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Changes to the healthcare insurance system will go ahead, despite a call from the Opposition to put the plans on hold, the Government said yesterday.
The Government added it would not extend the consultation period on the changes — which ended on Sun...
DATE: Dec 10, 2019
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Health
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
On December 5, U.S. Consul General Constance Dierman met with a group of representatives from the Women’s Resource Centre (WRC) and Habitat for Humanity who were selected to participate in an exchange program designed by the U.S. Department of State....
DATE: Dec 10, 2019
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Press Release
(Photographs by Blaire Simmons)
DATE: Dec 09, 2019
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Two musical sisters will help ring in the holiday season with a performance at a Christmas concert this weekend.
Naphisa Smith, 18, and her sister, Sari, 15, will give their final joint violin performances for the year as part of the Bermuda School o...
DATE: Dec 09, 2019
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Schoolboys aged just 14 and 15 were locked up at the Co-Ed Facility as recently as this year despite laws designed to prevent the detention of children unless in exceptional circumstances.
Ian Kawaley, a former Chief Justice, ruled in 2012 that a sen...
DATE: Dec 09, 2019
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A mother of three feared for her 17-year-old son when she learnt that a Bermudian had died at a treatment institution in the US.
The woman said she was “horrified” to read about a teenager who died at a residential facility in Utah last month — the s...
DATE: Dec 09, 2019
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Lawyers have been given permission to proceed with a court case launched on behalf of a five-year-old boy who it was claimed had been denied legal protection through a failure to fund independent court representation for him.
Martha Dismont, for the ...
DATE: Dec 09, 2019
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
At 13, he thought he was going to Disney World — but instead was flown overseas for a year in therapy.
At 15, he should have been in a children’s home — but was “jailed” for months at the Co-Ed in St George’s despite never being convicted of a crime....
DATE: Dec 09, 2019
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A young woman who spent more than a year in a Utah residential institution said the experience was a good influence on her life.
The 27-year-old revealed that she enjoyed theatre and rafting trips as part of her time at Moonridge Academy in Utah when...
DATE: Dec 09, 2019
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
The assistant director of the Department of Child and Family Services is to stand trial over allegations she assaulted a teenage girl who refused to board a flight to the United States.
Kennette Robinson, 51, was charged last Thursday in Magistrates’...
DATE: Dec 09, 2019
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