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A man who admitted two sex offences against a 13-year-old schoolgirl is be sentenced at Magistrates’ Court next week. Senior magistrate Juan Wolffe signalled that Khayriek Woolridge, 27, would probably be sentenced to time served after he spent five ...

Christopher Famous About one month ago, I received a notification on Facebook that Dexter Smith had tagged me in a post. My first instinct was that somehow he was going through delayed withdrawal symptoms and was yearning to talk about the “greatest ...

A wave of mental health problems in families will sink Bermuda if action is not taken, the freshly retired head of a major charity warned yesterday. Martha Dismont, who stepped down as executive director of Family Centre on Tuesday after 30 years, sa...

A judge renewed calls for better treatment for mentally ill offenders after he jailed a man for indecent exposure only three days after he was released from prison. Eric Richardson, 29, pleaded guilty to exposing himself to a woman in an incident on ...

Residents were urged to remember the importance of kindness as mental health awareness campaigns took place in other countries. The Bermuda Mental Health Foundation said that stress levels had increased for everyone because of the coronavirus crisis....

A man who challenged a blanket ban on bike riding during shelter in place has been allowed back on the road. Karl Outerbridge was cleared to practise the sport by Wayne Caines, the Minister of National Security, after he told The Royal Gazette that n...

Cycling kept Karl Outerbridge’s mental health challenges at bay; shelter-in-place took that coping mechanism away from him. Over the past three weeks, he has struggled with severe depression in the tiny home where he lives alone in North Hamilton, wi...

Like a lot of teens, Lilly DeCouto has spent the past 13 years working towards one goal — university. When Covid-19 hit, her final examinations were cancelled. “Two years of work have just gone out the window,” the 17-year-old Bermuda High School st...

The Covid-19 pandemic is as big a threat to mental health as it is to physical health, and some in Bermuda are already suffering the effects, specialists said. Kelly Madeiros, Adriene Berkeley and Grant Farquhar of Solstice Bermuda, an holistic welln...

A $1.9 million boost to spending on health will help treat people with mental health problems, it was revealed in the Budget yesterday. Curtis Dickinson, the Minister of Finance, explained that the Ministry of Health budget was “among the few” that w...

When I was 7, my mom took me and two friends on a play date to see Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame. The animated film is set at Paris’s iconic cathedral, but as a little kid who knew nothing about Catholicism, I had no way of anticipating that t...

A three-times Olympic runner who has battled bipolar disorder asked people yesterday to drop stigma towards mental illness so they can help others tackle their mental health problems. Suzy Favor Hamilton explained that it could take a long time for s...