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A homeless man sent a series of death threats against David Burt and his family in a “campaign of abuse and harassment”, the Supreme Court heard yesterday. The Premier, who has two young children, was “alarmed and disturbed” by the messages, which ra...

Prosecutors have dropped proceedings against a man accused of threatening to kill someone in a message to a government MP. The news came after Perry Smith was earlier charged in a case that related to Michael Scott, the elected member for Sandys Nor...

A drive has been launched to make an anti-violence magazine available in Westgate prison. Desmond Crockwell, chief editor of Visionz magazine, is looking for sponsorship to make the magazine available to prisoners, as well as to high school pupils. M...

Robin Hood and former Bermuda footballer Antwan Russell and two other men appeared in Magistrates’ Court yesterday over their involvement in fights at a sports club. Russell, 32, from Warwick, along with Rashaad Cooper, 36, and Joshua Place, 33, plea...

A child sexual abuse survivor who gave up his job as a police detective in the United States to support others will give an empowering talk in Bermuda this week. Kevin McNeil, the chief executive and founder of The Twelve Project, which aims to teach...

An American reform school where boys from Bermuda were sent for more than 35 years has been shut down for mistreatment and abuse of children. Glen Mills Schools in Pennsylvania was told by state authorities there had been a string of violations of re...

A woman’s three children were separated and sent overseas to a string of different institutions for up to seven years without any legal representation, she has revealed. The mother said the Department of Child and Family Services wanted to place the ...

A woman sent overseas for residential care when she was aged just 12 said the move felt like a punishment and left her unprepared for adult life back home. She explained that her only childhood problems were emotional and that she was “tricked” on to...

Children from Bermuda have been sent to schools and institutions overseas for decades when social workers here deem them to have exhausted all available local services. Health minister Kim Wilson told MPs last month that children who go abroad for “t...

Vulnerable children are likely to continue to be sent abroad without any legal representation, according to Shadow Attorney-General Scott Pearman. Mr Pearman said despite the Government allocating $242,000 in this year’s Budget for independent advoca...

A children’s advocate said yesterday that a scheme for government staff to visit vulnerable youngsters placed in overseas schools was “woefully inadequate”. Tiffanne Thomas believed the level of contact could lead to feelings of abandonment and knew ...