The outspoken Reverend Kingsley Tweed is returning to Bermuda this week as a guest speaker for the 104th anniversary of Grace Methodist Church.

Rev. Tweed, a minister with the African Methodist Episcopal Church, is scheduled to speak at 4 p.m. on Sunday at Grace Methodist on North Shore Road in Pembroke.

Rev. Tweed, who is in his 70s, broke a 40-year exile from the Island when he returned in July 2003, in the run up to the General Election, and spoke at a PLP rally.

A pivotal figure in ending segregation in Bermuda, Rev. Tweed was one of the most vocal activists during the Theatre Boycott of 1959. He told audiences last summer that he fled the Island in 1961 after receiving death threats because of his activities.

Rev. Tweed said he was arrested at gunpoint in New York at the ?instigation of the then Bermuda Government?.

Rev. Tweed now lives in Bristol, England where he is the pastor of Mt. Zion AME church.

Pastor of Grace Methodist Church, Rev. Allen Walker said Rev. Tweed was coming to speak because his mother had been ?a pillar? of that church. Rev. Walker said he asked Rev. Tweed the last time he was here to talk at the ?great historical occasion? and he agreed.

Rev. Tweed?s talk will be preceded on Sunday by an 11.15 a.m. address by guest speaker Alfred Maybury and an anniversary march at 3 p.m. with the North Village band from the Ducking Stool to the church.

Magistrate Edward King threw out the case against a Pembroke man accused of animal cruelty after the Crown?s main witness ? a veterinarian ? was unable to attend court.

Malacki Eversley, 22, of Middle Town Road, Pembroke, was found not guilty yesterday of causing unnecessary suffering, pain or injury to his brindle type male pit bull dog by failing to provide medical care between a date unknown and December 4, 2003.

Animal warden Fabian Minors? testimony that he and head animal warden Jeffrey Benevides were called to a derelict building on Union Street on December 3 was cut short when Mr. King asked that he stand down for another matter be heard. Before the unrelated case was completed, Crown counsel Wayne Caines told Mr. King that the Crown had no more evidence to give Dr. Maureen Ware could not make it to court because she was in surgery.

Dr. Ware is the only witness who could testify that Eversley harmed his dog by failing to provide medical care, Mr. Caines explained. When Eversley wanted to speak ?on behalf of his dog? people in the Court?s gallery strongly encouraged him to remain seated ? and quiet.

?They say the truth will set you free,? Mr. King then commented. ?But the truth can lock you up. The truth can free your insides, your soul, but it cannot free you from the law. The evidence tendered by the Crown falls far short of establishing a case and therefore the defendant must be found not guilty.?

The Bermuda Police Service has promoted long-serving officer Steven Donnelly to Police Inspector.

Inspector Donnelly moved to Bermuda in 1988 as a uniformed patrol officer in St. George?s and Somerset before moving back to England in 1993.

Upon his return to the Island in 1995, he worked in the Training School, but not before another six month stint in St. George?s as a uniformed patrolman.

Insp. Donnelly served in the Lincolnshire Police between 1980 and 1988 and has served stints in the Warwickshire Police and Royal Cayman?s Police. After his promotion to Sergeant in 2001, he moved into the Western Division as Uniform Patrol Sergeant and then became Acting Inspector of uniform watch in Hamilton.

He has been Acting Inspector in the Police Support Unit (PSU) since April 2003.

A residential development which would appeal to people with disabilities has been turned down by the Development Applications Board (DAB).

An in-principle application by Cap-A-Laigle Ltd. development company to build five residential units on Point Finger Road in Paget was refused last week by the DAB because the number of units was over the limit that is permitted in that development zone.

The agent for the company, the architectural firm Linberg and Simmons, is appealing to have the application approved.

Architect Gary Simmons said: ?We?re only allowed to build 4.4 units on the property and we applied for five units. If the maximum was 4.5 we would be able to build the five. We will appeal to get the five units.?

The in-principle plans include five, single-level houses that Mr. Simmons said will be ?luxurious?. He said most developments across the Island are townhouse-style but that these would be more appealing to people with disabilities and the elderly.

On the heels of several reported break-ins early this week, Police yesterday issued a warning to local residents, to secure their homes and not to keep large amounts of cash on hand.

Residents of a home on Old Rectory Lane in Pembroke reported to Police that someone stole a wallet containing cash on Monday. That theft took place sometime between 10 a.m. and 4.40 p.m. And two people awoke in the early hours of Tuesday morning to find an intruder in their Glenwood Park Crescent, Warwick home. They told Police the intruder escaped after they chased him.

Unfortunately, he did get away with a purse containing $300 in cash and other personal items. He is described as a black male, about five feet, ten inches tall, wearing a grey sweat top and a black skull cap.

An 81-year-old woman awoke to find an intruder in her Scott?s Hill Road, Sandys home early Tuesday morning. Police said the woman told the man to get out and he told her he was searching for his keys. As the woman attempted to call Police, the man unplugged her phone.

She went to a neighbour?s and saw the man leaving. He is described as being between five-foot-four inches and five-foot-seven inches in height, in his 20s, wearing a white t-shirt and dark pants.

His hair was neatly braided. Nothing was taken from the home.