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A damaged baby swing at a playground has been replaced after a worried father contacted The Royal Gazette with safety concerns. The Shelly Bay, Hamilton Parish swing, designed for infants, was missing two of three rivets missing on one side of the s...

The Department of Parks is working towards repairing a damaged baby swing at Shelly Bay Park playground, more than a month after a complaint was lodged. One of the baby swings at the Hamilton Parish site has two of three rivets missing from one side...

A playground at the Botanical Gardens donated by The America’s Cup just three years ago has been dismantled because the structures were in “a severe state of disrepair“. The nautically-themed play area designed by Austrian company Arti featured equi...

Anyone caught with child pornography could face up to ten years in jail, police warned today. A spokesman said: “Should you receive such images, do not share them.” He added that people should instead contact police or the service’s vulnerable person...

Bermuda has finally recorded its first birth of 2021, five days into the new year. Mother Danielle Pacheco gave birth to a baby girl on Tuesday afternoon. The father is Daniel Hayward. Kalysta Rayne Hayward arrived at 1.40pm at the maternity unit o...

Bermuda’s foster parents – and people who supported them – were celebrated in the Senate yesterday. Lindsay Simmons, the junior social development and seniors minister, praised the hard work and dedication of Bermuda’s foster parents in her maiden sp...

Struggling families have written letters of thanks after they got help with living expenses from a fund launched after the Covid-19 pandemic hit. A single father said that the people involved in the drive by Grateful Bread, a community action group, ...

The trial of a senior Government care worker charged with an assault a teenager in her care will return to Magistrates’ Court next year. Kennette Robinson, 52, has denied charges that she punched and mistreated a 17-year-old girl in an incident at th...

A “delightful display” of children reading and talking about their favourite characters marked the start of a modified literary festival. The Children’s Reading Festival will be held in drive-by form this year after it was affected by Covid-19 restri...

Two children’s advocates have condemned a suspended sentence handed down in the Supreme Court to a man who admitted accessing thousands of items of child pornography. Wong Li Shan, 43, was spared prison last week with a ten-month suspended sentence a...

I have the utmost respect for our lawyers and judges. Some of the brightest and wisest minds sit on the bench. What is baffling to me is the lack of knowledge for some when it comes to the minds of child sex offenders. Or is it that they must use pas...

A man who admitted accessing more than 23,000 items of child pornography was today given a ten month suspended sentence. Wong Li Shan was told in the Supreme Court that, although the material was “abhorrent”, it was on the lowest level of the scale. ...