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A mother has been given permission by the Supreme Court to pursue legal action against the police and the island’s child protection agency over the seizure of her toddler son. The three-year-old was removed from the woman’s lap while police officers ...

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...

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’...

The Department of Youth, Sport and Recreation is advising the public that all of its summer day camps are fully subscribed. A Department spokesperson noted that the annual programme is very popular and vacancies typically fill up very quickly. This...

Zoe Kempe-Gibson was riddled with anxiety after her son, Archer, was born. She had to have an emergency Caesarean section because the umbilical cord was wrapped around his neck. That Archer was born on April 5, the second day of lockdown, only added...

A young mother is suing police and the island’s child protection agency for allegedly seizing her son unlawfully as she was about to board a flight with him to escape her abusive boyfriend. The woman, who was heading to a new life in the United State...

Only one daycare centre has been given the green light to reopen, the Government said yesterday. A spokeswoman for the Ministry of Health said the kindergarten had been granted approval to operate as part of Phase 2 of the relaxation of Covid-19 rest...

The Third Sector has played a critical role in Bermuda’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic. For many it feels like the first time the sector as a whole has been widely recognised for the role it plays in building the wellbeing of our community. The ...

As National Child Abuse Prevention Month comes to an end, our hope at Saving Children and Revealing Secrets is that the ramifications of the novel coronavirus will be behind us soon so that our children can come out of isolation. While shelter-in-pla...

Most fathers are not shirking their relationship, their responsibilities, nor are they emotionally and mentally abusing their children. It is evident that most of our society suffers from the misguided misconceptions that lead to negativity towards f...

Long before the tragic death of Kirsta Simons, The Royal Gazette has been snapping at the heels of the Department of Child and Family Services as a result of reports getting back to us that young people in government care were not getting the best ou...

A number of concerns in Bermuda have risen recently about abuse on the increase while the root causes go unaddressed. According to empirical research, these mores of conflict are usually caused by divorce/separation in most cases, with no allegations...