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Women are encouraged to attend a workshop on personal safety and awareness after a sex attack in broad daylight at the weekend.
The Women’s Resource Centre, on Point Finger Road, is holding the session on July 18 to teach females how to protect thems...
DATE: May 31, 2011
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Crime
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Violent gangs are recruiting members as young as eight on Facebook and Twitter and luring slightly older children on BlackBerry phones, a detective revealed last night.
Gang expert Sergeant Alex Rollin told a meeting for families at Elliot Primary Sc...
DATE: May 31, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Female joggers were warned to be vigilant after a weekend sex attack on a woman in broad daylight and an attempted attack on another.
The two incidents took place within the space of an hour on Saturday morning. A 29-year-old man was in custody last ...
DATE: May 30, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Shooting victim Ralph Burrows doesn’t know if he’ll ever get to go home.
Aged 41, he’s had to accept he may spend the rest of his days in the extended care unit at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital.
“That took a little while getting used to,” he says...
DATE: May 06, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Convicted gangsters could be sent overseas to jail under proposed new measures for tackling what Police Commissioner Michael DeSilva last night called a “form of domestic terrorism”.
He told a public meeting attended by several hundred people at the ...
DATE: May 06, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
National Security Minister Wayne Perinchief yesterday postponed an official trip abroad after the fatal shooting in his constituency of 22-year-old Jason Smith.
He was due to travel to North Carolina with the Governor to visit the Bermuda Regiment on...
DATE: May 02, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Bermuda’s latest murder victim Jason Smith was a “good son” whose smile would light up a room, according to his mother.
Jacqueline Smith said the 22-year-old Regiment lance corporal, who was shot dead in what is believed to be a case of mistaken iden...
DATE: May 02, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Police took more than three years to investigate the suspected abuse of a vulnerable elderly woman and, in the meantime, the alleged victim died.
A senior prosecutor revealed yesterday she was first handed a file about “Miss C” and the two men who al...
DATE: Apr 15, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Not one person has been convicted under a law passed three years ago to protect Bermuda's seniors from abuse, The Royal Gazette can reveal. And the only case to make it to court under the Senior Abuse Register Act 2008 was thrown out by a magistrate ...
DATE: Apr 15, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Two young women have been arrested in connection with the gang-related fatal shooting of 26-year-old Jahmiko LeShore.
Detective Chief Inspector Nicholas Pedro said yesterday the females, aged 21 and 22, were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to com...
DATE: Mar 09, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways