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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...

Better communication among government departments, police and other agencies could help to prevent vulnerable children from “falling through the cracks”, a child protection group said yesterday. The Coalition for the Protection of Children added that...

A longtime child welfare campaigner welcomed a proposed law to improve protection for youngsters yesterday, but said it lacked a guarantee of funding for independent legal representation for vulnerable children in court. Sheelagh Cooper said: “I am v...

A Government farm programme designed to deter young people from a life of crime has welcomed its first participants. Eight “at-risk” young men were introduced to Redemption Farm this week. The programme was funded by the Government with public and p...

Two teenage graduates of an alternative education programme yesterday told how the institution had transformed their lives. Scott Bean and Kenyade McQueen have completed their general equivalency diploma at Success Academy and are looking forward to ...

Community homes for mental health treatment in Bermuda are to be funded by the Government, the Premier pledged. David Burt said that funding for the homes would come in the “very near future”. The statement drew applause from the audience at the se...

Two young men sent from Bermuda to an American reform school have told how they were beaten and humiliated by teachers, with one alleging he would lie in bed at night hearing students raping other children. Both were sent to Glen Mills Schools in Pen...

Traumatic events in childhood have become a “public health emergency” that policymakers must tackle from the top, an expert warned yesterday. Mark Cloutier said legislators need to understand how the wider community is affected not only socially but ...