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An ambitious plan for a home for at-risk mothers and children is “rounding the last corner”, the charity leading the effort said yesterday. Sheelagh Cooper, the chairwoman of Habitat for Humanity Bermuda said another $50,000 was needed for the finish...

The Transformational Living Centre, a shelter for homeless women and their children soon to open on Parsons Road in Pembroke, got brightened last month by big-hearted volunteers from a local insurer. Sheelagh Cooper, the chairwoman of Habitat for Hum...

Bermuda’s homeless population will be sheltered during the stay-at-home period with the help of the Government, the Ministry of Social Development and Seniors pledged today. Tinee Furbert said that supplies, including personal protective equipment an...

Bermuda’s most vulnerable were shown some love after an insurance group teamed up with voluntary services to distribute care packages on St Valentine’s Day. The MoonGate Group handed out 150 “we care packages” stocked with food, hygiene products and ...

The Salvation Army’s emergency homeless shelter in Pembroke has been given a major boost after the Government and two businessmen joined forces to improve the almost 40-year-old facility. The Government, Jim Butterfield and Kirk Kitson have funded $...

Charity leaders said a final funding push will help get them over the line to complete a life-changing centre for struggling parents and their children. They praised the kindness of companies who had helped them to turn a former rest home into the Tr...

A former school once earmarked for emergency housing has been ruled “surplus to Government requirement”. Now the Ministry of Public Works has asked for expressions of interest to renovate the former Bishop Spencer School in Pembroke. A spokesman sai...

A church breakfast programme for the homeless is to beef up security after a fight broke out on Saturday at its weekly gathering, a spokesman said yesterday. David Thompson, of the “Loads of Love” programme at Christ Church in Warwick, said the organ...

A senior who admitted throwing a corrosive liquid at police in a seven-hour stand-off escaped a jail sentence yesterday. James Dallas, 71, who was released from custody in November last year after nine months in jail, was sentenced in the Supreme Cou...

A mother of five hopes to inspire others by sharing her journey from being homeless to becoming an entrepreneur. Chrystal-Lynn El was having trouble finding full-time work in Bermuda in 2014 and decided to relocate to Atlanta in hopes of finding a jo...

Most of the homeless people sheltered in the Government’s emergency centre over the Covid-19 pandemic are back on the streets after it closed, it was revealed yesterday. Kathy Lynn Simmons, a senator and the Attorney-General and Minister of Legal Aff...

A plan to help homeless men and women housed by the Government after a coronavirus curfew was imposed is in the works, the City of Hamilton said yesterday. A temporary shelter, at CedarBridge Academy in Prospect, will cease to operate after the curfe...