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A warning about the risk of drugs in Halloween treats was issued today by the Government. A spokeswoman for the Department of National Drug Control said parents should be wary of unwrapped sweets which may have had marijuana added. She added: “Mariju...

After a series of administrative hiccups that delayed its launch by weeks, the Bermuda Police Service’s roadside sobriety checkpoints initiative can be regarded a nascent success. Not a roaring success — because in the overall interest of saving live...

Two sons of a government minister ran a drugs operation targeting university students in an English city, a court was told yesterday. Marcus Weeks, 28, and his younger brother, Dalji Waldron, 23, sons of Michael Weeks, the Minister of Social Develop...

A break-in at telecoms firm Digicel forced the store to stay shut yesterday until the afternoon. It was the second incident at the red landmark building on Church Street in Hamilton in three days. Thieves broke into the shop and stole an unknown quan...

Young people at risk of antisocial behaviour are in danger of slipping through the safety net, an activist has warned. Gina Spence, founder of the charity Gina Spence Productions, said that although there were up to 400 at-risk youngsters in the scho...

Shots were fired outside a house in Pembroke on Sunday night, police said yesterday. The incident in Happy Valley Lane was the fourth of its kind in a month inside a small radius in the central parishes. The latest firearms incident, which police sai...

Children as young as 10 could be at risk of gang recruitment, one activist claimed. Desmond Crockwell, an anti-violence campaigner, warned that schoolchildren could form links with gangs as early as middle school. He said: “A lot of these young peopl...

The teenagers accused of the murder of Bermudian student Lyrico Steede met in a car after he was stabbed in a park, a court heard yesterday. Nottingham Crown Court heard that as Mr Steede was dying of his wounds in hospital, the group alleged to be r...

A man who crashed his motorbike while more than three times over the alcohol limit was banned from the roads for 18 months and fined $1,350 yesterday. Don Simmons, 55, pleaded guilty in Magistrates’ Court and apologised for the crash, which happened ...

Bermuda College students are to wear red tomorrow in a protest against violence. The initiative was organised by student organisation MenSpeak as part of the college’s Spirit Week. Lyndon Jackson, the coordinator for MenSpeak, said: “Although this ...

Fourteen people were arrested for impaired driving over the weekend, including two who were involved in crashes. A 59-year-old driver was arrested after his car collided with an 18-year-old motorcyclist on South Road, Warwick, on Friday, at about 10....

The Bermuda Police Service have confirmed the hunt is still on for the person who fatally shot Colford Ferguson. Khyri Smith-Williams, 27, was found guilty of premeditated murder and the use of a firearm to commit an indictable offence in the 2011 k...