A “huge amount of work” will need to be done to reduce gang crime in Bermuda, an anti-violence campaigner claimed yesterday.
Desmond Crockwell said: “We have to discourage the glorifying of the lifestyle, from an early age.
“More can be done on camp...
A petition to block the permanent shutdown of a middle school had more than 130 signatures by last night.
The change.org petition warned the closure of Warwick’s TN Tatem Middle School, shut in April due to mould and other health and safety problems...
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 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Fiona McWhirter
Former champion boxer Teresa Perozzi, and nutrition health coach and author Agathe Holowatinc, are supporting the Bermuda Diabetes Association through sales of their company Fuelled Bermuda Ltd’s Fit & Fuelled 2020 calendar.
They partnered with the B...
DATE: Dec 13, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local Business | AUTHOR: Business Staff
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...
Bermuda’s gross domestic product increased by 0.1 per cent to $6.5 billion in 2018, the Government announced today.
GDP is a measure of economic activity that captures the value of goods and services produced within a country during a given period.
I...
DATE: Dec 13, 2019 | CATEGORY: Economy | AUTHOR: Duncan Hall
The inflation rate fell to 0.8 per cent in September, down from 1.5 per cent the month before.
The Consumer Price Index was 106.1, meaning that a basket of goods and services that cost $100 in April 2015, would have cost $106.10 in September.
Year-on...
DATE: Dec 12, 2019 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Business Staff
What does every child who is brought into this world need and deserve?
Every child needs unconditional love and protection, provided by those who brought them into this world.
Parenting can be one of the most difficult but most rewarding responsibil...
DATE: Dec 12, 2019 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Debi Ray-Rivers
A high proportion of children who enter institutionalised care, whether they stay in Bermuda or get sent abroad, end up in trouble as adults, it has been claimed.
But the Department of Child and Family Services does not appear to collect statistics o...
Philadelphia set up a task force to investigate youth residential care after 17-year-old David Hess died at the hands of staff at a centre for troubled teens and youth campaigners spoke out about mistreatment.
The result was a report released on Nove...
