6586 results returned for search: "" category ("Court" AND "News")
A speciality court could be introduced to focus on drink drivers.
Senior magistrate Juan Wolffe said he wants to tackle Bermuda’s crippling culture of drink driving and break the cycle of repeat offending.
It would mean offenders go through intense c...
DATE: Feb 05, 2018
|
CATEGORY:
Court
|
AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A motorcyclist was banned from driving for three years and fined $3,100 after he led police on a dangerous high-speed chase.
John Glasgow was flagged down by officers in Southampton on September 28 last year after he was caught travelling at 57km/h.
...
DATE: Feb 05, 2018
|
CATEGORY:
Court
|
A 20-year-old man has denied stabbing a man in a robbery attempt.
Lawrence Smith is alleged to have stabbed John Lynch-Wade on December 19 last year in the Lighthouse Road area of Southampton.
Mr Smith is accused of wounding Mr Lynch-Wade with intent...
DATE: Feb 02, 2018
|
CATEGORY:
Court
|
A Pembroke woman has denied trying to import more than $45,000 worth of cannabis and cannabis resin into the island.
Sheneal Harris is accused of trying to smuggle the drugs into Bermuda on May 18 last year.
She also faces a further two charges of po...
DATE: Feb 02, 2018
|
CATEGORY:
Court
|
Two men charged in connection with a multimillion-dollar drugs supply network appeared in Magistrates’ Court yesterday.
Jamal Robinson and Isiah Ejiikeme face a string of drugs charges related to a police seizure in Warwick on May 11 last year.
Mr Ro...
DATE: Feb 02, 2018
|
CATEGORY:
Court
|
Security at the Supreme Court must be improved, Puisne Judge Charles-Etta Simmons has said.
“The physical security of the building, and of the judges in particular, is conspicuous by its absence,” Ms Justice Simmons said.
“The House of Assembly has ...
DATE: Feb 01, 2018
|
CATEGORY:
Court
|
AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A Welsh accountant has pleaded guilty to laundering almost $1.8 million stolen from the Bermuda Government.
Jeffrey Bevan, 50, from Cwmbran, admitted transferring the money into his own bank account, using it to buy homes, a Mercedes car and fund his...
DATE: Jan 31, 2018
|
CATEGORY:
Court
|
AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A 55-year-old woman who killed a young man after she crashed into the back of his motorbike was jailed yesterday for three months.
Margaret DeSilva accidentally pushed down on the accelerator at the same time as the brake pedal after hitting Jokeem R...
DATE: Jan 31, 2018
|
CATEGORY:
Court
|
A Canadian airline passenger was fined $1,000 yesterday after he admitted drunken and disruptive behaviour that forced his flight to divert to Bermuda.
Magistrates’ Court heard Joseph Matrundola, 60, demanded alcohol, shouted and swore and had to be...
DATE: Jan 30, 2018
|
CATEGORY:
Court
|
A generation of “lost boys” need to be saved, senior magistrate Juan Wolffe warned on Friday.
Mr Wolffe said abuse of drugs and alcohol by young Bermudians had created a crisis.
He added: “The vast majority of male teenagers who find themselves in Ma...
DATE: Jan 30, 2018
|
CATEGORY:
Court
|
AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes