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A child welfare campaigner said yesterday that the “heart-wrenching” case of a 15-year-old girl exiled to an overseas institution for three years without any say in the decision highlighted the need for vulnerable children to be given a voice. The te...

An erosion of the right of vulnerable children to have independent legal representation in court would be “yet another attack on the human rights of its citizens by the Government”, the Human Rights Commission warned yesterday. Tawana Tannock, chairw...

The Government is proposing a change to the law aimed at eroding the rights of children to have independent legal representation in court, it has been claimed. An anonymous source shared with The Royal Gazette a copy of a draft Bill, titled the Child...

A woman exiled to an overseas institution by the Family Court when she was a child said yesterday she had no say in the decision and suffered “trauma” while abroad. The woman said: “I was blindsided. I didn’t know nothing about it. They didn’t ask me...

Almost 50 vulnerable Bermudian children were sent to overseas institutions in the past five years without their wishes being taken into account by the courts, The Royal Gazette can reveal. Statistics released under public access to information legisl...

Renovation work at a children’s home appears to have been at a standstill for more than 18 months, with at-risk youngsters housed instead in former administrative offices. The Youth Development Centre closed temporarily at the end of March last year ...

Shadow legal affairs minister Scott Pearman has called on Attorney-General Kathy Lynn Simmons to explain to the public why she has been named as a codefendant in five civil lawsuits. The five writs are among 14 cases filed in the Supreme Court since ...

Vulnerable children involved in court proceedings will have no legal representation because of the Government’s refusal to pay for the services, it was alleged yesterday. Tiffanne Thomas, a freelance social worker, said she was withdrawing as a litig...

A top Crown counsel is being sued for an alleged failure to pay back more than half a million dollars to a “self-help” club set up by a group of friends in North Hamilton. Club 10 Foundation Ltd claimed that Myron Simmons, a senior lawyer in the Atto...

A former Miss Teen Bermuda who became an international award-winning midwife has spearheaded an attempt to make sure women in war-torn Syria get proper maternity care. Pandora Hardtman set up a programme to promote safe births in the devastated Middl...