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The Inter-Agency Committee for Children and Families welcomes the Government’s 2020 Throne Speech. From early in the speech and throughout, the Government makes a clear commitment to social priorities. In 2014, the IAC conducted a comprehensive Asse...

An antiracism charity said today that a print version of its book on black history was now available. Black History in Bermuda: Timeline Spanning Five Centuries was created by Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda, with the support of the Human Ri...

Plans to support children, seniors and vulnerable people were outlined yesterday when the Government vowed to “drive a movement of change” for Bermuda. John Rankin, the Governor, said that there will also be help for those leaving the public care sys...

A $5 million target was yesterday set for a new social fund designed to give a hand-up to the most underprivileged sectors of society. The Bermuda Foundation launched the scheme to support schemes that would offer “mobility and advancement for the mo...

In today’s rumbling fast pace of life, where people seldom have quiet moments to reflect on values so common many decades ago, such as politeness, respect, tolerance, kindness and the ability to treat others as we would like to be treated, it is conc...

A civil rights campaign group has unveiled its platform for 2020. Social Justice Bermuda, inspired by the global Black Lives Matter movement, listed a series of changes it wanted in the areas of criminal justice, education, healthcare and food and ec...

For teens whose home lives are already tough, this shutdown can be devastating. The hottest job in the next year? Youth mental health therapist. It has to be. Because it’s the teens — the “quaranteens” — who may be hit the hardest by this pandemic. “...

Letters to the Editor Dear Sir, On behalf of YouthVision Promotions, we would like to thank the following participants, supporters and sponsors for making our Middle School March successful on Monday, December 16. First, All thanks to God. Next, we w...

Repeated complaints about “deplorable conditions”, including rats, at an East End emergency housing complex have been ignored, a resident has claimed. The woman said that problems she had highlighted at government-run Gulfstream, in St David’s, had n...

On Friday, June 14 — Freedom Friday — a diverse gathering of 150 or so took place in City Hall’s Earl Cameron Theatre for 60 minutes in Celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Theatre Boycott. The appropriateness of the venue was noted, given tha...

Organisers of the boycott that paved the way for racial equality on the island were honoured yesterday on the eve of its 60th anniversary. Students, advocates and government figures congregated at the Earl Cameron Theatre in City Hall for the Freedom...

It will very soon be my first anniversary as an elected MP. People often ask me how I am finding it up on the Hill. My first year as the newest Member of the House has certainly been interesting, sometimes frustrating, and, occasionally, profound. Th...