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My ten-year-old, wearing only underwear and a T-shirt, is half-on, half-off the couch, and one bare leg cradles a laptop I bought the year she was born. She’s watching a YouTube video about the executive branch. This is the last week of fifth grade. ...

The Inter-Agency Committee for Children and Families, the Coalition for the Protection of Children, Family Centre, and Saving Children and Revealing Secrets jointly celebrate the Criminal Code Amendment Act 2020 recently tabled in the Senate by the A...

The Department of Youth, Sport and Recreation is advising the public that all of its summer day camps are fully subscribed. A Department spokesperson noted that the annual programme is very popular and vacancies typically fill up very quickly. This...

A little girl was reunited with her lost teddy bear after a good Samaritan turned detective to help trace the owner. Leanne Graham said yesterday that her four-year-old daughter, Maisie, was “elated” after her best friend, Teddy, was returned safe af...

Child protection staff workers have had 18 new referrals in the past 3½ weeks, the Minister of Legal Affairs revealed yesterday. Kathy Lynn Simmons said the complaints had all been made to the Department of Child and Family Services since March 24. S...

The Government has cut funding for a controversial programme which sends vulnerable Bermudian children to overseas institutions. The Department of Child and Family Services will get almost $1.6 million to spend on its psychoeducational programme in t...

People see Hayley Francis Cann walking around with instruments and usually assume she is headed somewhere to perform. In a way she is, although her job as a music therapist requires her to “do a lot more than entertain”. There is a clinical process i...

Some of the youngsters sent abroad by the Government’s child protection agency were not first assessed or treated by mental healthcare services on the island, The Royal Gazette can reveal. The Government has always insisted that overseas treatment wa...

The possibility of an on-island centre to treat troubled children is under discussion, the legal affairs minister and Attorney-General has said. Kathy-Lynn Simmons said: “The ministry is consistently reviewing legislation and services to ensure Bermu...

Heart wrenching accounts about the impact of hurtful words and comments form Victor Scott Primary’s submission for the Live. Love. Life. Anti-Violence Art Exhibition. The artistic showcase on display at the Masterworks Gallery concludes on March 4. A...

A fire that killed at least 15 children at an orphanage in Haiti has devastated the country, a Bermudian resident said yesterday. Phillip Rego, who runs an orphanage in Haiti, said: “They’re sad. “A lot of people sent me a lot of texts — some of the...

The pastor of a Bermudian teenager who died in a Utah care institution has urged the public to let her rest. The Reverend Leonard Santucci, pastor at Vernon Temple, said the death of 16-year-old Kirsta Simons last November should not be used to attac...