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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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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
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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Performances by ten young people won them the chance to showcase their talents in the next round of a music and singing contest.
They will take part in the On Stage competition as part of the Bermuda Festival in February.
Vocalists Dakota Tucker, Eli...
DATE: Dec 10, 2019
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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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The island’s Junior Leaders marked their last training camp of the year with a weekend of battles with high-tech laser rifles.
The youngsters ended their year with Exercise Battle Royale — which combined fun for the festive season and their fieldcraf...
DATE: Dec 09, 2019
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News Staff
Christmas came early for animal welfare charity SPCA (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) following a recent ‘lunch and learn’ session at Third Point Reinsurance Ltd. (Third Point Re).
Staff at the Hamilton-based specialty property and...
DATE: Dec 09, 2019
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Press Release
An island resident’s 980-mile end-to-end bicycle trip in Britain raised a total of $20,000 for four Bermudian charities.
William Lawrence completed the nine-day cycling trip from Land’s End, in Cornwall, England, to John o’Groats, in Caithness, Scot...
DATE: Dec 06, 2019
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Compulsory police background checks should be carried out on anyone who wants to work with children, the head of a child protection charity said yesterday.
Debi Ray-Rivers, the director of Saving Children and Revealing Secrets, said that police vetti...
DATE: Dec 05, 2019
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Tim Hodgson, a former Editor of the Mid-Ocean News and Editorial Consultant for The Royal Gazette, has died. He was 57.
Colleagues and friends said Mr Hodgson, who started his career in journalism aged just 15, was an unparalleled reporter whose outp...
DATE: Dec 03, 2019
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Sylvia Shorto joined the Lifelong Learning Centre as its director 11 days ago.
She’s likely still figuring out how the coffee pot works. But when the dust settles, she has some plans. High on the list is eliminating “concepts of ageism” from the Berm...
DATE: Dec 03, 2019
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AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
