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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...

The mom of murdered teenager Isaiah Furbert described her endless battle with grief and despair yesterday after her only son died at her feet. Arretta Furbert said she “lost faith in people” on the night a gunman opened fire on her 19-year-old in the...

A terrified woman jumped 20ft off a cliff into the sea in darkness to escape from her estranged boyfriend because he was armed with a handgun. The woman snatched the pistol out of Gavaska Lodge Bascome’s sweater pocket before leaping into the ocean o...

What began several years ago with the likes of the Bill Cosby scandal, which at best seemed an attempt to counter powerful men, including many celebrities who lived as though they had an untouchable entitlement as they used their clout to veil sexual...

Nearly $16,000 in fines were handed out to 20 motorists convicted of driving without due care and attention in Magistrates’ Court yesterday. Most appearances at the packed court session were motorcyclists guilty of “third laning”, which is subject to...

A robber terrorised four female staff and the general manager in a raid at an upmarket Southampton resort yesterday. The man, who was wearing a full-face helmet, threatened Pompano Beach Club staff with a knife and demanded access to the safe. The r...

A man caught with a loaded gun on his hip has been jailed for ten years. Dion Cholmondeley, from St George’s, had been out drinking with friends when he was stopped by officers as he drove along St Mary’s Road in Warwick on the evening of August 16, ...

A nature charity’s conservation plan in Somerset has been hit by damage to fencing at a protected reserve. Work by the Audubon Society at Somerset Long Bay nature reserve is now on hold because of the expensive damage. The group has appealed for thos...

A man who tried to smuggle nearly $250,000 worth of cocaine into Bermuda was jailed for 7½ years yesterday. Raza Mirza was caught as he came through customs at LF Wade International Airport with the drugs hidden in the lining of his bag. Mirza, 22, a...

“If you know something, say something.” Such a statement is normally couched in pleas from the police in the wake of yet another gun murder as Bermuda has struggled to come to grips with gang violence over the past decade or more. But the raft of se...

The island’s charity for military veterans has launched a campaign to recover a ceremonial sword that was stolen more than 20 years ago. The sword was taken from the historic Old Rectory, then the home of Lieutenant-Colonel Brendan Hollis, during the...