24-year-old Roger Pitcher dies as a result of injuries sustained in a road traffic accident, making him the 12th person to die on Bermuda's roads this year.

American Teketa Thompkins is convicted of stealing $1.4 million from the Bermuda Government after a federal court in New York City court heard how she and fiance Bermudian Harrison Isaac Jr. had lived the high life on the stolen money.

The Opposition United Bermuda Party renews its calls for a code of conduct to govern politician's behaviour following the Premier's use of the term 'racist dog' in a heated exchange in the House of Assembly with UBP MP Grant Gibbons.

The traffic congestion on Bermuda's roads returned to the headlines with news that Premier and Transport Minister Dr. Ewart Brown's new Cabinet would soon discuss a number of new ideas to reduce the number of vehicles on our roads.

Former Detective Chief Inspector Stuart Crockwell is found not guilty of stealing more than $35,000 from his business partner.

Health Minister Nelson Bascome reveals that he would prefer to build the new hospital on its current site in Paget.

Bermudian Linda Parker is names as the new head of the Bermuda High School for Girls.

A fundraising drive is launched to raise thousands of dollars to help pay for the medical experiences of Lori Mello, 24 who is battling Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma. By the end of the month, some $200,000 was believed to have been raised.

The Public Accounts Committee says the president of the Bermuda College should pay back thousands of taxpayers' dollars spent on his utility bills and membership at an exclusive member's club.

The executive chef at the Elbow Beach Hotel who allegedly made a comment about putting arsenic into Premier Ewart Brown's meal during a Cabinet office end-of-year dinner resigns from the Paget hotel.

Education Minister Randolph Horton announces that Government spent $4 million dollars ridding CedarBridge Academy of high levels of dangerous mould and that the school would reopen in January, 2007.

A flurry of Human Rights Commission reports revealed that some employers are still discriminating on the basis of race and gender, with pregnant women being particularly vulnerable.

It is revealed that developers hope to build a major luxury hotel at the Southlands property in Warwick, but the proposal ? backed by the same consortium that built the world's first self-styled seven star hotel in Dubai, will need special development orders, including the "realignment" of South Shore Road, and a land preservation agreement will have to be overturned. This brings to three the number of major new hotel developments planned. Earlier in the month, an SDO was approved for a nine-storey Ritz Carlton Hotel on the Par-la-Ville car park while a new developer emerged for the former Ritz Carlton site on South Shore Road, Warwick ? adjacent to the Southlands property.

Bermuda recorded its 13th road death of the year yesterday when a 29-year-old Devonshire man was killed on South Shore Road, Devonshire.

John Deuss was released from custody by a Dutch court.