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A man with mental health problems was jailed for one month to help him receive the shelter and treatment he needs. Dwayne Hassan, 28, was also sentenced during Magistrates’ Court yesterday to one year’s probation after his imprisonment to ensure cont...

The Commissioner of Police is to be allowed to challenge an order to reinstate an officer fired for gross misconduct. The Public Service Commission ruled last August that Police Constable Oswin Pereira should not have been dismissed over allegations ...

A social inquiry report was ordered on a man who admitted four charges of attempting to smuggle contraband into prison. Dimitri Swan, 24, pleaded guilty in Magistrates’ Court on Monday to an attempt to take cannabis, cigarette papers, tobacco and can...

The Supreme Court has found there was no evidence to convict a man accused of a 2016 bike theft and robbery. Shayne James was charged with the two offences after his fingerprints were found on the stolen motorcycle and a helmet after a high-speed cha...

A man was accused yesterday in Magistrates’ Court of of hitting and choking his wife. John Young, 50, pleaded not guilty to an assault on Georgina Sosa. The incident is alleged to have happened at their Devonshire home on January 8. The court heard t...

A trial date was set yesterday for a woman who denied responsibility for an alleged dog attack on a nine-year-old boy. Chantelle Thomas, 46, will return to Magistrates’ Court on April 26. Ms Thomas, from Pembroke, pleaded not guilty on December 9 to ...

A barrister said he was stunned to be told on Christmas Eve he had been rejected for jobs as a Legal Aid lawyer – after two years’ work as a consultant with the office. Paul Wilson added that two applications he submitted to become a permanent staff ...

Some of the millions of dollars that went missing from a loan to a failed hotel development has been recovered, a source has said. But the insider warned that substantial sums had been spent on legal bills and other service in the five-year court bat...

Three Bermudian women who smuggled almost $70,000 of cocaine into Britain through “internal concealments” have been jailed. Catara Mattie, 20, Shantori Daniels, 23, and Shaliquah Talbot, 27, were questioned by officials after arriving at Gatwick on a...

The Supreme Court has upheld a decision not to charge two policemen over allegations of attempted rape of a fellow officer. Mark Pettingill, the lawyer for the complainant, argued Larry Mussenden, the then Director of Public Prosecutions made “danger...