Opposition Leader Grant Gibbons will reshuffle his Shadow Cabinet today, The Royal Gazette has learned.

Dr. Gibbons is due to hold a Press conference this afternoon at United Bermuda Party headquarters where the reshuffle will be announced, sources said.

Chase driver arrested

Police arrested a driver who crashed his car into Police vehicles after driving at high speeds in the early hours of Saturday.

At around 3.25 a.m. Police saw a grey car being driven at high speed in Angle Street which then veered into Court Street narrowly missing one Police car before crashing into two other Police vehicles and a private car.

The front passenger threw down a machete and ran but was caught. The machete was seized and both the driver and two passengers were arrested.

A large crowd gathered and threw objects at Police before dispersing. No officers were injured.

Car thief jailed

A teenage car thief was given a nine-month prison sentence in Magistrates' Court yesterday.

Blair Richardson, 19, currently at Westgate, admitted stealing a silver Suzuki car, valued at $16,000 belonging to Shawnette Swainson, between July 30 and July 31.

He also admitted breaking and entering a home on July 29 and stealing the $12 key of a Suzuki car.

Crown counsel Shakira Dill said that on July 29, Eugene Smith left for Florida with his family on vacation. Ms Swainson also left the Island and parked her car in Mr. Smith's yard and put the keys inside his house.

Richardson was stopped by Police on July 31 while driving Ms Swainson's car.

He was taken to Somerset Police Station where he admitted to taking the keys and using the car.

He later admitted going into the house through the unlocked - but closed - kitchen door and on July 29, driving the stolen car and damaging the car's new bumper to the amount of $750.

Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner then sentenced Richardson to nine months at Westgate.

Cigars stolen

Thirty boxes of Davidoff Dominican Republic cigars were stolen from Buds, Beans and Books sometime between 5 p.m. on Saturday and 9 a.m. on Monday, Police said.

The store, on the corner of Par-la-Ville Road and Front Street, was attended by Police at 10.45 a.m.

In another incident, $70 in cash was taken from a Wreck Road, Sandys home after it was broken into sometime between 4.30 p.m. on Sunday and 7 a.m. on Monday.

Garbage collection

Garbage will be collected today in areas of Pembroke, Smith's Parish and Hamilton Parish after it was not picked up yesterday.

The Ministry of Works and Engineering asked residents to put out their trash and have it ready by 7.30 a.m.

Areas affected include Mill Reach, Point Shares, Fairylands and Spanish Point, Pembroke West, Orchard Grove, Glebe Road and Friswell's Hill, Pembroke East, Tee Street and Brighton Hill Road, Devonshire, Harrington Hundreds Road, Smith's and Paynter's Road, Tucker's Town, Hamilton Parish.

Poetry reading

A Bermuda College English lecturer will be reading from her newly, published poetry book in the student cafeteria Today.

Valerie Carnevale, who will be reading from “Poetry of Salem” at 4 p.m., is the editor of the anthology of poems about the Salem Witch trials which took place in Salem, Massachusetts.

“I thought it was fitting to have the reading around Halloween time,” Ms Carnevale said.

Signed copies of the book will be on sale following the reading. For more information call 236-9000 ext. 4259.