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People are finally starting to recognise their own role in tackling Bermuda’s violence problems now that they can no longer blame the One Bermuda Alliance, according to an anti-gang campaigner. Desmond Crockwell believes the Progressive Labour Party’...

Better education and narrowing income inequality are the keys to solving gang violence, the new Minister of National Security said yesterday. Wayne Caines said: “Violence and antisocial behaviour must be addressed. Strong enforcement is a part of the...

Bermuda’s community is “reeling from the shock” of its gang violence problems and failing to address the issues behind them, according to social worker Martha Dismont. Young men — often dismissed by their schools and families as incapable of learning...

Desmond Crockwell has lost numerous family members to violence — but his new magazine, Visionz, is much more than just a personal story. The quarterly publication, now on sale across the island, features former local gang members, victims of violence...

A public multi-agency forum next week will address steps to solve Bermuda’s gang violence problem. The forum — Ending Gang Violence and Exploitation — will be put on by the Interagency Committee for Children and Families, in partnership with the Int...

Recently the police gave what should have been an alarming report for every family in Bermuda when they announced that some of our youth who are barely in their teens were gravitating towards gang activity. This would indicate that, despite efforts t...

Dear Sir, On behalf of the Visionz team, I would like to thank the following for their hard work and support, for helping to make Visionz Anti-Violence pre-launch a success. Without them there would be no Visionz. Argus (Charmaine Burgess and Joy Pim...

A social worker aiming to break Bermuda’s gang cycle is calling on employers to take a chance on young men with troubled histories. Kimberley Jackson, managing director of Team Street Safe, said giving “proven risk individuals” secure training and em...

Dear Sir, What a fine young man Desmond Crockwell must be to stand up in this community and declare his feelings in a non-violent magazine — a magazine to be published and disseminated in schools and clubs, and to be purchased. It has taken someone w...

The loss of family and friends to gang violence has spurred one man to launch an anti-violence magazine promoting peace in Bermuda. Desmond Crockwell has realised his dream of a quarterly publication giving voice to those harmed by gang activity. It...

A teenager was reportedly stabbed yesterday in what police have said they suspect to be a gang related attack. According to a police spokesman, at around 5.30pm yesterday emergency services were dispatched to a reported assault in Pembroke. “It appea...

Senators Jeff Baron and Tinee Furbert called at Gilbert Institute to take part in Gang Resistance Education And Training graduation. Mr Baron, the national security minister, said connecting with young people can help them make the right choices as t...