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Whatever one thinks about David Burt — and these days, it’s mostly positive — he is the Premier of Bermuda. The leader of the country. How is it, then, that someone can be alleged to have threatened to put a hole in his head, and pull him out of his...

A multimillion-dollar lawsuit filed against three former trustees of Port Royal Golf Course by the One Bermuda Alliance government is back on the Supreme Court list. A hearing on the case is scheduled to take place before Puisne Judge Stephen Hellman...

The choice of lawyer Narinder Hargun as the next Chief Justice was assailed in the House of Assembly. Announced last month, the appointment of Mr Hargun to succeed Ian Kawaley in the post drew sharp criticism that same day from David Burt, the Premie...

A woman has denied causing the death of mother-of-two Kerry Hollis. Collisha Burch, 30, pleaded not guilty yesterday to causing death by driving while under the influence of a dangerous drug. Mrs Hollis died in a traffic collision on Middle Road near...

The appointment of Narinder Hargun as successor to Chief Justice Ian Kawaley is “an affront” to the Government, the Premier said last night. David Burt said the Government did not support the appointment and that he had told the Governor, John Rankin...

An American drag car racer has been forced to pay back $70,000 to a Bermudian-based insurance company for misrepresenting the top speed of his vehicle. Mark Woodruff told the insurer his car could not complete a 220-yard course in less than 4.2 secon...

Child protection expert Sheelagh Cooper said yesterday that a man who dropped his infant son out of a first-floor window should have received a stiffer sentence. She was speaking after Anthony Davis was last week given a nine-month suspended sentence...

A man who dropped his seven-month-old son out of a second-storey window escaped jail after a judge gave him a nine- month suspended sentence yesterday. Anthony Davis, 33, will also have to serve two years’ probation. Davis told the court that his act...

A Devonshire man has denied a string of child pornography charges. The man, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, pleaded not guilty at Supreme Court to eight counts of accessing child pornography. The offences are alleged to have taken place ...

Police recovered an imitation firearm after a high-speed police chase on Thursday. The chase began after a report of an incident on Marsh Lane, in Devonshire, at about 9.45pm. The motorcyclist abandoned his bike and ran into the Devonshire Marsh to...

Dear Sir, There are two situations that need to be urgently addressed in Bermuda today. The punishment for selling drugs should be the death penalty. Selling is selling death, the sooner we wake up to the reality of what that sentence will achieve, t...

A man caught by police asleep on his motorcycle has lost an appeal against conviction and a $3,500 fine for having care and control of a vehicle while impaired. Mark Wilson argued that the police who arrested him had lied under oath, but the Supreme ...