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A 27-year-old man appeared at Supreme Court today charged with the 2011 murder of Colford Ferguson. Khyri Smith-Williams, of Broome Street, Sandys, denied committing premeditated murder with another person not before the court on February 4, 2011. He...

A gas station cashier who was injured by a fleeing robber is “shaken up but OK”, according to her boss. Joseph Marable, co-owner of Esso Tigermarket on Crawl Hill, said the female employee went to the emergency room at King Edward VII Memorial Hospit...

Bermuda’s murder rate has halved over the past five years but it is too early to say the Island has turned a corner on violent crime among young black men, according to commentators. There were four murders on the Island in 2015, compared with a peak...

Bermuda is taking a holistic approach to tackling the “devastating phenomenon” of gun and gang violence, according to Police Commissioner Michael DeSilva. He told a conference of police chiefs yesterday that harnessing the whole community to tackle t...

Bermuda can change the behaviour of its gang members by warning them about consequences, morally engaging with them and helping them to change, according to a US gun crime expert. Professor David Kennedy, director of the Center for Crime Prevention a...

Bermuda’s own Operation Ceasefire will be officially launched next month — though many of the anti-gang initiative’s “building blocks” are already in place, according to Public Safety Minister Michael Dunkley. He told The Royal Gazette, in an exclusi...

An actuary who was found guilty of driving while using a hand-held device has lost her appeal against conviction in the Supreme Court. But Chief Justice Ian Kawaley ruled today that the sentence given to Catherine Farnsworth for listening to an iPod ...

Conan Harris nods vigorously when asked if he can give any examples of StreetSafe Boston success stories. “There’s a bunch of them,” says Mr Harris, of the young gangsters he has seen turn their life around thanks to the scheme. Mr Harris, StreetSafe...

Friends of gun murder victim Jason Smith are holding two fundraisers in his memory. The first is a seven-a-side football tournament on Saturday between 12pm and 5pm on Saltus School Field, when 16 teams will take part. Admission is $1. The following ...