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Details of the new Children’s Commission’s powers will be made public in the next month, the Government said yesterday. Tinee Furbert, the Social Development and Seniors Minister, promised that the “flagship” policy to replace the Child Care Place...

Covid-19 outbreaks have hit schools in the wake of a return to classes after the midterm break, the education minister has said. Diallo Rabain said: “There have been some. They are private matters. He added: “There have been a few – there have been v...

A charity leader said yesterday she looked forward to consultation over Government plans to boost child protection. Nicola Paugh, the executive director of the Inter Agency Committee for Children, Families and the Community, said the organisation was...

Young artists can win cash prizes in an art competition held by the Bermuda National Trust. The trust yesterday opened its doors to applications for their 2021 Student Art Competition, whose theme this year is “My Bermuda”. Karen Border, the executiv...

Bermuda will not start Covid-19 vaccines for children aged under 11 until the Government gets the green light from the UK, it was revealed last night. Ayo Oyinloye, the chief medical officer, said that the US Food and Drug Administration had authoris...

Hundreds of kids will have Sophia Araujo to thank for their Halloween fun this weekend. She's behind tomorrow's Spooktacular Halloween Boo-Thru in the Botanical Gardens. Costumed characters will decorate a route through the Paget park, handing out ca...

A campaign to deliver breakfasts to children in their homes was a “great success”, the charity that ran the event said yesterday. The Coalition for the Protection of Children said its first National Breakfast Day campaign on Monday delivered about 20...

Pupils and prisoners have been helped by a community group that launched campaigns to provide computers and books. The Grateful Bread rallied supporters, who paid for 20 Chromebooks for children and donated boxes of books to Westgate inmates. The gro...

Childhood obesity is on the rise and there does not seem to be any decline in obesity in general. Recently, The Royal Gazette reported on childhood obesity in Bermuda and as a new father, these words from the Bermuda Diabetes Association resonated wi...

A Bermudian aid worker who devoted the last 12 years to building a better life for Haitian children said that conditions in the stricken Caribbean country had descended to the worst he had ever seen. “I have seen devastation, but this is a whole diff...

Enough cash could be raised by Christmas to rebuild a playground destroyed by arson, a fundraising group said yesterday. Pig’s Field Family Connections, set up after the attack on the Pembroke park in April, added that the new playground was the firs...

A child mental health specialist said that being in nature was especially important for families working or teaching from home because of the coronavirus pandemic. Gwendolyn Creary highlighted that a shift to online classes and meetings could leave p...