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Fears were raised yesterday about whether a new panel of litigation guardians is independent from the Government. Kathy Lynn Simmons, the Attorney-General and Minister of Legal Affairs, set up the board last month. She appointed five qualified social...

A 14-year-old girl in the care of the island’s child protection agency who went missing for the fourth time in less than two months has been traced, police said tonight. Police appealed again yesterday for the public’s help to find the girl less than...

A mother claimed yesterday that her teenage daughter’s referral by Bermuda’s child protection services to a US treatment centre was a “Band-Aid” measure after the young girl died at the overseas facility. She wanted to know what steps were taken befo...

A year ago, the fictitiously named Mary was faced with a difficult situation. At 22, she found herself pregnant and living in a bad situation. “There was a lot of smoking going on where I was,” she said. “And there were always people coming and goi...

The Premier helped celebrate Bermuda’s foster families at the annual Foster Children’s Christmas party. David Burt was joined by Kathy Lynn Simmons, the Attorney-General and Minister of Legal Affairs, along with Cabinet Office staff at the event at S...

Critics of the island’s child protection agency should help to improve the service after a string of abuse allegations, the Attorney-General said yesterday. However, Kathy Lynn Simmons, also Minister of Legal Affairs, which includes the Department of...

The Ministry of Legal Affairs wishes to provide the community with accurate information regarding the Department of Child and Family Services (DCFS). The stories published in The Royal Gazette as it relates to old Psycho-Ed and Residential Treatment...

A lawyer has raised “serious concerns” over whether funding was in place for a panel of litigation guardians to represent children in court. Saul Dismont also questioned why the five panel members had not been identified after Kathy Lynn Simmons, th...

Compulsory police background checks should be carried out on anyone who wants to work with children, the head of a child protection charity said yesterday. Debi Ray-Rivers, the director of Saving Children and Revealing Secrets, said that police vetti...

My first reaction to reading the article on the tragic death of an at-risk 16-year-old girl placed in an overseas institution was guilt. I felt this way because, apart from a few heroes, I remained silent like the rest of our society over the alarmin...

A US care centre where a 16-year-old Bermudian girl died said yesterday it was “greatly saddened” by last week’s tragedy. Janet Farnsworth, the executive director of West Ridge Academy in West Jordan, Utah, offered condolences to the teenager’s famil...

No other Bermudians are at the Utah treatment facility where a 16-year-old died over the weekend, the Attorney-General said last night. In an interview with ZBM, Kathy Lynn Simmons confirmed that an investigation into the Bermudian teenager’s death i...