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A teenage girl who died suddenly this week has had an online fundraising page set up in her memory by a cousin who lives overseas. Kiara Paiva, who was 15, was found unconscious in her Hamilton Parish home on Monday and later pronounced dead by docto...

The family of a young woman who took her own life has raised more than $20,000 for suicide prevention. Chris Gibbons and Susan Wakefield, parents of Jessica Gibbons, took part in the 16.7-mile Out of Darkness Walk in Philadelphia last month. Mr Gibbo...

A co-founder of a support group set up after his daughter took her own life said a failure to report suicide statistics reinforced the stigma associated with suicide. Chris Gibbons, who helped create Losing Someone by Suicide in 2016, said: “In my op...

The family of a young woman who took her own life are to take part in a charity walk in America at the weekend to raise funds for suicide prevention. Susan Wakefield and Chris Gibbons, parents of Jessica Gibbons, who was 25 when she died, will co-cap...

Help is available for people with suicidal thoughts, mental health experts said yesterday. Bermuda Hospitals Board psychologists Cherita Rayner and Shawnee Basden also emphasised the importance of discussions about suicide. Dr Rayner said: “The recen...

About 123 people die of it every day, but we still don’t want to talk about it. Those left behind often don’t receive casseroles or cards, flowers or fundraisers, hugs or visits. The obituaries, too, are evasive, resorting to euphemisms such as “died...

A mother whose daughter took her own life is preparing to take part in a dusk until dawn walk to raise awareness about suicide. Susan Wakefield Gibbons will take part in The Overnight Walk in Washington DC on June 17 in memory of her daughter, Jessic...

A support group set up by a father whose daughter took her own life has called for more data to be made publicly available about suicides in Bermuda. Losing Someone by Suicide has urged authorities to conduct more research into suicides and attempts ...

A grieving father whose daughter took her own life has set up a support group to help others who have been bereaved by suicide. Chris Gibbons’s 25-year-old daughter, Jessica, committed suicide on April 3 at her family home in Devonshire Mr Gibbons to...

Bermuda Mental Health Foundation has partnered with The Weekenders Running Group to launch a suicide prevention and depression awareness campaign. The Message In A Bottle Campaign, which will run throughout March, will involve about messages being pl...

Tali Gabai-Maiato will never forget the day her life changed forever. It was December 28, 2013 when she got the call her younger sister Kaelenne had committed suicide. She was completely shocked. “Kaelenne was amazing, funny, outgoing and outspoke...

A former Bermuda resident convicted of killing his stepfather in the UK was found dead in his prison cell. A spokeswoman for the UK prison service said that Nathan Vaughan-Jones, 34, was found hanging in his cell, in Lewes Prison, East Sussex, at aro...