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A team set up to provide immediate help to people affected by violent crime represented the best of Bermuda, the national security minister said today. Wayne Caines described the co-ordinated Crisis Response Team as a “testament to the spirit of lov...

The mom of murdered teenager Isaiah Furbert described her endless battle with grief and despair yesterday after her only son died at her feet. Arretta Furbert said she “lost faith in people” on the night a gunman opened fire on her 19-year-old in the...

A new group will offer support to men affected by gang and gun violence. Wayne Caines, Minister of National Security, and Pastor Leroy Bean, the island’s gang violence reduction co-ordinator, announced the initiative at a press conference this after...

Dellwood Middle School students treated a packed auditorium to an encore of their contest-winning performance this morning. The M3 drama students shared their multimedia piece with those in attendance at the Salvation Army headquarters on Reid Stree...

Pastor Leroy Bean used the Live, Love, Life youth talent contest on Sunday night to reveal how he plans to reach out to young people vulnerable to the lure of gang culture. The event, hosted by Juanae Crockwell, who has spoken about the role women c...

Desmond Crockwell, the creator of anti-violence magazine Visonz, has issued a rallying call to Bermuda’s sports and community clubs to take a more prominent role in ending gang violence. Crockwell would also like to see more teachers, principals, co...

The Government has teamed up with an island promoter to produce an anti-violence talent show. Wayne Caines, the Minister of National Security, said the show will give young Bermudians the chance to highlight their talent and create a “soundtrack of p...

More than $50,000 of funding has been assigned to an organisation fighting gang violence and antisocial behaviour. Kimberly Jackson, managing director of Team Street Safe, said of the grant: “As we understand, it represents continuing funding for th...

The mother of Ricco Furbert, who was murdered in 2013, used an anti-violence event on Saturday to plead for help from the community to intervene in the life of another young man who she believes could suffer the same fate. Nicole Fox spoke at the Pea...

A fresh bid to tackle gangs and antisocial behaviour in an island parish is to take place tonight. The launch of Peace in Hamilton Parish comes after a wave of murders and attempted murders in the area. Desmond Crockwell, of Youthvision Promotions, s...

Baseball superstar Darryl Strawberry won four World Series titles with the New York Mets and New York Yankees, amassing no small amount of fortune along the way. But the former slugger told an audience of schoolboys at the Berkeley Institute last nig...

People wasted time arguing about Pastor Leroy Bean when they should have been tackling the real issue behind the gun violence epidemic, according to shadow national security minister Jeff Baron. Mr Baron highlighted the plight of young black men as h...