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With Father’s Day approaching, attention will once again focus on the important role of fathers in helping to provide guidelines for sons or daughters in coping with the challenges of life. While mothers have always been regarded as key in providing...

A single mother with a part-time job and debt said yesterday she feared arrest for a missed hearing in “humiliating” debt court over a debt of just $1,300. Sheelagh Cooper, chairwoman of Habitat for Humanity in Bermuda, said that the woman’s plight s...

Children were dropped at school yesterday by parents unaware that there were no teachers to look after them because of an industrial dispute. Many principals across the schools system were forced to look after 100 or more pupils before the Ministry o...

Che Clarke’s daughter, Nache, laughs when she describes his introduction to ballet. “The first time he tried to do a leap, he was like an elephant,” she said of the former goalkeeper for Devonshire Cougars and Hamilton Parish Hot Peppers. Eventually,...

More than 130 members of the Catholic Church have taken child sex abuse prevention training after their leader made it mandatory for anyone who worked with young people, it was revealed yesterday. The Most Reverend Wesley Spiewak, Bishop of the Dioce...

A government employee has been accused of assaulting a teenage girl who refused to board a flight to the United States. The civil servant is alleged in an official document seen by The Royal Gazette to have assaulted the 17-year-old at LF Wade Intern...

Motherhood proved a minefield for Chalsey Trott. In desperate need of a community, she started her own on social media. MomWeek is a place where mothers can share their “struggles, successes or journeys” without judgment or criticism. “I have shared ...

Police overstepped their authority when they handcuffed a 15-year-old schoolboy in the care of the Department of Child and Family Services and locked him up at the Co-Ed prison last week, a Supreme Court judge has ruled. Assistant Justice Mark Pettin...

A mother has accused the child protection agency of failing to help her 15-year-old daughter, who ended up involved in drugs and became the subject of a string of cases in Family Court. The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, added that the...

Campaigners have called for the findings of an inquiry into allegations of misconduct at the island’s child protection agency to be made public. Lawyer Saul Dismont, who wrote the letter of complaint that triggered the inquiry, said yesterday: “I wou...

Two staff members at the island’s child protection agency have been disciplined after allegations of abuse and neglect against them were “substantiated”, The Royal Gazette can reveal. Police confirmed yesterday that neither incident had been reported...

Women’s reproductive rights and the need to combat a culture of “shaming” were championed yesterday at an International Women’s March. Women gathered at noon at Queen Elizabeth Park in Hamilton to celebrate this year’s global theme of #WomensWave, de...