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It has been a year since 22-year-old Jason Smith was fatally shot in Pembroke — but his friends say they miss him just as much as ever.
A group of them will hold a memorial for the Saltus graduate and Regiment lance corporal at his graveside at St Jo...
DATE: May 01, 2012
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Crime
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Prosecutors have decided not to charge two men accused of abusing and exploiting a vulnerable old woman in her own home.
Police spent years investigating allegations against the pair but didn’t share their findings with the Department of Public Prose...
DATE: Feb 24, 2012
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Crime
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Police arrested four people and seized “significant quantities” of illegal drugs during two raids.
Officers from the Public Protection Department of the Bermuda Police Service executed a search warrant at a Nantucket Lane, Smith’s property, on Thursd...
DATE: Feb 21, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
The young man sexually assaulted by his former boss at Bermuda Housing Corporation said yesterday he hoped his attacker would receive the “maximum sentence the courts are willing to give out”.
Mr X, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was molested...
DATE: Feb 07, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Detectives are hunting for two men who broke into a Pembroke home, one wielding what appeared to be a gun.
Police said the burglary happened shortly before 9.40pm on Sunday, when the householders were in the Friswells Lane property.
A police spokesma...
DATE: Jan 18, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
National Security Minister Wayne Perinchief said yesterday he and international business were “kissing and making up” after he called on the corporate community to provide more money to tackle gun crime.
Mr Perinchief claimed IB had an “obligation, n...
DATE: Dec 24, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Bermuda should be able to roll out its own Operation CeaseFire by April or May and may even have a national summit on gangs in 2012, National Security Minister Wayne Perinchief has revealed.
He told The Royal Gazette he was convinced his Ministry and...
DATE: Dec 23, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
The UK would have stepped in and provided the funds to tackle gun violence in Bermuda if 16 white men had been shot dead since May 2009, according to National Security Minister Wayne Perinchief.
Mr Perinchief made the remark during an interview with ...
DATE: Dec 23, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Violent offenders are being granted early release from prison by the Parole Board without any police assessment of their “criminal threat to the community”.
The latest convict to leave jail after serving the minimum time possible is Cervio Cox, who w...
DATE: Dec 09, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Bermuda’s per capita murder rate has skyrocketed to almost double the global average in 2011.
Eight people have been violently killed so far this year, giving the Island a rate of 12.5 murders per 100,000 people.
That compares to a world average of 6...
DATE: Nov 21, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
