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A British court has ordered the confiscation of thousands of dollars in drug-dealing profits from two sons of a Bermuda Member of Parliament. Marcus Weeks and Dalji Waldron — the sons of Progressive Labour Party backbencher Michael Weeks — were jaile...

In response to the Proposed Cannabis (Licensing and Regulation) Act 2020, the Inter-Agency Committee for Children and Families, a network of social and human service providers and non-profit organisations, reached out to its membership to solicit fee...

A proposed restriction on cannabis cultivation sites to outside a half-mile exclusion zone around churches and schools may be dropped, the Government signalled tonight. The announcement came after officials launched an online public consultation on d...

The legalisation of cannabis in Bermuda will not threaten its privileged United States Customs pre-clearance system at the airport, the US Consul-General has promised. But Constance Dierman warned that travel restrictions to the US for people with ca...

Liberalising Bermuda’s cannabis laws is overdue. This is undeniable in a society — and a world — awakening to an inflection point in discussions about systemic racialised disparities and inequities within institutions, laws and policies. Bermuda’s r...

A lawyer called proposals to reform cannabis legislation “a dog’s breakfast” that required a significant rewrite. Peter Sanderson, a human rights lawyer, said yesterday that a move away from criminalisation was needed, but that the draft legislation ...

Bermudians will get economic opportunities from the legalisation of cannabis, the Attorney-General said. Kathy Lynn Simmons said proposed new legislation — released for consultation this week after being redrafted by the Government — put more focus o...

Two people were arrested after a $7.5 million cannabis seizure, it was revealed yesterday. Detective Superintendent Nicholas Pedro, in charge of the crime division, said: “While we are aware of the legislative agenda towards decriminalisation of can...

Draft legislation for the legalisation of cannabis is to be put out for public consultation, the Attorney-General said last night. Kathy Lynn Simmons unveiled proposals for medical and recreational cannabis use in the Senate last December and the vi...

A cruise ship passenger caught with $240,000 worth of drugs on a Bermuda-bound vessel was jailed for more than two years yesterday. Margil Mireles, 32, was sentenced to 27 months in the Supreme Court for his involvement in a plot to bring cannabis, l...

The threshold for the importation of medical cannabis has rocketed to 2,000 grams a year from an annual limit of just one gram per year. A spokeswoman for the health ministry said the Government was “processing an application for a commercial importe...

Two prison officers were arrested after an alleged attempt to smuggle illegal substances into the Prison Farm, it was revealed tonight. Wayne Caines, the national security minister, revealed the news of the Wednesday incident at a press conference to...