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Boys from Bermuda were shipped off to a harsh reform school for more than 35 years until 2017.
But the name of Glen Mills Schools, the oldest institution of its type in America, would have meant nothing to most Bermudians until April last year.
It wa...
DATE: Dec 10, 2019
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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...
DATE: Dec 10, 2019
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A 27-year-old mechanic is facing a hospital bill of more than $300,000 after falling ill on vacation in the United States.
Two weeks ago, Dandre Outerbridge, who works for Correia Construction, developed symptoms of viral encephalitis, a form of meni...
DATE: Dec 10, 2019
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Jessie Moniz Hardy
The Ministry of Legal Affairs wishes to provide the community with accurate information regarding the Department of Child and Family Services (DCFS).
The stories published in The Royal Gazette as it relates to old Psycho-Ed and Residential Treatment...
DATE: Dec 10, 2019
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A Bermudian girl sent to a residential institution in Connecticut was one of the school’s “success stories”, its president has claimed.
Richard Chorney, the chief executive of Grove School, Madison, said he remembered one child from the island.
He ad...
DATE: Dec 10, 2019
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A supermarket group has donated half a million dollars to help build a new Agape House hospice.
Giorgio Zanol, the president of the Lindo’s Group, said his family had benefited from Agape and challenged others to match the company’s donation.
Mr Zano...
DATE: Dec 10, 2019
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
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...
DATE: Dec 10, 2019
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Bermudian children are being sent to schools in the United States where staff have been accused of serious misconduct, including an institution that sacked an employee two weeks ago after it was alleged he allowed teenage boys to choke one another un...
DATE: Dec 10, 2019
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The “Docs for Dinner” event which was originally scheduled for October 31, 2019, has been rescheduled and will now be held on Thursday, December 19, 2019 at 7:00 p.m. at Café Lido. Cocktails will be served at 6:30 p.m.
Speaker for the event, Dr. Pa...
DATE: Dec 10, 2019
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A woman motorcyclist involved in a traffic collision in Devonshire was twice the legal alcohol limit, Magistrates’ Court heard yesterday.
Courtney Kromer, 25, pleaded guilty to a charge of drink driving.
The court heard that police officers attended ...
DATE: Dec 10, 2019
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