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Bermuda’s top magistrate called for better mental health treatment options for people with intellectual disabilities after he was forced to hold a mentally challenged man in Westgate because he was kicked out of a group home. Senior magistrate Juan W...

The potential sale of a family home has been halted after the Court of Appeal found a bank had not done enough to protect its owners. HSBC Bermuda had sought to sell the Warwick home, which was put up by father and son Keith James and Keimon Lawrence...

A Southampton man who was caught drink driving on an unlicensed motorcycle was banned from the roads for two years and given community service. Magistrates’ Court heard Leroy Smith, 37, was stopped by police on South Road, Southampton, on June 14. He...

A man who led police on a chase through Warwick was fined for possession of cocaine. Arndell Lightbourne, 42, pleaded guilty to possessing 1.29 grammes of the controlled drug. Magistrates’ Court heard that police on Middle Road in Warwick noticed Lig...

A prominent former cricketer has been sentenced to two years’ probation after admitting an assault on his father. Chris Foggo, 38, a former St George’s Cup Match and Bermuda wicketkeeper-batsman, appeared for sentencing in Magistrates’ Court last Fri...

A woman charged with firearms related offences will go to the Supreme Court for trial, the Court of Appeal has ruled. The case was dismissed by the Supreme Court last October, but the Court of Appeal overturned the decision in a judgment yesterday. T...

Prosecutors have lodged an appeal to seek a longer prison sentence for a sex offender. Chez Rogers, 20, was jailed on July 15 after he admitted he had unlawful carnal knowledge of a 13-year-old girl and lured her. The offences took place between Augu...

A veteran teacher and education official said yesterday she was disappointed but not embittered, after a court rejected her bid to overturn the appointment of the Commissioner of Education. Gina Tucker had argued that she was not given a fair opportu...

A 25-year-old St George’s man accused of an attempted gun murder will spend at least two more weeks in custody after his bail application was delayed because his lawyer is overseas. Taaj Muhammad appeared in Magistrates’ Court yesterday and explained...

A 54-year-old woman was sentenced to two years’ probation in the Supreme Court yesterday after Acting Puisne Judge Juan Wolffe ruled against a defence lawyer’s submission in favour of a publication ban. Mary-Beth Sherwin, from Paget, was found guilty...