The island’s top police officer is apparently telling two of his subordinates to pay him or he will sue them. The Royal Gazette has published the account (read more here) . Seemingly, Pc Robert Butterfield is one of the officers sent a letter. The Commissioner of Police seemingly wants his two employees to pay him compensation…
22/02/2021: Khamisi Tokunbo was arrested after a car crash in Bermuda 19/01/2019 and charged with failure to provide a breath test. He denied the offence. The case against him was dismissed in October that year after the police officer who arrested him was found to be biased. It was claimed Colin Mill, the arresting officer, did…
Oswin Pereira, now a former officer of the Bermuda Police Service was living a charmed life. Accused of striking a teenage suspect with a baton and turning off his body camera he clung onto his job, until recently. 2019, found not guilty in Magistrates’ Court of unlawfully wounding Mr Grant 2020, The Public Service Commission…
Theft of cars across the island,: The following advice conveys the reality of stealing a vehicle and addresses the mundane, ancient and irrelevant information cited here. Locking your doors and closing windows is common sense and will help prevent theft FROM a vehicle but will have little if any effect upon theft OF the car….
20/01/2021 Ewart Brown, the former Premier of Bermuda, was charged with 13 counts of corruption. five related to agreements with the Lahey Clinic, through which he allegedly received $4.01 million in monthly payments between 2001 and 2010. eight charges related to allegations of corruptly obtaining $350,500 in donations to benefit the Progressive Labour Party and…
Road Traffic Accidents (RTA’s) are on the decline in most civilized countries. European figures can be found here where the numbers are expressed for selected European countries from 2018 to 2019 (in deaths per million population) – the UK (now not a part of Europe) has constant 2018 & 2019 figures of 28 (per million). Bermuda has…
Once asked why the police patrol in pairs, an answers supplied was; you need someone who can read and another able to write. Of a night, you may see them in 3’s; it gets dark. And so we were asked ‘who writes to Commissioner’s messages’ such as his Christmas one (read the last here) –…
Bermudapolice.com wishes to remind everyone of the social distancing rules and that New Year’s Eve parties are subject to these regulations and there must be no more. We respectfully ask that you refrain form such celebrations, for about 12 months. In the meantime, the constabulary is investigating reports of people having fun on the island…
Bermuda’s lip-service approach to the Freedom of Information Act already restricts requests to residents. Whilst most countries providing such legislation extend access to the worldwide population, Bermuda restricts access – possibly because they do not wish competent, safely-distanced individuals to ask probing questions, seek contentious information? Instead, a party making an approach is required to…
Whatever your thoughts about narcotics, surely there must be a common desire to address the issue. Have you considered: With a day to go, Stop The Drug War (STDW) is $2,300 away from fulfilling their end of year donation matching campaign needing to raise another $10,000 to meet crucial 2020 financial goals. Can you contribute now…