Bermuda has two residential homes for children in care and both need a string of improvements, people with inside knowledge have said.
The sources said the buildings, the staff and the care provided all needed to be upgraded.
The Royal Gazette spoke ...
A civil case brought by a former primary school principal against the Public Service Commission and the Board of Education after she was overlooked for the Commissioner of Education post ended yesterday.
Gina Tucker, who has also worked in several ...
Bermudian children have been sent to overseas treatment centres for decades — but it has only come to wider public attention in recent years.
As far back as at least 1984 — and until 2017 — boys from Bermuda were sent to the embattled Glen Mills Scho...
DATE: Dec 11, 2019 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Fiona McWhirter
A march designed to encourage men to become role models for schoolchildren has the backing of education authorities, the Government said today.
A spokeswoman for the Government said: “The Department of Education has confirmed that Mr Crockwell did re...
On, Monday, 9th December 2019, Saltus unveiled a new playground at their St. John’s Road campus. Deryn Lavell, Head of School was joined by Denise McAdoo, Shelly Sayers, Leighton Yong, Henry Weinstein, Beattie Ball, Evie Hook, Sebastian Teitel, Tse B...
Rose James lived beside St David’s Lighthouse, but at times it felt like her home was the actual beacon.
Children were drawn to her; it wasn’t unusual to hear an unexpected knock on the door.
“In my house, there was always someone’s child who had le...
DATE: Dec 10, 2019 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Jessie Moniz Hardy
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 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Fiona McWhirter
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...
Dear Sir,
It was with some dismay I read the article published on November 28 with the headline “MWI refuses to admit mentally ill man”. While I cannot discuss individual patient details, I feel it is important that the community understands that any...
DATE: Dec 10, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor | AUTHOR: Letters to the Editor
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 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Fiona McWhirter
