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Gang expert David Kennedy believes Bermuda can get a grip on its gang problem in the space of a year if it truly commits to an Operation Ceasefire-style approach.
The criminal justice professor and author, who visited the Island and its gun-crime hit...
DATE: May 02, 2013
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Sam Strangeways
Two schoolboys who set out for a party armed with a metal baseball bat, knife and axe were spared prison and a criminal record in Magistrates’ Court yesterday.
Kenwell Pearman and Malik Wilson, both 16, who told police they were carrying the weapons ...
DATE: May 01, 2013
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A young man who stole $700 from his girlfriend’s father escaped a theft conviction yesterday but was ordered to pay the money back.
Leroy Henderson, of Brunswick Street, Pembroke, admitted stealing the cash from Winston Godwin but claimed he needed t...
DATE: May 01, 2013
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Court
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Sam Strangeways
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...
DATE: Apr 30, 2013
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Crime
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Sam Strangeways
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...
DATE: Apr 30, 2013
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Crime
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Sam Strangeways
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...
DATE: Apr 29, 2013
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Crime
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Sam Strangeways
The professor who came up with the Operation Ceasefire concept will be the keynote speaker at a police chiefs’ conference being held in Bermuda next week.
David Kennedy, of John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City, will talk about combat...
DATE: Apr 24, 2013
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Sam Strangeways
The new commission set up to save Bermuda’s ailing economy will dish out $20,000 to members of the public who come up with the best ideas for improving government.
Businessman Brian Duperreault, chairman of the SAGE (Spending and Government Efficienc...
DATE: Apr 23, 2013
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Politics
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Sam Strangeways
When Lynn Spencer’s son Chris died of an apparent heroin overdose, aged just 25, she was determined it would not be in vain.
In lieu of flowers, the devastated mother-of-two appealed for donations to a charity which helps young people stay drug-free ...
DATE: Apr 11, 2013
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Sam Strangeways
Every weekday morning at 7am, Sarah Delgross takes part in a challenging fitness session before she heads to work.
She did the CrossFit workout in the months before the death of her boyfriend Chris Spencer in October — and she returned to it two week...
DATE: Apr 11, 2013
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