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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...

A Westgate inmate has spent almost a month on lockdown because of a row over Covid-19 tests, his family has claimed. His mother said the prisoner, who is asthmatic with narrow nasal passages, had reacted badly to the PCR test for the coronavirus a ye...

Several coronavirus infections inside Westgate prison were confirmed tonight by a source at the facility. It was also confirmed yesterday by David Burt, the Premier, who said online that the outbreak of the contagious UK variant of the virus had made...

A social inquiry report was ordered on a man who admitted four charges of attempting to smuggle contraband into prison. Dimitri Swan, 24, pleaded guilty in Magistrates’ Court on Monday to an attempt to take cannabis, cigarette papers, tobacco and can...

Security breaches at Westgate remained a “grave concern” in the latest annual report on the treatment of offenders, the Minister of National Security said yesterday. Renee Ming told the House of Assembly that there continued to be problems with the ...

Work must be done to improve conditions at the island’s prisons, the latest report from the Parole Board has warned. The Parole Board combined report for 2017 to 2019 said the prisons had deteriorated over the past 30 years as maintenance work had be...

Two prison inmates admitted an assault on a prison officer more than two years ago. Mikiel Thomas, 22, pleaded guilty in Magistrates’ Court yesterday to an assault on David Lawes that caused him bodily harm. His co-accused, Josef Smith, 32, admitted ...

The arrest of a woman prison officer at Westgate prison sparked a protest by colleagues outside Hamilton Police Station yesterday. Prison officers walked off the job and gathered outside the Victoria Street police offices in support of their colleagu...

Sanitisation stations have been set up at Westgate jail to help in the battle against Covid-19, the head of the Prison Officers Association said. Timothy Seon added that the Government had committed to the maintenance of items that will help inmates ...

A fire broke out in one of the cells at Westgate prison this morning. The fire service got a call just after 10am, with four trucks and seven firefighters responding from the Port Royal and Hamilton stations. Corrections officers extinguished the bla...

“Unacceptable” conditions at the Westgate men’s prison will be tackled, the Minister of National Security has vowed. Wayne Caines was speaking after inmates at the West End jail highlighted their complaints to him. Mr Caines told the House of Assembl...