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I have the utmost respect for our lawyers and judges. Some of the brightest and wisest minds sit on the bench. What is baffling to me is the lack of knowledge for some when it comes to the minds of child sex offenders. Or is it that they must use pas...

A man who admitted accessing more than 23,000 items of child pornography was today given a ten month suspended sentence. Wong Li Shan was told in the Supreme Court that, although the material was “abhorrent”, it was on the lowest level of the scale. ...

World Children’s Day is celebrated annually on November 20. This was the date in 1959 when the UN General Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child. On the same day in 1989, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention...

Schools around the island celebrated World Children’s Day yesterday and raised money for a charity devoted to the welfare of families. The youngsters wore blue to mark the UN’s drive to better the lives of children around the world – and helped rais...

Tinée Furbert, the new Minister of Social Development and Seniors, pledged to bring “change where it is needed the most” for the island’s youth and elderly. Ms Furbert said the new Children’s Commission, pledged to replace the “outdated“ Child Care P...

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...

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...

Halloween was celebrated in miniature at a party in the park today. The baby members of Mumsea Bermuda playgroup gathered at Astwood Park in Warwick dressed in their spookiest clothes or as their favourite movie and TV characters. The costumed childr...

A judge launched a blistering attack on Government’s refusal to pay a social worker appointed to look out for the best interests of children in care, The Royal Gazette can reveal. Puisne Judge Nicole Stoneham told a hearing: “The welfare of children...

Reality TV star and socialite Paris Hilton joined a protest held in a bid to shut down a controversial American boarding school for troubled children used by the Bermuda Government. Ms Hilton, who spent almost a year at Provo Canyon School in Utah wh...

A schoolboy with severe autism has been refused permission to repeat a school year despite backing from his teacher and doctor. His parents said their son had the mental age of a five-year-old and, because of disruption to his education caused by th...

A social worker who sued the Government for more than $2.6 million over a failure to pay her for work on court cases that involved vulnerable children has settled the case for an undisclosed sum. Tiffanne Thomas claimed she was owed the money as paym...