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.
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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…
26/10/2017: The Royal Gazette reported about a ‘data breach’ in May 2016, about which the police had not been informed. The report can be found here. A police spokesman confirmed yesterday that the service had not received a complaint about a cyberattack at the firm. Appleby are reported to have said: “Appleby has thoroughly and…
It is reported that, during a weapons check 15/09/2024, a BPS armed officer has accidentally discharged his weapon giving rise to an investigation (read more here). Apparently no one was injured and no damage was caused to property This occurring just weeks after the reports of the first time BPS officers had fired upon suspects…
November 2017 – island’s 3rd shooting death this year, 5th Murder. A murder investigation has been launched after 30-year-old Morlan Steede was shot dead in Pembroke on Friday evening in a ride-by incident on One Way Deepdale at about 9.40pm. full story. Mr Steede is believed to have lived in Hamliton, Bermuda being from Harbour View, Saint Andrew,…
13/12/204 – a Bermuda Police Service (BPS) superintendent has been fired for inappropriate conduct. The identity of the officer has yet to be disclosed but the lack of people holding such a rank is few and it will likely not be long before this detail is revealed. The ‘poor conduct’ description covers a multitude. Whilst…
A former Warwick Academy (England) teacher Matthew McGowan, 38, was banned from teaching in Britain after it was considered he had an “inappropriate relationship” with a pupil at the private girls’ boarding school where he was a drama teacher. In September 2019, Mr McGowan joined the Bermuda police as a trainee but was removed from…