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I don’t smoke anything and I have no prejudice for those who do. For me, it was perhaps a degree of fate that prevented me from being a smoker. I, just like so many schoolboys back in the Sixties, sneaked away to have a draw on what was then a new m...

A 44-year-old woman has been charged with the theft of more than $2,700 worth of prescription drugs. Fiona Iris was accused of using invalid prescriptions 41 times to obtain codeine and atasol painkillers. Prosecutors alleged in Magistrates’ Court ye...

A drink-driving motorcyclist who crashed into a wall was banned from the roads for 18 months and fined yesterday. Magistrates’ Court heard that Anthony Darby Jr, 22, hit a wall on Crow Lane in Devonshire close to the roundabout. He was taken to the K...

The trial of two people accused of a murder 13 years ago was adjourned yesterday and the jury released. Cleveland Rogers, 52, and Katrina Burgess, 48, have denied the premeditated murder of Marcus Gibbings in 2006. Mr Gibbings, originally from Trinid...

A British man was fined $1,000 yesterday after he pleaded guilty to cocaine possession. Magistrates’ Court heard that police officers spotted Fardin Mohammadi, 23, acting suspiciously with another man near the flagpole on Front Street. Officers appro...

An American tourist who attacked a woman at a bar was fined $800 yesterday. Lauren Soto, 21, pleaded guilty to a “shameful” assault on Sherry Flanagan at the Hamilton Princess & Beach Club. Magistrates’ Court heard that Ms Flanagan was with her husba...

A victim of gun violence who has struggled for financial compensation said yesterday that he was enraged by comments from an MP. The man, who spoke to The Royal Gazette on condition of anonymity, said: “I was infuriated when I learnt that Michael Sc...

Two men accused of bank fraud will be released on $10,000 bail today. Vladimir Vasilev, 31, and Nikola Aleksandrov, 40, are scheduled to be released from custody after they provided the police with passcodes to their phones over the weekend. The pair...

A 54-year-old man who committed a string of sex offences against a ten-year-old girl more than two decades ago was sentenced yesterday to 12 years in prison. The woman’s victim impact statement read in Supreme Court said Pernell Brangman “groomed and...

Young people are to get the chance to live and work in Ghana as part of a plan to tackle gang violence. The governments in Bermuda and Ghana struck the deal after top officials from the West African country, including Papa Owusu-Ankomah, Ghana’s High...

Sobriety checkpoints will be in effect over the Cup Match holiday. A notice in the Official Gazette said roadside sobriety checkpoints will be in place in eight of the island’s parishes between August 1 and 4. St George’s, Hamilton Parish, Smith’s, D...

Dear Sir, This bike has been parked in Scenic Heights Lane, Southampton, for the past three weeks. Having seen Derek Myers’s successful bike recovery in your daily, I’m not sure if this bike was abandoned or not? SHEILA HENDRICKSON Southampton