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The Corporation of Hamilton has offered a school essay challenge to students, as part of its ongoing recognition of its 225th anniversary of service to the city. The essay topic for the contest is “Homelessness in the City of Hamilton: How Do We Deal...

A day centre for Hamilton’s homeless with showers and other services could be on the cards. Dwayne Caines, the chief operating officer of the City of Hamilton, said the authority was looking for a building where the homeless could clean up, charge ph...

A struggling family could be separated in the new year if they are unable to keep their home in the face of rental arrears, it was feared yesterday. The mother said she risked eviction from a Bermuda Housing Corporation property. It was thought her c...

A senior man is homeless after months in jail having been forcibly removed by police from the former prison service headquarters, near Hamilton. James Dallas, 70, insisted that he had a family claim to the vacant building on Happy Valley Road, in Pem...

A life-changing centre for homeless mothers and children could be open by the middle of next year, its founders have revealed. The Transformational Living Centre for Families was created because of a need for accommodation and support to help young w...

A “national crisis” of homelessness is a major threat to the welfare of Bermudian children, charity leaders have warned. Elaine Butterfield, the executive director of the Women’s Resource Centre, said her organisation received calls every day from pe...

A Salvation Army spokesman said that homelessness was a “critical issue” after a homeless man broke into a Hamilton church for food. The spokesman said that church break-ins by homeless individuals were done out of desperation. He added that while th...

Costs to transform a former rest home into a transformational living centre for families are expected to be slashed after businesses lined up to donate time and materials. Sheelagh Cooper, the chairwoman of Habitat for Humanity of Bermuda, which is o...

It will very soon be my first anniversary as an elected MP. People often ask me how I am finding it up on the Hill. My first year as the newest Member of the House has certainly been interesting, sometimes frustrating, and, occasionally, profound. Th...

Two donors have pledged a total of $75,000 to transform a former rest home into a life-changing centre for homeless families since an appeal was launched last month. The leaders of Habitat for Humanity of Bermuda and the Women’s Resource Centre said ...

A woman who spent more than a decade working with New York’s underprivileged is the new head of a Bermuda charity that provides food for the disadvantaged. April Augustus, the executive director of the Eliza DoLittle Society, said the queues she saw ...

The island “desperately needs a multi-purpose facility” to shelter its homeless, government backbencher Michael Weeks implored the House of Assembly. Mr Weeks called upon MPs on both sides of the House “with as much passion as I can muster” to put th...