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Bermuda’s thin blue line has to police itself, the national security minister has said. Wayne Caines told police they must hold each other accountable in the wake of a 2½-year sentence given to an officer for corruption. Mr Caines praised the hard wo...

A former police officer was jailed for 2½ years yesterday for dumping more than 60 traffic tickets for his own profit. Pc Kyle Wheatley, 34, resigned from the Bermuda Police Service on Monday after he pleaded guilty in the Supreme Court to conspiracy...

Two former executives of collapsed oil company Afren were sentenced to a combined total of 30 years in prison yesterday for fraud and money-laundering offences after they received millions of dollars in secret payments through a Bermudian-based entit...

Police are investigating three cases under a new anti-corruption law. The inquiries fall under the Bribery Act 2016, which came into effect last year. The probes were disclosed after a public access to information request to the Bermuda Police Servic...

The Commissioner of Corrections has been seconded to serve as project manager for the National Anti-Money Laundering Committee. The Ministry of National Security said Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Lamb would hold the new post for nine months. Assistant C...

Corruption is a complex social, political and economic phenomenon that affects all countries, so said in November 2017 by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Action against Corruption and Economic Crime. Bermuda is not yet a signatory to the...

One of the island’s top police officers has said that kickbacks and bribery appear to be a problem in Bermuda. Nicholas Pedro, of the Organised and Economic Crime Department, said reports in recent years suggested corruption was more prevalent than ...

History was made in a Seoul court yesterday when Jay Y. Lee, scion of the family that founded the giant Samsung conglomerate, was convicted on bribery and embezzlement charges, and sentenced to five years in prison. In theory, the verdict should send...

More than half of people believe the investigations into Ewart Brown and the Progressive Labour Party are politically motivated, according to a new poll commissioned by The Royal Gazette. The vast majority of those think the One Bermuda Alliance has ...

I read with interest Bryant Trew’s February 24 column, “Good governance: actions speak louder than words”, in which he criticises the Progressive Labour Party for proclaiming that it is the party of transparency yet it repeatedly fails to support tra...

Opposition MP Zane DeSilva and other former trustees of the Port Royal Golf Course are being sued by the Government over a taxpayer-funded refurbishment project which went $20 million over budget. Attorney-General Trevor Moniz alleged in a statement ...

A “large-scale fraud and corruption inquiry” is nearing completion, according to an affidavit from Deputy Police Commissioner Paul Wright. In a statement dated last August, Mr Wright said the probe was in “a critical phase” and expressed concern it c...