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Intelligent and successful young women play an important role in Bermuda’s gang structure, community activist Gina Spence warned yesterday. Ms Spence, who supports families and communities affected by gun crime, revealed that gangs often try to attra...

A 42-year-old man was arrested yesterday after a woman spotted someone trying to break into her home. According to police, officers received a report of an attempted burglary on Steele Lane in Paget shortly before 1pm. A police spokesman said: “The v...

A teenager responsible for “a tidal wave” of break-ins pleaded guilty to a string of offences yesterday. The crime spree netted Elisha Thomas more than $22,000 of jewellery, cash and electronic equipment. Thomas admitted charges in connection with si...

Just in case anyone out there is of the belief that we have lost our minds and legalised cannabis in Bermuda, get off whatever it is you have been smoking — or drinking. The decriminalisation of cannabis is about to come into law for the specific pur...

A team set up to provide immediate help to people affected by violent crime represented the best of Bermuda, the national security minister said today. Wayne Caines described the co-ordinated Crisis Response Team as a “testament to the spirit of lov...

A man sentenced to 12 years behind bars for possession of a firearm has lost an appeal against his conviction. Eston Joell, 48, argued that he had been ambushed by new evidence in the middle of the trial, and that the jury should not have heard about...

An American educator is to be extradited to Bermuda to face sexual assault charges — more than ten years after his alleged offence against a teenage student at a local school. The accused, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, has been ordered ...

Decriminalisation of cannabis must be followed up with further laws and programmes to change Bermuda’s drug culture, according to an anti-racism charity. Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda welcomed the passing of legislation by MPs last weekend, wh...

A 32-year-old motorcyclist who hit a police officer on a busy pedestrianised lane was yesterday fined $2,750 and banned from the roads for a year. Colvin Brown, from Hamilton Parish, told Magistrates’ Court that he had been punched in the face and wa...

A community activist’s dream of establishing Bermuda’s first grief camp to help children deal with loss has moved a step closer. Gina Spence hopes to launch a bereavement camp to support the scores of grieving youngsters who have lost family to gun c...

A Joint Select Committee to look into the need for a public sex offenders register has been established. Progressive Labour Party MP Renée Ming will chair the Parliamentary Committee whose membership will include PLP MPs Chris Famous and Michael Week...

A Bill to decriminalise small quantities of cannabis was passed in the House of Assembly last night. The Misuse of Drugs (Decriminalisation of Cannabis) Amendment Act, tabled by Zane DeSilva, the Minister of Social Development and Sport, was designed...