The Olderhood Group is taking its popular radio show online in partnership with The Royal Gazette.
After two successful years on the airwaves, the Olderhood team is bringing its lifestyle and financial content to the world wide web.
The first ten-min...
DATE: Dec 20, 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 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 ...
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...
Schoolboys aged just 14 and 15 were locked up at the Co-Ed Facility as recently as this year despite laws designed to prevent the detention of children unless in exceptional circumstances.
Ian Kawaley, a former Chief Justice, ruled in 2012 that a sen...
DATE: Dec 09, 2019 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Fiona McWhirter
A 49-year-old mother said youngsters sent for treatment overseas returned to Bermuda “traumatised”.
She explained that two of her children spent time in US institutions when they were teenagers and her daughter claimed she was sexually abused by a co...
DATE: Dec 09, 2019 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Fiona McWhirter
An investigation into the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board has highlighted serious problems, the Ombudsman revealed yesterday.
Victoria Pearman said the board lacked the basic administrative and financial backing to do its job.
Ms Pearman added:...
The National Pension Scheme (Occupational Pensions) Amendment Act 2019 legislation, which will allow employees to take out a quarter of their private pensions as a lump sum on retirement, was passed by MPs in the House of Assembly on November 15.
Th...
Professional-services firm KPMG is to take a leading role as title co-sponsor of the Caribbean Infrastructure Forum set for January 21 and 22 in Kingston, Jamaica.
The event will convene a cross section of decision makers, executives and financiers f...
DATE: Nov 27, 2019 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Business Staff
Planning for your future is simple: do you believe that?
Most people think it is important — but only a few actually do it. There is a hesitancy for many people — either caused by putting it off, or being scared to do it, or not knowing how to get st...
DATE: Nov 21, 2019 | CATEGORY: Opinion Writer | AUTHOR: Bill Storie
