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A free concert tomorrow will celebrate the life of an international opera singer who trained many of the island’s artistes. Michaela Antoinette, the daughter of Marcelle Clamens, said the concert at the Berkeley Institute cafetorium would bring toget...

Campaigners called yesterday for Bermuda to come together for the sake of its children after stories about trauma suffered by minors in care services. They insisted there must be greater consideration given to alternative options that would limit the...

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...

A man was in police custody last night after a woman police officer was alleged to have been hit by a car after she tried to ticket the vehicle with the driver at the wheel. A police spokesman said: “The officer was in the process of issuing a parkin...

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...

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...

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...

An at-risk teenager’s allegations that he suffered physical abuse at the hands of a male employee at a boys’ home were investigated only after his litigation guardian read his file. An inquiry into the abuse claims at the Devonshire home was launched...

The new senator for the Progressive Labour Party warned yesterday that care of the island’s growing seniors population will take “more than just money”. Ianthia Simmons-Wade, a veteran healthcare worker and widow of former PLP leader Frederick Wade, ...

Direct employment in Bermuda’s tourism industry rose by more than 200 jobs in 2018, while visitors spent $544 million purchasing tourism products on-island, a report released yesterday revealed. The Tourism Satellite Account Report shows that direct ...