September 5: Despite the economic downturn, plans are unveiled for a new ten-storey apartment block on the site of Bermy Cuisine in Park Road.

September 6: Attorney General Kim Wilson reveals Government lawyers have begun looking at parental responsibility legislation which could see moms and dads in Bermuda go to jail for their children's behaviour.

She told a press conference that prison time and heavy fines would be the toughest sanctions parents would face if they failed to rein in delinquent offspring. She said: "There is growing, justified concern in the community about juvenile crime and the state of Bermuda's families."

September 8: Free bus and ferry travel begins for students but there is no word on if and when it will be extended to adults.

September 10: An announcement was made that Premier Ewart Brown would get a second new car, with Peugeot GP2 replaced with a Toyota Camry. The news followed a June notification that GP1, also used BY Dr. Brown, was to be replaced. GP1, a BMW 750Li, was to cost the taxpayers about $90,000 in a cut-price deal.

The new GP2 was priced AT about $40,000. Later that month Government axed 45 vehicles in a cost-cutting move.

September 16: Ten people are arrested after Police raid the casino ship Niobe Corinthian while it was docked in St. George's and found people gambling. Under the Liquor License Amendment Act 1998 and the Prohibition of Gaming Machines Act of 2004, ten were arrested.

September 17: The latest Terra Nova test results reveal Bermuda's students are lagging behind the US average, despite progress in language and reading. Dr. Henry Johnson, consultant executive officer for Bermuda's education reform process, said: "We're certainly not where we want to be.

"The Ministry and the (Interim Executive) Board have said we want education in Bermuda to be among the world's best, and looking at these scores that's not true. "

The Terra Nova tests are administered throughout the US, and are based on a student sample representative of that country's population.

September 18: Finance Minister Paula Cox said there are "clear signals" local employment will be impacted as a result of the tectonic changes taking place in the US financial sector.

She said Government was closely monitoring events like the collapse of Lehman Brothers earlier that week and the US Federal Reserve's decision to bail out AIG which employs around 200 people in Bermuda.

September 18: Mike DeSilva becomes the new Deputy Police Commissioner of Police, succeeding Roseanda Young, who retired last year. Meanwhile Alf Oughton makes his last appearance as Senate president before his retirement.

September 22: Reverend Patrick White is appointed Bishop elect of the Anglican Church and says rights for gays should be protected.

September 24: Health Minister Nelson Bascome is cleared of $60,000 theft charges by a Magistrate after a year-long case his lawyer described as a "political witch-hunt by unseen forces".

Mr. Bascome, 52, was accused of stealing a bank loan intended to start up the Natural Business Company, a construction and water filter marketing enterprise.

Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner agreed with submissions made at an earlier hearing from defence lawyer Charles Richardson that the case should be thrown out.

September 27: Andre Hypolite is found guilty of the murder of Nicholas Dill following a three-week retrial at the Supreme Court. The 37-year-old defendant remained impassive as the jury returned a unanimous verdict.

They had heard gruesome evidence of how Hypolite went on the rampage with a knife amid a drug-fuelled sex party at the victim's home on Boxing Day 2004. Hypolite chopped Mr. Dill's girlfriend, Stacey Pike, in the head as she tried to defend him, leaving her with a permanent scar to her forehead.