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Police seized a record $29.5 million worth of narcotics last year and saw drug-related offences increase by more than 90 percent.
The number of confirmed firearms incidents rose by almost 90 percent and there were more murders, serious assaults, sexu...
DATE: Jan 26, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Each day, when Maxzine Puckerin walks out of her front door in Footbridge Lane, Pembroke, a wall of graffiti confronts her.
The words spray painted by local youths opposite her home commemorate her murdered son Perry Puckerin Jr, along with two of hi...
DATE: Jan 03, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Kerry Puckerin-Tear has a memory box in her bedroom containing three yellow paper hearts covered in her neat handwriting.
On each heart, the nine-year-old has carefully listed all the things she must do to help her deal with the murder of her father ...
DATE: Jan 03, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Draconian drugs laws are exacerbating rather than improving Bermuda's escalating gang warfare, according to former PLP MP Delaey Robinson.
He told the joint parliamentary select committee on violent crime and gun violence last week that Bermuda's lea...
DATE: Dec 13, 2010
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Former Police Commissioner Jonathan Smith called yesterday for better results from those working to prevent Bermuda’s at risk children falling into gang crime.
He told the joint select committee on violent crime and gun violence that “legislatively b...
DATE: Dec 10, 2010
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Bermuda’s gangs are in the process of reshuffling and will re-emerge a “more organised, robust force”, according to community activist Carlton Simmons.
He told the joint parliamentary select committee on violent crime and gun violence yesterday that ...
DATE: Dec 10, 2010
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways