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The Christmas weekend was marred by “several serious incidents of note”, Superintendent Sean Field-Lament, of the Bermuda Police Service, emphasised yesterday.
He offered his condolences to the family of Phillip Benjamin James, who died after a road ...
DATE: Dec 29, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A public forum on gun violence has been called for tomorrow night after the Island’s latest troubles with firearms.
The event, at 6.30pm in the Bermuda Industrial Union’s headquarters, has been set by former government minister Dale Butler.
Former se...
DATE: Nov 17, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A guest worker has given a harrowing account of an armed robbery at her home in the early hours of yesterday, which left her visiting family traumatised by a knife-wielding assailant.
“It was like a nightmare,” said the woman, a Costa Rican who has l...
DATE: Oct 13, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A substantial amount of money collected by the Eastern Counties Cricket Association has been stolen from a car in St David’s.
Police confirmed yesterday that “a large quantity of cash” had been taken from an unattended car parked near St David’s Prim...
DATE: Jun 30, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A local man who dived into the sea to escape a search by airport Customs officers is now in custody after turning himself in.
Witnesses from the scene of the chase at LF Wade International Airport, on Sunday night, described an incoming passenger bol...
DATE: Dec 30, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Police staged an early-morning swoop in three parishes yesterday morning as the hunt intensified for those responsible for the murder of Prince Edness on Sunday.
As a result, a 20-year-old Southampton man is in custody and another man is still being ...
DATE: Dec 10, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A man was shot dead last night in a densely packed neighbourhood overlooking the Southampton Rangers Club.
At a hastily convened press conference at the scene, a police spokesman said: “The Bermuda Police Service responded to a report of a confirmed ...
DATE: Dec 08, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
“Radical education reform” would be a swift priority of a Progressive Labour Party Government, Opposition Leader Marc Bean declared in the Reply to the Throne Speech.
Economic diversification, plus an opening of Bermuda’s health insurance market to c...
DATE: Nov 15, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A prominent local cricketer and others in the local cricketing fraternity were targeted in Saturday’s pursuit of a car by gunmen on a motorcycle.
The incident, which culminated with shots being fired at the vehicle, ended with the car crashing at the...
DATE: Oct 01, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A 31-year-old woman has been arrested in connection with Monday’s assault on a teenager that has left the victim in critical condition at the hospital’s Intensive Care Unit.
Police reported that the woman, from Pembroke, is now in custody.
It follows...
DATE: Sep 10, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell