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A petition has been launched calling for corruption charges against Ewart Brown, the former Premier, to be dropped.
Dr Brown, who was Premier between 2006 and 2010, faces 13 counts of corruption, including five related to agreements with the Lahey Cl...
DATE: Jan 27, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A judge has ruled in favour of a lawyer who sued The Royal Gazette after it reported on the work he did in Bermuda for an American billionaire accused of tax evasion.
Puisne Judge Larry Mussenden ordered the newspaper not to publish anything containe...
DATE: Jan 26, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways, Investigations Editor
A man who won $1.9 million in damages from the Bermuda Hospitals Board after his wife died of cancer has been jailed in Britain for drug offences.
Kemar Maybury, who now lives in Brighton, was arrested in March 2020 – less than two months after a cou...
DATE: Jan 25, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A bank has warned customers of an increase in scams designed to trick people into revealing confidential information or transferring cash.
The caution from HSBC Bermuda came after police revealed last December that people had been swindled out of alm...
DATE: Jan 25, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A total of nine buses needed repairs after thieves raided their cash boxes as they were parked in a depot at Dockyard at the weekend.
Lawrence Scott, the transport minister, yesterday condemned the “selfish and unfortunate” theft, which had put extra...
DATE: Jan 25, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Two people were arrested after police found a stolen motorcycle at the scene of a weekend crash.
The rider and passenger fled the scene of a two-vehicle collision at about 9.15am on Sunday on South Road, just west of the junction with Turk’s Head Lan...
DATE: Jan 24, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Minister of National Security condemned Thursday’s shooting which left a 26-year-old man with serious gunshot wounds.
Renee Ming said: “We must break this senseless cycle of violence. I again urge members of the public to assist the police. If yo...
DATE: Jan 22, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Ewart Brown, a former Premier, said today that his image is being falsely used to promote an online scam posted on Facebook.
Dr Brown said that an image bearing his likeness was used in an advert to promote a product. He did not say what the product ...
DATE: Jan 21, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A 26-year-old man was rushed to hospital last night after he was shot several times.
A senior police officer at the scene told The Royal Gazette that there had been a firearms incident and that a man had been taken to the King Edward VII Memorial Hos...
DATE: Jan 21, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
A man has been arrested after threats were made towards the Premier on social media, police said today.
A police spokeswoman said the 34-year-old man was detained after “menacing comments” were made during a live interview involving David Burt.
The m...
DATE: Jan 20, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan