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The latest class of graduates from the Right Living House programme were celebrated last week by Michael Weeks, the Minister of National Security. Four men successfully completed the programme, located at the Co-Ed Facility in St George’s, intended t...

Golfers will tee off at an event this weekend to help people affected by substance use disorder. Michaele Parfitt-Smith is staging the Smith-Hendrickson tournament at Belmont Hills on Saturday to mark the start of Recovery Month — observed in Septemb...

The types of drugs that young people consume in Bermuda is directly linked to exposure they have via home or community life, gang involvement, or through drug dealing. This is according to Camily Lovell, an internationally certified alcohol and drug ...

A fundraising drive has been launched by an anti-substance abuse charity as it sets its sights on a move east. Focus Counselling Services is expected to shift the bulk of its operations from Hamilton to its residential centre in St George’s. Leslie G...

The beauty of the character that Michael K. Williams brought to life on The Wire was his extraordinary complexity. Omar Little was a Black man who stalked the streets of Baltimore wearing a swashbuckling duster and carrying a deadly sawed-off shotgun...

An anti-drugs charity has expanded its annual fundraising day into a month-long virtual experience. Pride Bermuda, one of the island’s longest-standing charities, appealed to the public to find creative ways to donate and raise awareness of the organ...

Lamont Marshall, recently dethroned Bermuda Half-Marathon Derby champion, sits down with freelance journalist PATRICK BEAN in a wide-ranging interview that covers his ups and downs, successes and failures, in and away from athletics, warts and al...

The head of an anti-substance abuse charity has been awarded cash from a charitable foundation to help develop his leadership and support skills. Leslie Grant, the executive director of Focus Counselling Services, was awarded $8,525 by the Duperreaul...

The leader of an anti-substance abuse charity said it hoped to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to help the organisation expand. Leslie Grant, the executive director of Focus Counselling Services, added there were plans for building proj...

Men who struggled with substance abuse problems have revealed how a charity had helped them make positive changes in their lives. Clients of Focus Counselling Services said the organisation’s programmes supported their paths to recovery. One, whose ...

A major funding boost is needed to help “invisible” residents affected by substance abuse, a charity leader said yesterday. Leslie Grant, the executive director of Focus Counselling Services, added that it was important to remove the stigma that pre...

Growing up with a destructively alcoholic parent is fodder for humour as well as shock in Kirkland Hamill’s Bermudian-American memoir. But Mr Hamill’s deeper message, to be shared on Wednesday in a live webinar about his just-published book, is: you’...