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Rickeisha Burgess went to school with many of the young shooting victims she has to tend to as part of her job as an emergency medical technician at King Edward VII Memorial. But the fact she has known them since childhood and still stops to chat wit...

Jahma Gibbons believed he could make a big difference to Bermuda’s gun violence problem when he formed the Facebook group Stand Up Bermuda earlier this year. The reformed gang banger launched the initiative on the social networking site in April in o...

School counsellor Anthony Peets spoke to The Royal Gazette about the effects of gun violence on the children he helps. Father-of-two Mr Peets began his career at St George’s Secondary School, before spending a decade at Clearwater Middle School. He w...

Calls to Crime Stoppers Bermuda rose during The Royal Gazette’s series highlighting the 12 unsolved gun murders since May 2009, according to the charity’s chairman. John Drew said the in-depth articles and videos on the fatal shootings “put Crime Sto...

The Government body which compensates victims of crime cannot cope with the growing number of applications for cash, Attorney General Kim Wilson has admitted. The Criminal Injuries Compensation Board (CICB) has had its budget cut in recent years, as ...

Senate Leader Kim Wilson yesterday added her voice to concerns over this newspaper’s story which highlighted Bermuda’s per capita murder rate and compared it with the global average. “With great power comes great responsibility. Freedom of the press ...

Business Development and Tourism Minister Wayne Furbert yesterday criticised The Royal Gazette for its front page story saying that the Island’s murder rate was double the global average. It should have been buried in the paper and good news given a ...

Bermuda’s per capita murder rate has skyrocketed to almost double the global average in 2011. Eight people have been violently killed so far this year, giving the Island a rate of 12.5 murders per 100,000 people. That compares to a world average of 6...

Middletown was filled with candlelight last night as friends and family of Shaki Crockwell came together to remember the murdered football player. Mr Crockwell, 25, was fatally shot on August 24, 2007 on the Railway Trail near Loyal Hill. He would ha...

By Sam Strangeways The “callous and cowardly” murder of “normal, decent” Jason Smith is still baffling detectives more than six months after he was shot. Officers investigating the slaying of the 22-year-old on May 1 have been unable to pinpoint any ...