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Prosecutors yesterday asked the Court of Appeal to uphold the conviction on two half-siblings jailed for the 2006 murder of 32-year-old Marcus Gibbings. Katrina Burgess and Cleveland Rogers claimed their case was not handled fairly and there was not ...

A defence lawyer called for legislative changes to allow juries not to sequestered at a hotel as half-siblings fought to have their murder convictions overturned. Cleveland Rogers and Katrina Burgess, his half-sister, were both convicted last year of...

A half-brother and sister jailed for a 2006 murder yesterday appealed for their convictions to be be quashed after a claim that jurors rushed their decision to avoid being sequestered overnight. Katrina Burgess and Cleveland Rogers were found guilty ...

A 38-year-old man appeared in Magistrates’ Court yesterday morning charged with a murder five years ago. Davin Providence was accused of having “unlawfully killed” Jevon Daniels, 35, between May 17, 2016 and June 13, 2016. He was not required to ente...

The Supreme Court has upheld a decision to fire a childcare worker for drinking on the job. The Department of Child and Family Services fired Cheyra Bell in February 2019 after Derrick Binns, the Head of the Public Service, found she was guilty of gr...

A prowler whose criminal history spanned 23 years was jailed for a year yesterday after he admitted prowling during the Government curfew. Magistrates’ Court heard that a woman was in the bathroom of her Paget apartment around midnight on July 16 las...

A man who appealed to Magistrates’ Court to let him keep his driver’s licence for the sake of his business has been given an 18 month ban. Adam King, 41, on May 25 appealed to Magistrates’ Court to keep his licence after he pleaded guilty to dangero...

A pressure group has accused the Government of hijacking a hearing on legal action to block the imposition of mandatory hotel quarantines for travellers to Bermuda. Constitutional Freedom Bermuda said lawyers for the Government “ambushed” the hearing...

The island’s top magistrate has called for a review of “egregiously low” penalties for businesses that fail to pay for staff health insurance. Senior magistrate Juan Wolffe told Magistrates’ Court on that the maximum $1,000 fine for offences was “a s...

A motorcyclist caught out after curfew started and later admitted he was “drunk” was last week sent to the DUI Court. Michael Simons, 25, pleaded guilty in Magistrates’ Court to a breach of the midnight to 5am curfew and refusal to take a breath test...