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The Commissioner of Police is set to appear as a defendant at Magistrates’ Court next week after a serving officer brought a private prosecution against him.
Sergeant Mark Monk has accused Darrin Simons of refusing to perform his duty as a public off...
DATE: Mar 07, 2023
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Sam Strangeways, Investigations Editor
A pressure group challenging the legitimacy of a committee set up to handle complaints about judges has called on the Governor to convene a “properly constituted tribunal” to hear its grievance.
The Civil Justice Advocacy Group claims Chief Justice N...
DATE: Jun 13, 2022
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Court
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Sam Strangeways, Investigations Editor
A review of court cases presided over by the Chief Justice that involved island banks should be carried out, a pressure group has said.
The Civil Justice Advocacy Group claimed the move was needed after it was revealed in January that Narinder Hargun...
DATE: Mar 02, 2022
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Court
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways, Investigations Editor
Government House has been ordered to release part of a record which raises “questions about the procedures” used by a committee which reviews complaints about judges.
Information Commissioner Gitanjali Gutierrez gave the Office of the Governor until ...
DATE: Dec 16, 2021
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Court
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Sam Strangeways, Investigations Editor
“Scandalous” material should be removed from a statement sworn by a policeman who is suing the Commissioner of Police and the senior magistrate, a court heard this week.
Sergeant Mark Monk and his wife Tricia have asked for a judicial review of a dec...
DATE: Aug 28, 2021
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Court
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways, Investigations Editor
An Australian bitcoin executive facing criminal charges in the United States as part of a Department of Justice-led anti-money laundering inquiry was riding out the storm in Bermuda – until yesterday.
Nine months after he was accused of violating and...
DATE: Jul 02, 2021
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Court
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways, Investigations Editor
A 36-year-old man on trial for sexually assaulting a woman said yesterday the alleged attack never took place.
Crown counsel Javone Rogers told Magistrates’ Court that on May 6, 2018 the man yanked the woman’s pants down, pushed her onto a bed and to...
DATE: Jun 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways, Investigations Editor
The Government has stonewalled questions about why a senior social worker who admitted pushing a child in her care was allowed to remain at work while the incident was investigated – despite a policy that required her to be put on leave.
Kennette Rob...
DATE: Jun 14, 2021
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Court
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways, Investigations Editor
A magistrate has appealed to police to launch an investigation into allegations of misconduct against two officers without “further procrastination or incompetence”.
Khamisi Tokunbo claimed the Bermuda Police Service had used “delay tactics” to avoid...
DATE: May 22, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways, Investigations Editor
A lawyer accused of murdering a young woman appeared in Supreme Court on Thursday.
Kamal Worrell, from Warwick, was not required to enter a plea at the April arraignments hearing to a charge of murdering Chavelle Dillon-Burgess on an unknown date bet...
DATE: Apr 03, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways, Investigations Editor