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Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago have been approved for international adoptions. Tinée Furbert, the Minister of Social Development and Seniors, said she had cleared the two countries at the request of the Department of Child and Family Services. Approve...

Dennis Blackwell should have arrived in Bermuda yesterday. It was expected to be a joyous occasion, an opportunity to finally meet his birth family after a 20-year search. Thanks to Covid-19, he is instead at home in Indiana; his trip delayed until S...

Teens whose childhoods were spent in foster care are now pursuing their dreams thanks to big-hearted donors. Tylasha DeSilva, 17, and 18-year-old Sierra Brangman, have been awarded $30,000 and $20,000 for their education by the Foster Parents’ Associ...

A Christmastime baby who decided to dedicate her birthdays to giving gifts to foster children has collected a record number of presents. Melonie Dill’s third annual Birthday Giveback received more than 230 gifts from 160 donors. Now 87 foster childre...

A man’s kind-hearted birthday wish has raised more than $9,000 for a foster parents’ charity. Akil Darrell decided to raise money for the Foster Parents’ Association instead of geting presents for his 37th birthday on October 29. Now, the FPA is $9,3...

Henry DeSilva’s story is bittersweet. For decades he searched for his little sister Margaret Ann, who went into Bermuda’s foster care programme when she was 3 and disappeared with an American family soon after. Ancestry DNA helped connect the pair th...

Lindsay Simmons has fostered close to 20 children. Last week she received an early Mother’s Day gift when she adopted her own. Three-year-old Laundyn has been in her care since she was born because her birth mother was a heroin user who left her dau...

Cathy West has always known she was adopted. It did not stop her from having a good life, but it did make her curious about who she had come from. The Bermudian author drew on her journey to find her birth mother in writing her latest novel, The Memo...

The Consultative Immigration Reform Working Group has delivered its recommendations on adoption. The proposal for legislative reform was sent to Michael Dunkley, the Premier, as well as Minister of Home Affairs Patricia Gordon-Pamplin and Bermuda In...

The Consultative Immigration Reform Working Group has called on the public to give their thoughts on the concept of immigration and adoption. Any person who is adopted by a Bermudian is deemed to be Bermudian until their 22nd birthday. To achieve Ber...

The Department of Child and Family Services has honoured the island’s foster parents at their annual Foster Care Appreciation tea. Sylvan Richards, the Minister of Social Development and Sport, said that during the month of May, the Department of Chi...

A man whose former Panamanian wife has contravened a court joint custody order has appealed for his son’s return. Shawn Simons has not seen Shenito, 10, in more than a year and now seeks sole custody after the collapse of his arrangements with the bo...