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Recently the police gave what should have been an alarming report for every family in Bermuda when they announced that some of our youth who are barely in their teens were gravitating towards gang activity. This would indicate that, despite efforts t...

Dear Sir, On behalf of the Visionz team, I would like to thank the following for their hard work and support, for helping to make Visionz Anti-Violence pre-launch a success. Without them there would be no Visionz. Argus (Charmaine Burgess and Joy Pim...

A social worker aiming to break Bermuda’s gang cycle is calling on employers to take a chance on young men with troubled histories. Kimberley Jackson, managing director of Team Street Safe, said giving “proven risk individuals” secure training and em...

Dear Sir, What a fine young man Desmond Crockwell must be to stand up in this community and declare his feelings in a non-violent magazine — a magazine to be published and disseminated in schools and clubs, and to be purchased. It has taken someone w...

The loss of family and friends to gang violence has spurred one man to launch an anti-violence magazine promoting peace in Bermuda. Desmond Crockwell has realised his dream of a quarterly publication giving voice to those harmed by gang activity. It...

A teenager was reportedly stabbed yesterday in what police have said they suspect to be a gang related attack. According to a police spokesman, at around 5.30pm yesterday emergency services were dispatched to a reported assault in Pembroke. “It appea...

Senators Jeff Baron and Tinee Furbert called at Gilbert Institute to take part in Gang Resistance Education And Training graduation. Mr Baron, the national security minister, said connecting with young people can help them make the right choices as t...

Footballers who use social media to promote their gang activities and allegiances will be told they are not welcome to play at Police Field. Players recently convicted of violent offences or antisocial behaviour, or those on bail for a serious offenc...

The Bermuda Police Service have threatened to stop football being played at Police Field if clubs that use the ground persist in allowing gang members to play for them. In a letter sent to the Bermuda Football Association and the island’s clubs after...

National security minister Senator Jeff Baron has encouraged respected community figures to step forward as “moral voices” to help in the fight against gang violence. In last week’s Throne Speech, the Government announced its intention to resurrect ...

By the time Dameko Dublin turns 25, he will have served six straight years behind bars, missed all five of his daughter’s birthdays and lost 11 friends to gang violence. At 15, having been kicked out of school in Bermuda and losing his father in a tr...

After reading the October 27 editorial titled “What’s missing? Rear window, bravery, honour, leadership”, we can understand the Editor’s shock at the news that the football team’s attackers were from the ages of 13 to 16. But that’s about the typical...