Six men rob teens of cycle at the tip of a machete

Police are looking for six men who robbed two teens of an auxiliary cycle on Glebe Road, Pembroke near Victor Scott Primary around 10.30 p.m. Monday night.

A 16-year-old and a 17-year-old from Warwick were standing near their green Suzuki RC50 when six young men on two orange Yamaha V50 and a silver Peugeot Luxor confronted them. The sextet were dressed completely in black clothing and sneakers.

When one man told the 16-year-old they were going to take the cycle, Police report his older friend told the men ?no, you are not!? but the pair fled when one of the men brandished a machete.

Police said only one machete was seen among the robbers and that the robbers did not attempt to use it. ?They did not say anything,? a Police spokesman said. ?They did produce it and showed them the machete.?

The cycle has not been recovered. Police are appealing for any witnesses or anyone with any information to contact the Hamilton Criminal Investigation Unit on 295-0011.

Resident?s friend loses leg to UK bomb

A former Londoner who last week spoke of her fears for three colleagues put in intensive car by the bombing has now learned that one of them has had a leg amputated.

Englishwoman Wendie Teppett, who has been working in Bermuda for three months at Evoke, said a former colleague at her old advertising agency near Tavistock Square had been on the bus when it blew up.

She said: ?He regained consciousness on Monday. He had to have his leg amputated. He loved to play football. He was burned very badly on one side of his face. He?s also partially deaf, that?s not uncommon and could be temporary. It?s very, very early.?

Ms Teppett, who like her colleague has Caribbean roots, said she was planning to send her brother round to visit her colleague, because her brother was also sporty but has lived a full life despite losing his leg while in the Army in Aden years ago.

She said her other two colleagues are also off the critical list.

Fine and banned for impaired driving

A night out in town cost a Sandys man $1000 and a twelve month ban from all vehicles after he pleaded guilty to driving while impaired.

Derrick Hill, 23, of Woodlawn Road, Sandys, admitted that just after 1 a.m. on June 25 Police stopped him as he was driving west on Reid Street. Hill became agitated and he started raising his voice in a loud manner and the officers noticed his speech was slurred.

On several occasions the Police asked Hill for his name but based on his loud tone of voice asked to leave the vehicle and noticed his breath smelled of intoxicants. When asked if he had been drinking, he did not reply.

After a breathalyser was taken, Hill?s blood alcohol level was found to be in excess of the legal limit of 80 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood.

Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner disqualified Hill from driving all vehicles for 12 months and fined him $1000 to be paid immediately or spend 90 days in prison.

Thiefe hits visitor?s hotel room

Jewellery and $350 in cash was taken from a visitor?s Paget hotel room as she slept on Monday morning.

Police said the break-in took place sometime between 2 a.m. when the visitor went to sleep and 4 a.m. after she woke up and realised someone had been in her room. Inquiries into this incident are underway.

Teen fined for having cannabis

A Pembroke parish man was fined $600 after pleading guilty to having 1.43 grams of cannabis.

Khyle Beckett, 18, of North Shore Road admitted to Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner that when Police arrested him on Court Street on March 12 at 1.40 a.m., they found a plastic Zip-lock bag with ?a vegetable matter? inside. When the Police asked him what this was, Beckett said: ?Its weed.?

Beckett was stopped on a motorcycle with a male passenger but with no headlights visible. Police noticed that Beckett was fidgeting with his side pant pocket. This behaviour aroused their suspicion and as Police searched his pockets Beckett swore. The Government Analyst later found the vegetable matter was cannabis.

Mr. Warner fined $600 to be paid immediately or spend sixty days in prison and promptly paid the fine.