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A Canadian man pleaded guilty to six charges of bank fraud in Magistrates’ Court yesterday. Christopher McMeel, 28, was accused of possessing seven fake debit cards and a magnetic card strip reader intended to create fake debit cards. McMeel, from Mo...

A man who admitted breaking into a home was sent to the Drug Treatment Court yesterday. Magistrates’ Court heard that Leon Fough, 45, was caught after police were alerted to a burglary at a house in Ord Road, Warwick, last Friday. Police found Fough,...

Bermuda’s top police officer has said sex between teachers or other people in positions of trust and children in their care should be a crime, even if the young person is over the age of consent. Commissioner of Police Stephen Corbishley added outlaw...

A Salvation Army spokesman said that homelessness was a “critical issue” after a homeless man broke into a Hamilton church for food. The spokesman said that church break-ins by homeless individuals were done out of desperation. He added that while th...

Three teenage boys were arrested after a fight near Hamilton bus terminal. The trio, aged 15, 17 and 18, were released on bail pending further inquiries after the incident yesterday at about 4.40pm. Police received information that one of the people ...

Dwayne Caines, the City of Hamilton chief operating officer, thanked the community this morning after a man who stole his bike returned the vehicle. Mr Caines posted on Facebook that the man, whose picture was made public in connection with the theft...

A 28-year-old man has pleaded not guilty to four sex assaults on a girl aged under 14. The man, from Smith’s, is alleged to have committed the offences on April 8 and 9 in Devonshire. The defendant, who cannot be named for legal reasons, appeared in ...

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results. This quote from Albert Einstein speaks to the matter of how most countries have spent many decades attempting to address the matter of substance abuse. November 11 ...

A man who attempted to escape from court after he was remanded in custody on a string of charges was sentenced to a total of a year and eight months in jail yesterday. Howard Ascento, 31, pleaded guilty in Magistrates’ Court to an escape from lawful ...

The government body set up to compensate victims of crime failed to fulfil a “basic obligation” to respond properly to a public access to information request, according to a decision issued yesterday by Information Commissioner Gitanjali Gutierrez. T...

Police made a fresh appeal for witnesses to an alleged assault on an off-duty police officer today. A Bermuda Police Service spokesman said there had been “on social media, a lot of comment from individuals identifying themselves as eyewitnesses” to ...

The organisation responsible for handling allegations of teacher misconduct does not have the resources to carry out its statutory duties, according to its chairman. Crenstant Williams told The Royal Gazette that though the law governing the Bermuda ...