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Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, the Minister of Public Works, called on residents to donate a few hours to the horticultural community cleanup programme scheduled for this weekend. • To read Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch’s ministerial statement to t...

A motorcyclist who lost his helmet during a police chase admitted drink driving today. Elisha Thomas, 20, pleaded guilty to the charge in Magistrates’ Court. The court heard that police followed Thomas’s bike after he ignored a stop sign on North Sho...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...