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Dear Sir, I read in the news recently about the stabbing by a young man over a piece of jewellery — a gold chain, to be specific. It is obvious that this young man and others who engage in similar acts have experienced a complete disconnect from soci...

A founder of the Free Democratic Movement said that stronger anti-violence policies were needed to improve the party’s chances of victory in a General Election. Desmond Crockwell, an anti-violence campaigner and community worker, said he would like t...

A teenager who admitted taking a knife to school was sentenced to two years’ probation. Malachi Fox, 18, also pleaded guilty to handling $800 worth of stolen goods at Magistrates’ Court on Monday. The court heard Fox was at the Berkeley Institute on ...

A troubled teenager was spared jail yesterday after a court heard he had experienced “a great deal of trauma and turmoil”. Zywonde Lema said he was “really remorseful” after he pleaded guilty to taking two motorcycles without consent and twice handli...

Dear Sir, Today, we wring our hands in despair as our children, our very offspring run amok, maiming and killing each other with a seeming callousness and lack of feeling — just like in the movies and the computer games they play day in and day out. ...

Almost 800 men and boys who claimed they were abused at a harsh US reform school where the Bermuda Government sent vulnerable children for more than 30 years are to take legal action. The Legal Intelligencer reported last week that two Philadelphia l...

“Chronic social isolation” contributed to a surge in violence over the National Heroes Day weekend, according to Wayne Caines, the national security minister. But Mr Caines told the House of Assembly: “Bringing harm to others and instilling fear in t...

A US residential treatment centre will not be disciplined by state regulators after the death by suicide of a Bermudian teenager, it was reported. West Ridge Academy, in West Jordan, Utah, was investigated by the state’s Department of Human Services’...

Young people are to get the chance to live and work in Ghana as part of a plan to tackle gang violence. The governments in Bermuda and Ghana struck the deal after top officials from the West African country, including Papa Owusu-Ankomah, Ghana’s High...

An anniversary is the yearly recurrence of the date of a past event. For some, an anniversary date is a reminder of a pleasant or happy event or time. For others, it is an unpleasant reminder of pain, hurt and suffering. It is a date that one would r...

Information Commissioner Gitanjali Gutierrez has upheld a decision by the Department of Internal Audit to withhold the findings of an inquiry into the head of the island’s child protection agency. However, Ms Gutierrez told The Royal Gazette that alt...

Last week, the Government rushed legislation titled the Child Safeguarding Bill 2019 through the Senate, despite Opposition protests as to the unnecessary disregarding of due process. Only senators were invited to a briefing session less than 48 hou...