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A man’s kind-hearted birthday wish has raised more than $9,000 for a foster parents’ charity. Akil Darrell decided to raise money for the Foster Parents’ Association instead of geting presents for his 37th birthday on October 29. Now, the FPA is $9,3...

Henry DeSilva’s story is bittersweet. For decades he searched for his little sister Margaret Ann, who went into Bermuda’s foster care programme when she was 3 and disappeared with an American family soon after. Ancestry DNA helped connect the pair th...

Lindsay Simmons has fostered close to 20 children. Last week she received an early Mother’s Day gift when she adopted her own. Three-year-old Laundyn has been in her care since she was born because her birth mother was a heroin user who left her dau...

Cathy West has always known she was adopted. It did not stop her from having a good life, but it did make her curious about who she had come from. The Bermudian author drew on her journey to find her birth mother in writing her latest novel, The Memo...

The Consultative Immigration Reform Working Group has delivered its recommendations on adoption. The proposal for legislative reform was sent to Michael Dunkley, the Premier, as well as Minister of Home Affairs Patricia Gordon-Pamplin and Bermuda In...

The Consultative Immigration Reform Working Group has called on the public to give their thoughts on the concept of immigration and adoption. Any person who is adopted by a Bermudian is deemed to be Bermudian until their 22nd birthday. To achieve Ber...

The Department of Child and Family Services has honoured the island’s foster parents at their annual Foster Care Appreciation tea. Sylvan Richards, the Minister of Social Development and Sport, said that during the month of May, the Department of Chi...

A man whose former Panamanian wife has contravened a court joint custody order has appealed for his son’s return. Shawn Simons has not seen Shenito, 10, in more than a year and now seeks sole custody after the collapse of his arrangements with the bo...

Unmarried and same-sex couples can apply to jointly adopt children, according to a recent judgment in the Supreme Court. Under the Adoption Act 2006, unmarried couples have been unable to jointly adopt children. Bermuda does not recognise same-sex ma...

An eight-month adoptions delay that led to frustration and heartache for would-be new parents should now be at an end, according to Child and Family Services director Alfred Maybury. However, more stringent adoption regulations now in force come with...

A man who was adopted as a baby in Bermuda and taken to Canada by his new parents has launched a search for his blood family. Benjamin deGraaf was born on May 26, 1973 as Benjamin Trott, but his last name was changed after he was adopted, to match hi...