Upcoming: PRIDE ‘Celebrity’ Lock-Up

PRIDE Bermuda hosts its fourth annual “Celebrity” Lock-Up on Friday, March 30, 2012, when local personalities ranging from Cabinet Ministers to corporate VIPs will find themselves behind bars.

They will be seeking to raise  bail in the form of donations from friends, family and the public to aid community group PRIDE’s alcohol and drug prevention programmes.

A jailhouse is being created in the Washington Mall, centrally located in Hamilton. Come and the public is being invited to watch Bermudian “celebrities” face the judge.

Among Bermudian luminaries participating in this year’s fundraiser are Tourism Minister Wayne Furbert, former St. George’s Mayor E. Michael Jones, one-time Parliamentarian and Press Secretary to the Premier Jamahl Simmons, entertainer and tourism activist Tony Brannon, radio personality Sherri Simmons, Miss Bermuda Jana Outerbridge, Flagstone Re executive LaVonne Smith and interim Chamber of Commerce president Buddy Rego.

The 2007 Student survey commissioned by the Department for National Drug Control sited the following:

• Seven in 10 students have tried alcohol
• One  in 5 reported binge drinking
• Lowest age of first use was 10 years of age
• 50 percent of students report easy access to alcohol
• 24 percent of students reported smoking marijuana
• 14 percent of the students reported they have 4 best friends that smoke marijuana
• 23 percent have favorable attitude to smoking of marijuana

PRIDE Bermuda will use funds raised by the “Celebrity Lock-Up Event to supplement its LifeSkills programmes.

These programmes have proven to impact the prevention drug use

• Our target number for this year was 600 hundred students,
• Currently impacting 800 students from Primary – High School.
• There has also been an increased need for our psycho-educational programming
• Psycho-educational programming addresses anger management, feelings, grief and loss,
• Psycho-educational programming incorporates small groups of students from primary 1 and addresses their issues, issues that have become barriers to their learning.
• Your support is vital to sustaining our programs, impacting students to make positive life decisions.
• Removing barriers to learning results in increased drug prevention.

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