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The deportation of a convicted sex offender on the Governor’s orders was welcomed by a charity leader. Tina Laws, the executive director of the Women’s Resource Centre, said on Sunday she hoped that the decision, announced in court last week, would g...

A convicted sex offender will be deported from Bermuda back to his homeland of Jamaica on the Governor’s orders, a court heard yesterday. Brittonie Taylor, 40, was granted a temporary reprieve in October after his lawyer Victoria Greening argued that...

Keeva Joell-Benjamin has become Bermuda’s first female Commissioner of Corrections. The appointment of the 30-year veteran of the prison service became effective on January 17, it was announced. She had held the position in an acting capacity since 2...

Making cannabis and other controlled drugs available on prescription could stop users turning to crime to feed their addictions, Hamilton’s Mayor has said. Charles Gosling, speaking in a personal capacity, insisted a much more radical approach to tac...

Pupils and prisoners have been helped by a community group that launched campaigns to provide computers and books. The Grateful Bread rallied supporters, who paid for 20 Chromebooks for children and donated boxes of books to Westgate inmates. The gro...

A hunt has been launched for a new head of the prison service. The Commissioner of Corrections post was advertised three and a half years after Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Lamb, the last permanent commissioner, was seconded to the National Anti-Money ...

Prisoner numbers have been slashed by more than 50 per cent over the last 11 years, The Royal Gazette can reveal. Senior Magistrate Juan Wolffe said that locking up offenders was the “last option” and that community-based sentences meant debts to soc...

More than 30 services and programmes are offered to help people in the island’s prison system, a Government spokeswoman said. She added that a refusal to take part in some core courses could affect release dates and parole chances. The Department of ...

Visitors to Westgate will require a Covid-19 SafeKey in order to enter the facility in a move to protect staff and inmates from the virus. A spokesperson for the department of corrections said, “For the most part, our existing visitation policy will ...

An investigation has been launched at the Westgate Correctional Facility after the sudden death of an inmate. A spokeswoman for the Ministry of National Security confirmed the death early yesterday afternoon. The spokeswoman said: “The incident is cu...

Complaints linked to Covid-19 accounted for a significant portion of the Ombudsman for Bermuda’s caseload last year, according to the office’s 2020 annual report. They ranged from emergency unemployment benefits for people put out of work to pandemic...

Prison officials have stonewalled questions on claims that a Westgate inmate has been in isolation for a month after he refused to take a coronavirus PCR nasal test on medical grounds. The inmate’s mother claimed the man could have been exposed to C...