an emergency stop in Bermuda.

The officer is recovering after having his appendix removed at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital.

Mr. V. Akulish was on the board the Cyprus-flagged Kapitan Pomerants .

The vessel stopped at the Island on Saturday morning to drop the officer off, before continuing to Philadelphia.

When the emergency occurred, the ship was 1000 miles east of the Island, and while on board the officer was treated with medical supplies. The International Radio Medical Service in Rome (CIRM Roma) and US Coastguard also gave medical advice over the radio.

DRINK ARRESTS CTS The New Year had, by last night, seen a total of just two impaired-driving arrests.

The first arrest occurred in the early hours of Sunday morning after an accident in Laurel Lane in Sandys Parish. The driver, a 55-year-old Sandys man, allegedly lost control of his car and struck a garden wall. He failed an alco-analyser test.

Early on Monday morning, the second arrest was made on Middle Road in Warwick.

A 50-year-old man was stopped by Police, refused to give a sample of breath for a analysis, and then violently resisted arrest.

CASH SNATCH CRM Two break-ins were reported to Police over the weekend. The first happened overnight on New Year's Eve in a Hamilton Parish home where thieves made off with $700 in cash. And in the early hours of Saturday morning, a Pembroke guest house was broken into. Reported missing were $800 in cash taken from a man's blazer, and $40 from a woman's handbag.

ARMED ROBBERY CRM Police are investigating a robbery from a Hamilton nightclub after a man armed with a knife escaped with $400. The theft occurred in the early hours of Monday morning.

And detectives were also called to Warwick Gas Station yesterday morning to investigate a complaint of malicious damage. A trash barrel had been thrown through the plate glass window of the South Road property.