October 3: Self-employed businessman Victor Roberts, 46, appeared in Supreme Court, charged with importing $10 million worth of drugs and 200 rounds of live ammunition.October 5: A Government Parks worker is shot at while working near the Paget roundabout by two men riding on a motorcycle. Three shots were fired. A day later, a Pembroke man in his 20s was arrested in connection with the incident.October 5: Schizophrenic Shiloh Payne is confined to a mental hospital for an indefinite period after stabbing a neighbour in an unprovoked attack.October 8: Shayne Adderley, 21, became the fifth road fatality of the year following an early-morning collision with a taxi on Middle Road, Southampton.October 11: A woman had a lucky escape when a fire destroyed her Smith’s apartment.October 12: Former Cabinet Minister David Burch is selected to represent the Progressive Labour Party in Warwick North Central at the next General Election.October 12: A Supreme Court jury clears Andre Curtis of charges of stealing nearly $130,000 from the public purse.October 13: Trucker Richard Foggo is found guilty of threatening to kill Health Minister Zane DeSilva and is given a six-month conditional discharge.October 14: Bermuda’s population is officially put at 71,258, according to 2010 Census data.October 17: A human skeleton, believed to have been buried more than 125 years ago, is found by a child playing on Hen Island in St George’s.October 19: Premier Paula Cox says employment is her administration’s main priority, while speaking at a Progressive Labour Party rally.October 20: Two alleged Parkside gang members, Jahkiel Samuels and Prince Edness, were granted early release from prison after the Parole Board wasn’t told of their gang ties.October 25: An American contract worker becomes Bermuda’s sixth road fatality after his rental bike collided with a wall and a utility pole on South Road, Devonshire.October 25: Former national team footballer Dennis Zuill is released from a New York prison after being sentenced to “time served” in relation to a plot to distribute cannabis and cocaine worth millions.October 25: Former Progressive Labour Party MP Cecil Clark dies in Guyana, age 78.October 27: The surviving four of Bermuda’s quintuplets Makiri, Raziya, Dakarai and Marjani Smith celebrate their 20th birthday.October 27: Pembroke resident Doris Corbin reaches an even more significant milestone ... 100 years.October 27: Auditor General Heather Matthews wants civil servants held accountable for wasting taxpayers’ money.October 27: Digicel’s controversial new long distance service plan is halted in the courts by Puisne Judge Ian Kawaley.October 27: Police confirm that nine arrests were made in connection with a spate of firearms incidents in October.October 28: Marico Bassett, 21, is found guilty of attempted murder of Randy Lightbourne in the Charing Cross Tavern parking lot.October 30: UK Labour Party MP David Lammy is the guest speaker at the Progressive Labour Party annual conference. He urges the PLP to protect its agenda from political rivals.October 28: Teenager Malcolm Outerbridge is stabbed to death on the Railway Trail near his Warwick home. Two people were arrested and a 15-year-old has been charged with the murder.