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The island’s three banks have told the Government they “won’t bank casinos”, according to the chairman of the Bermuda Casino Gaming Commission. Alan Dunch told a gathering of business leaders yesterday that the island’s fledgeling casino industry may...

Child safety campaigner Sheelagh Cooper is calling for a “dangerous offender” law to ensure paedophiles and others convicted of sex offences have to be supervised upon release from prison. Mark Pettingill, chairman of the joint parliamentary select c...

An elevator at a government-owned nursing home for seniors has been broken since May leaving residents “stuck” in their rooms, it was alleged in Parliament yesterday. Opposition Senator Renee Ming told the Upper House that the lift was broken at the ...

Information commissioner Gita Gutierrez has issued her first order compelling a senior civil servant to release a public access to information decision. Ms Gutierrez filed the order at the Supreme Court against the permanent secretary at the Ministry...

National security minister Jeff Baron said yesterday that Bermuda’s recidivism rate was falling and at an “all-time low”, describing it as a measure of the success of prison rehabilitation programmes. The government senator told the Upper Chamber tha...

Senator Jeff Baron has accused new Opposition leader David Burt of giving election “platitudes” which the public won’t buy in his Reply to the Throne Speech. The national security minister questioned how Mr Burt could say people of any sexual orienta...

Michael Dunkley has accused a union leader of “irresponsible” comments about this year’s Throne Speech. The Premier said during a live online question- and-answer session with readers of The Royal Gazette that he did not think Mike Charles, general s...

The case of paedophile John Malcolm “Chalkie” White has “highlighted the gaps” in Bermuda’s system for dealing with sex offenders, according to a charity head. Jon Brunson, chairman of Saving Children and Revealing Secrets, said the release of the fo...

This is the face of convicted paedophile John Malcolm “Chalkie” White, who walked free from prison last month. Michael Dunkley pledged on Thursday that a photograph would be released to the public of the sex predator during a live question and answer...

Attorney-General Trevor Moniz insisted yesterday he was unable to tell the public about the release from prison of paedophile John Malcolm “Chalkie” White because a written policy on how to do so had yet to be drawn up — but a backbencher from his ow...