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Bermuda’s thin blue line has to police itself, the national security minister has said.
Wayne Caines told police they must hold each other accountable in the wake of a 2½-year sentence given to an officer for corruption.
Mr Caines praised the hard wo...
DATE: Dec 13, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
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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Other
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
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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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
The family of a seriously ill man facing at least $300,000 in hospital bills claim his insurance company should have been more open about what his health plan covered.
Dandre Outerbridge thought his Standard Health Benefit plan covered overseas medi...
DATE: Dec 12, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
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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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Dock-workers were locked in union talks yesterday after staff downed tools on Tuesday night, and others staged a morning protest amid claims that a dozen workers had been fired.
The workers later marched to the Bermuda Industrial Union headquarters f...
DATE: Dec 12, 2019
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Other
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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...
DATE: Dec 12, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Other
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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...
DATE: Dec 12, 2019
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Other
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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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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
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...
DATE: Dec 12, 2019
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