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Police warned the public today about a scam e-mail that used the Premier’s name to promote a bogus investment opportunity. A police spokesman said that the e-mail, which called David Burt “Prime Minister Burt”, asked people to invest in a cryptocurre...

Recent child-grooming legislative changes were a huge success for child safeguarding in Bermuda. To read two weeks later, a front-page article, calling for reduced sentencing for someone who sexually abused a 13-year-old child is hard to reconcile. ...

A lawyer has defended controversial comments he made as he appeared for a man who admitted he had sex with a 13-year-old schoolgirl. Charles Richardson, a barrister, hit out after an online post by Stephen Corbishley, the Commissioner of Police, crit...

Dear Sir, The intent of this letter is not to highlight the egregiousness of Charles Richardson’s comments — “Young women seduce older men for sport” — in his attempt to mitigate the sentence of a man who had sex with a girl who was in early adolesce...

In the short, out-of-focus video, Davon McNeal stands in front of a whiteboard fastened to a blue wall and speaks about courage. “Frederick Douglass said,” the sixth-grader tells his classmates, “once said, ‘If there is no struggle, there is no progr...

Dear Sir, Today (July 11, 2020) I read the piece entitled “Young women seduce older men for sport”. I am writing as I believe the headline of the piece, in particular, is inflammatory and actively places young Bermudian women in danger and at risk of...

Dear Sir, I am writing in response to the July 11 article titled “Young women seduce older men for sport”. I would like to address this quote as well as other statements made by the defence lawyer, Charles Richardson, quoted in the article. The clai...

Police have confirmed a firearms incident that took place on Friday night at a Sandys residence. A spokeswoman said: “At about 11.20pm, police responded to a report of what was believed to be gunshots heard in the area of Rockywold Drive in Sandys. ...

The sentencing of a man who admitted having sex with a 13-year-old girl has been pushed back until Wednesday. Chez Rogers, 20, was originally scheduled to be sentenced last Friday for charges of unlawful carnal knowledge and luring. The offences took...

A man who punched a person in the face and broke his nose was fined $2,000 after he was convicted of assault. Chris Furbert Jr, 41, was found guilty at Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday of an attack on Joshua Butler. Magistrate Khamisi Tokunbo heard th...

A man who admitted two sex offences against a 13-year-old schoolgirl is be sentenced at Magistrates’ Court next week. Senior magistrate Juan Wolffe signalled that Khayriek Woolridge, 27, would probably be sentenced to time served after he spent five ...

A lawyer told the Supreme Court that “young women” seduced older men for “sport” as he argued for a lighter sentence for a client who had sex with a 13-year-old schoolgirl. Charles Richardson was speaking yesterday after Chez Rogers, 20, earlier plea...