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A stranger in a crowd at the scene of a fatal shooting on Court Street told police where to find a hat allegedly dropped by a gunman. According to prosecutors, the baseball cap was later linked by DNA to a man accused of the killing, David Cox. Mr Co...

Members of the anti-violence group Stand Up Bermuda have split off to form a new group, Together for Bermuda, following a rift in the organisation’s leadership. Meanwhile, Stand Up Bermuda founder Jahma Gibbons says he plans to continue with the old ...

May 2, 2011 Dear Sir, With this latest tragedy of a young man shot for no reason, I feel compelled to state the obvious to the public. Stop voting for an inept Government. Crime and prices are the only things that have gone up under the PLP governmen...

May 5, 2011 Dear Sir, I quote from The Royal Gazette’s article on February 4, 2011 regarding the 100 days status report that Premier Cox presented: 1) “The necessary reform of Government is pivotal. During the first 100 days, ministries have been re-...

May 2, 2011 Dear Sir, Jamaican legal expert Frank Phipps QC stated recently: “Imprisonment, especially in Jamaica’s penal facilities, is sometimes worse than death.” It costs approximately $10,000 to house a prisoner annually in Jamaica $80,000 in B...

Last week’s public meeting on crime was important on a number of levels. First, the mere fact that National Security Minister Wayne Perinchief and Commissioner of Police Michael DeSilva were sharing the same stage sent out a powerful symbolic messag...

May 1, 2011 Dear Sir, The latest shooting has prompted me to write to you with concern and alarm. The situation where innocents along with the guilty are being gunned down in our island home has to stop. When are the powers to be going to address thi...

Bermuda has now recorded five murders this year, and is at risk of exceeding last year’s total. Details of this latest gun murder will come out in the coming days, but the time is now long overdue when Bermuda as a whole must take a stand against gu...