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Governments on both sides of the political divide have spent more than $33 million over the past ten years to send Bermudian children to overseas institutions, The Royal Gazette can reveal.
Most of the cash was paid to schools and “treatment centres”...
DATE: Dec 11, 2019
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One of Bermuda’s most successful charities, the AXA End-to-End, is delighted to announce that it has a new sponsor.
Butterfield, Bermuda’s oldest bank, has confirmed its commitment as a Platinum Sponsor of the annual event.
Michael Neff, Butterfie...
DATE: Dec 11, 2019
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Police have found no evidence of shots fired in the area of St John’s Road, Pembroke, a spokesman said at 1.15pm today.
Police earlier fielded calls in the wake of social media posts about a purported incident at midday near the junction with Woodlan...
DATE: Dec 11, 2019
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A Utah institution where a Bermudian teenager died last month said it had “evolved” its practices over the past decade for dealing with the children in its care after a string of abuse allegations.
West Ridge Academy, a non-profit agency in West Jord...
DATE: Dec 10, 2019
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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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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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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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