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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 ...

It has been a year since 22-year-old Jason Smith was fatally shot in Pembroke — but his friends say they miss him just as much as ever. A group of them will hold a memorial for the Saltus graduate and Regiment lance corporal at his graveside at St Jo...

Prosecutors have decided not to charge two men accused of abusing and exploiting a vulnerable old woman in her own home. Police spent years investigating allegations against the pair but didn’t share their findings with the Department of Public Prose...