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Bermuda will be borrowing ideas from anti-gang initiatives in the United States as authorities try to get to grips with the Island's spiralling gun violence.
Methods championed by the Interagency Anti-Gang Task Force yesterday included Brooklyn's Sav...
DATE: Jun 10, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Three arrests have been made in connection with a brawl in Dockyard’s Snorkel Park that left three people injured.
The fight, between two cruise ship staff and a local group, erupted in the early hours of Tuesday.
Both cruise ship workers were hurt, ...
DATE: Jun 09, 2011
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Crime
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Police have stepped up patrols around Hamilton Bus Terminal as business owners repeatedly complain about gangs of schoolchildren scaring away customers.
The bus depot is now seen as the “fighting meeting spot” as crowds of up to 50 boys and girls fro...
DATE: Jun 09, 2011
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Crime
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A car was extensively damaged after it crashed into a St David’s roundabout this week.
Police attended the collision at the junction of Southside, Cooper’s Island and Pepper Hall Roads around 9.55am on Monday.
“It appears that a car was travelling al...
DATE: Jun 08, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A cruise ship worker had to be treated in hospital after a fight in Dockyard’s Snorkel Park.
Police responded to the confrontation, which broke out around 2.35am yesterday between two cruise ship staff and a number of local men.
Both the cruise ship ...
DATE: Jun 08, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The group Stand Up Bermuda, led by ex-gangster Jahma Gibbons, plans to clean up litter in Pembroke neighbourhoods hit by gang violence.
“Our aim is to show people in the area that other people care about their neighbourhood, and to get some of the gu...
DATE: Jun 08, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A firearm, ammunition and drugs were seized in St George’s Sunday following a police search.
According to a police spokesman, officers were on patrol in the Mullet Bay and Wellington Slip area when their attention was drawn to a group of men acting s...
DATE: Jun 07, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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An internet scam cost a local man thousands of dollars and almost cost him his job.
The victim, who asked not to be named, said he was a phone call away from quitting to take his dream job a job he learned at the last moment did not exist.
“Nothing w...
DATE: Jun 07, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Police are believed to have seized a weapon while making a high-profile series of arrests in St George’s yesterday afternoon.
St George’s West MP Kim Swan said the incident took place in Wellington Slip Road late in the afternoon and was witnessed by...
DATE: Jun 06, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Bermudians travelling to Atlanta are coming back with “degrees in gangsterism”, National Security Minister Wayne Perinchief has said.
And admitting that jailed gangsters cannot be fully isolated in Westgate, Mr Perinchief called for tougher confineme...
DATE: Jun 05, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
