Like many countries globally, Bermuda is confronted with changing behavioural patterns with many young people, especially in the area of gang activity that has claimed a number of lives through a disregard for law and order.
The Bank of Bermuda Foundation is shifting its funding approach to help tackle the ripple effects of Bermuda being “a historically overtly racially segregated and fundamentally unfair society”.
Mason West III, a pastor with the Building Communities First Ministry in Georgia and former Bermuda Institute teacher, warned that youth were more likely to join gangs if they felt they did not have a purpose.