoke ...