June 1: New One Bermuda Alliance senators Craig Cannonier, Michael Dunkley and Kathy Michelmore took their seats in the Upper Chamber. At the same session, Progressive Labour Party Senator Cromwell Shakir called for Bermuda to “evolve” the debate on homosexuality, telling his colleagues: “Outright discrimination in any form in my view is unacceptable.”June 2: An investigation was launched to identify corrupt airport employees in Bermuda and the US after a “significant” quantity of drugs was imported to the Island. US and Bermuda Government security agencies joined forces to successfully crush a bid to bring drugs into Bermuda via Philadelphia International Airport on June 1.June 4: Princess Anne arrived on the Island for a brief visit as part of the Caribbean-Canada Emerging Leaders Dialogue. The Princess Royal spent time in North Hamilton on June 5, attending a briefing on social issues at the Chewstick Foundation.June 6: Almost 100 public school educators lost their jobs as part of a bid by the Ministry of Education to try to slash millions of dollars from its budget.June 7: It was revealed that the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Bermuda charity had to axe its executive director and restructure its staffing levels due to the downturn of the economy taking its toll on charitable giving.June 10: David Cox was found guilty of the murder of Raymond Troy (Yankee) Rawlins by a unanimous Supreme Court jury. The same day, former United Bermuda Party MP Darius Tucker joined the Progressive Labour Party, making the journey across the floor of the House of Assembly. He had served as an independent after quitting the UBP in June 2009.June 11: The Dame Lois Browne Evans police and court building on Court Street was officially opened with a ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by Premier Paula Cox, Deputy Premier Derrick Burgess and Dame Lois’s daughter Tina Evans-Caines. The building had opened for use in April, six months later than planned and at a cost of $26 million more than initially expected.June 13: Ms Cox, Mr Burgess and Economy Minister Kim Wilson led a delegation to Washington, DC to discuss jobs, reinsurance, border control, agriculture, energy and the environment with officials on Capitol Hill.June 14: Financiers David and Antoinette Bolden were cleared of theft and money laundering allegations after a five-week trial at Supreme Court. The jury convicted them of misleading the Bermuda Monetary Authority.June 16: The trial of brothers Ronniko Burchall and Leroy Symons for the gun murder of Shane Minors began in Supreme Court, with the prosecution alleging the killing was one of a “tit for tat” series of shootings between the Parkside and 42 gangs. Both men were acquitted the following month.June 17: The Court of Appeal ruled that child killer Ze Selassie could apply for parole from prison seven years earlier than his original minimum 35-year term for murdering 14-year-old Rhiana Moore. The same day, ten staff at Mount Saint Agnes Academy were struck down by serious food poisoning at an end-of-term celebration.June 20: Three trailblazers who helped shape Bermuda were inducted as the Country’s new national heroes. About 200 people attended the National Heroes Day Induction Ceremony to celebrate the lives of Dr Edgar Fitzgerald Gordon (Mazumbo), Dr Pauulu Kamarakafego (Roosevelt Brown) and Sir Henry James (Jack) Tucker at the Botanical Gardens.June 21: The Sunshine League announced it would have to close its residential foster care programme, due to excessively high costs. The charity said five full-time staff had been made redundant and 13 part-time employees had lost their jobs.June 22: A 50-year-old woman was robbed of about $25,000 in broad daylight as she walked to Butterfield Bank on Reid Street with a restaurant’s takings. The waitress was dragged to the floor by a man wearing a bike helmet as she struggled to keep hold of the duffel bag crammed full of notes.June 24: Paula Cox announced that Government had negotiated a $200 million three-year loan facility with Butterfield Bank. The Finance Minister said the cash would cover an expected $145 million new borrowings, with the remaining $55 million refinancing outstanding short-term debt.June 29: Pharmacists and doctors raised concerns about the possibility of dangerous counterfeit drugs making their way into Bermuda under new rules proposed by Health Minister Zane DeSilva to drive down healthcare costs. The following day, pharmacy inspector Lynanne Bolton issued a statement saying she was not consulted over the order, which would have allowed prescription drugs to be imported from Brazil, India and Israel for the first time.June 30: An advert was published in both of the Island’s newspapers stating that the 47-year-old United Bermuda Party would cease to operate that day. The UBP’s office in the Bermudiana Arcade on Queen Street was packed away as the political party which ruled Bermuda for 30 years until 1998 formally ceased to exist.