The United Bermuda Party believes longer school days and an independent school inspector could help the flagging education system.
Speaking at a United Bermuda Party public meeting on education Dr. Grant Gibbons recommended that Bermuda look to chart...
Employees should be drug tested to root out a culture of substance abuse plaguing workforces, campaigners told a public conference yesterday.
About 80 percent of Bermuda's chemically dependent people have jobs, according to Chris Backeberg of testing...
DATE: Sep 19, 2007 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Tim Smith
A new Government study into young black males will be spearheaded by a Ivy League Professor. And the Premier hopes the $400,000 study will help the Government implement policies, programmes and legislation that will help bridge the gap between this s...
Eighty-year-old Dr. Juanita Guishard has seen it all — from the introduction of integration in the workplace — to the introduction of illicit drugs to the Island more than 25 years ago.
To some, she embodies the struggles for equal opportunity for bl...
Seemingly normal people commit traffic offences on Bermuda's roads each and every day. Don't believe me? Just stop by Magistrates' Court any day of the working week and see traffic offenders lining the benches throughout, business suits and all.
The ...
Carlnika Roser is the on-call Drug Prevention Officer at the Bermuda Police Service. A ten-year veteran of the service, Det. Con. Roser migrated to the Drug and Crime Prevention office in 2004, and has grown to love her position as the face of drug p...
THE DEPARTMENT FOR NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL
11 Parliament Street, Hamilton HM12
Tel: 292-3049 Fax: 295-2066 Web: www.ndc.bm
Committed to the development of healthy communities through prevention, treatment, research and policy.
CENTRE FOR ALCOHOL & DRUG...
How old were you when you first used drugs?
Thirteen. It started from me smoking marijuana first and then as I got older I got involved in different things from being around different people. By the time I was 18 I was getting ready to branch out of ...
A young man stole $510 from his former girlfriend in order to buy her an engagement ring. Jordan Smith, 20, admitted taking the cash from Kate Howarth, 18, so he could propose before she left to study abroad.
Explaining his conduct after pleading gui...
The Island desperately needs more transitional living centres for addicts, particularly because the Island is filled with enablers, according to experts at a National Drug Control conference.
And members of the community dealing with addiction in the...
