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A 29-year-old woman has been remanded after being charged with importing cocaine to Bermuda. Alphia Anita Rollins pleaded not guilty to charges of importing the controlled drug cocaine and possessing cocaine in St George’s with intent to supply. Both...

June 24, 2013 Dear Sir, I have exhausted all lines of communication with the Ministry of Public Safety. I have requested information on my next steps to obtain what I have asked for, the legal use of cannabis for the treatment of my anxiety and insom...

A 31-year-old found with cannabis during a police stop was yesterday fined. Magistrates’ Court heard that at around 1.45pm on March 1, officers pulled over a motorcycle on Frog Lane on an unrelated traffic matter. Once the vehicle stopped the pillion...

A Smith’s man yesterday admitted cultivating cannabis after eight seedlings were found on his property. Makki Talbot Foote, 27, also admitted possessing 13.47g of cannabis, found in a plastic container, but denied possessing drug equipment, specifica...

A Smith’s man caught with heroin on Court Street told Magistrates’ Court he was struggling to overcome addiction. Neiko Burchall admitted to possessing 0.02g of diamorphine on January 30. The court heard that police conducting a stop and search found...

A man who fled the Island ten years ago after being charged with dealing crack cocaine has been deported from the US and brought before Magistrates’ Court. Roger Wainwright, 53, originally of Southampton, was arrested on Thursday night after his flig...

A Pembroke woman accused of smuggling drugs worth nearly $8,000 has appeared in Magistrates’ Court. Chesere Smith, 27, of Happy Valley Road, denied conspiring in Bermuda and elsewhere to import cannabis and cannabis resin. The charges run from a date...

April 22, 2013 Dear Sir, Dear Michael Dunkley, Minister for Public Safety. I Willard Fox, a concerned citizen, write to you about some of the young people who are holding this Island hostage through crime and fear. I watch the nightly news and I see ...

Around 800 people have signed an online petition supporting the legalisation of cannabis. The site ‘Legalize Marijuana in Bermuda’ was set up four weeks ago on the social site Facebook, where as of yesterday it had garnered just under 1,000 “likes”. ...

Readers write, Mr Acting Editor, and a few of them had a lot to say about last weeks’ column about the debate over legalisation of cannabis. Here are excerpts from some of the comments, all of which can be found on www.royalgazette.com LIVING IN PARA...