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Lawyer Saul Dismont detailed in a British law magazine this year how the Government had failed children by not paying for them to have independent legal representation.
Mr Dismont submitted an article to Family Affairs, the newsletter of the Family L...
DATE: Dec 13, 2019
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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...
DATE: Dec 13, 2019
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Jonathan Bell
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...
DATE: Dec 13, 2019
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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...
DATE: Dec 13, 2019
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Fiona McWhirter
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...
DATE: Dec 13, 2019
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
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...
DATE: Dec 13, 2019
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Fiona McWhirter
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...
DATE: Dec 13, 2019
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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...
DATE: Dec 13, 2019
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Getting into the Christmas spirit, the Bermuda Post Office (BPO) hosted its annual “Postcard to Someone Special” event this week for nursery and primary school students.
According to the Acting Post Master General, Susan Moore-Williams “Postcard to ...
DATE: Dec 13, 2019
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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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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
