The Bermuda Police, unable to find a suitably qualified Commissioner from within its own ranks, has turned to the UK and appointed an acting Area Commander from a constabulary whose effectiveness at recording reported crime was graded ‘inadequate’ by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services – extract below – full report…
05/0218 – The UK’s Evening Standard reports upon profits from opioid painkillers manufactured in Cambridge having its ‘nerve center’ in Bermuda at Mundipharma House. Par La Ville Place, Hamilton – said to be the nerve centre of the Sacklers’ tax avoidance strategy for the past 25 years. To read more, click here.
Whilst the Bermuda Road Safety Council attend the launch of car dealer’s Auto Solutions’ pledge wall, which customers are invited to sign to promise that they will drive responsibly, the police demonstrate their own approach to highlighting the problems of driving on Bermuda’s road by steering off one, into a hedge. It appears Bermuda’s road…
‘The Paradise Papers reveal something of interest to every reader’*. The names associated with the Paradise Papers are available to download You can download a raw copy of the database – click here.** A cursory examination revealed the following names: Michael DeSilva – database node id: 80056439. Coincidentally (?) this is the name of Bermuda’s Commissioner…
Rather than acquire experienced staff trained in professional constabularies overseas, Bermuda elects to use home-grown recruits for basic tasks: Constable 2521 Jermari Belboda Constable 2522 Daischon Chin Constable 2523 Jah-Zico Douglas Constable 2524 George Edmead Constable 2525 Jonathan Flood Constable 2526 Kori Jackman Constable 2527 Nathan Lawrence Constable 2529 Thomas Senior Constable 2530 Tyler Simons…
EU Urged To Name European States In Tax Haven ‘Blacklist’ – the list is expected to be published today, December 5. Bermuda is one of the Thirty-five countries that should be named and shamed on the European Union’s upcoming list of countries that facilitate tax avoidance and evasion, according to a new report by non-profit…
A former teacher accused of sexually assaulting a Bermuda student is fighting his extradition back to Bermuda from the United States citing a “negligent, even indifferent delay” on the part of Bermuda authorities. 10 years ago, the accused was teaching at a Bermuda high school when he was alleged to have assaulted a female student….
Does Bermuda have one of the highest road-death by head of population in the world and of these, just how many result from the involvement of the police – see ‘collisions‘. Possibly the constabulary needs to consider their purpose … in 1829 the first commissioner of the Metropolitan Police in London, Sir Richard Mayne, said…
The “unintended consequences” of cliché need to be understood by the Bermuda Police ‘Service’; treating the public like children and failing to grasp the impact of our modern environment is only likely to reinforce a perception the constabulary remains without modern thinking or understanding. An explanation of the unintended consequences of circulating video were woefully…
Whilst many countries recognize the right to informational privacy, or the right to protect their personal information, as an important human right and have developed laws to protect individuals’ personal information, Bermuda remains slow to put such legislation in place. Bermuda’s Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA) received Royal Assent on July 27, 2016, Ministerial statement and Personal Information Protection Act…