“They don’t think, they don’t have a conscience. They knew he would be coming. They laid in wait for him and they shot him. They’re evil, just thugs” The grieving aunt of 26-year-old gun victim Jahmiko LeShore speaks of those who lay in wait for her nephew on March 1. Mr LeShore, murdered as he arrived at his pregnant girlfriend’s Devonshire home, was the second claimed by shootings in 2011.“God told her to bring me back” Kathy Landy tells how 14-year-old Jaqueena Harvey saved her life. The teenager received a Bermuda Bravery Award for stepping in to help as the bus driver choked on an object stuck in her throat.“We got the hell out of there.” former Bermuda College student Alfa Ming describes March 11 in Japan, when a devastating earthquake and tsunami cripple the country.“This Minister is someone who failure is not an option for. I know he will find some way to assist our community in the eastern area” St David’s MP Lovita Foggo speaks out as Transport Minister Terry Lister, beleaguered by budget cuts, announces Government is scaling back the East End’s ferry service.“These have been overlooked for nine years. They are being brought forward now. I don’t hold out much hope of getting a real explanation … there is no explanation” Shadow Finance Minister Bob Richards lambastes Government for tabling $160 million in “supplementary estimates” for non-budgeted spending going back to 2002. The overspends are approved by the House of Assembly.“I am pleased someone got convicted. I’m tired of it … Kumi was my close friend, and a person to look to for advice. He watched me grow up with his brother and other friends who have been murdered” A friend of murder victim Kumi Harford speaks in the wake of the conviction of Antonio Myers for the killing.“Mr Turner, you haven’t lost anything” a Civil Servant told a relieved war vet Henry Turner after a mix-up led to his believing that he’d lost his pension. Mr Turner was born in England and raised in Bermuda and served in the Royal Navy in the Second World War.“I just try to pursue academics because it’s enjoyable to know as much as possible about the world we live in and interesting to learn how things work’ Mariangela Bucci, Outstanding Teen of 2011“HM Customs and the Bermuda Police Service worked very closely with the US Drug Enforcement Agency in a lengthy investigation leading up to the rest of Mr (Dennis) Pamplin ... We are very happy to have been instrumental in preventing such a significant quantity of illegal drugs from being imported and distributed on the streets of Bermuda” BPS Superintendent Andrew Boyce after the former husband of MP Patricia Gordon Pamplin was imprisoned in his native US for three-and-a-half years.“We have listened. Tucker’s Point has listened. Part of the compromise is we are not going to build on that site. And yet the Opposition is going to use that to say my Government is deceiving the public’ MP Marc Bean as The House of Assembly approves a revised Tucker’s Point SDO“While not completely removing the possibility, these new approaches certainly minimise the likelihood of flights having to divert somewhere to the East Coast (of the US) when the Island is experiencing severe weather conditions’ then-Transport Minister Terry Lister as Bermuda became one of the first countries in the Western Hemisphere to instal a GPS based approach system to LF Wade International airport.