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Bermuda’s most vulnerable were shown some love after an insurance group teamed up with voluntary services to distribute care packages on St Valentine’s Day. The MoonGate Group handed out 150 “we care packages” stocked with food, hygiene products and ...

The Salvation Army’s emergency homeless shelter in Pembroke has been given a major boost after the Government and two businessmen joined forces to improve the almost 40-year-old facility. The Government, Jim Butterfield and Kirk Kitson have funded $...

Charity leaders said a final funding push will help get them over the line to complete a life-changing centre for struggling parents and their children. They praised the kindness of companies who had helped them to turn a former rest home into the Tr...

A former school once earmarked for emergency housing has been ruled “surplus to Government requirement”. Now the Ministry of Public Works has asked for expressions of interest to renovate the former Bishop Spencer School in Pembroke. A spokesman sai...

A church breakfast programme for the homeless is to beef up security after a fight broke out on Saturday at its weekly gathering, a spokesman said yesterday. David Thompson, of the “Loads of Love” programme at Christ Church in Warwick, said the organ...

A senior who admitted throwing a corrosive liquid at police in a seven-hour stand-off escaped a jail sentence yesterday. James Dallas, 71, who was released from custody in November last year after nine months in jail, was sentenced in the Supreme Cou...

A mother of five hopes to inspire others by sharing her journey from being homeless to becoming an entrepreneur. Chrystal-Lynn El was having trouble finding full-time work in Bermuda in 2014 and decided to relocate to Atlanta in hopes of finding a jo...

Most of the homeless people sheltered in the Government’s emergency centre over the Covid-19 pandemic are back on the streets after it closed, it was revealed yesterday. Kathy Lynn Simmons, a senator and the Attorney-General and Minister of Legal Aff...

A plan to help homeless men and women housed by the Government after a coronavirus curfew was imposed is in the works, the City of Hamilton said yesterday. A temporary shelter, at CedarBridge Academy in Prospect, will cease to operate after the curfe...

An emergency homeless shelter has been moved from Pembroke to Prospect. The shelter, set up under the state of emergency shelter in place regulations, was transferred from the Berkeley Institute to CedarBridge Academy. Kathy Lynn Simmons, the Attorne...

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...