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In my early years, before I realised I was really a klutz, I wanted to fly fighter jets for a living. Since I lived in Canada, a nation ostensibly at peace with the world, I was unconcerned I might eventually have to actually use the jet to kill peop...

The exceptional financial results enjoyed by reinsurers in 1997 might harbour the seeds of a "disappointing'' year during 1998, rating agency Standard & Poor's (S&P) predicts in its latest report on the industry. Premium growth and pricing levels for...

Butterfield could be looking to expand overseas offices, new president and chief executive officer Calum Johnston suggested yesterday. When asked where the bank might go now it was back on track to improved earnings, Mr. Johnston said expansion in th...

$19.8 billion in 1996 even though worldwide rates kept dropping, according to the latest statistics released yesterday by the Registrar of Companies. The asset base of the 1,470 companies on register in 1996 was about $100 billion, a growth of five p...

pleased he was wrong about the number of hurricanes which he forecast would occur last year. The number of hurricanes in the Atlantic region last year was below normal, and below what was predicted by Mr. Gray, a professor of atmospheric science at C...

first public statements before the media today, shareholders and other interested parties will be keen to hear how he plans to lead the company. The bank had gone through a painful period of restructuring and top executive changes before Calum Johnst...

to increase its market share in the issuing of Certificates of Financial Responsibility (COFR) guarantees. SIGCo President Neil Clemens said since October, 1997 the company has increased its market share by two percentage points, capturing about 57 p...

trained by rote to do things a certain way. During our working lives we go on to perform the necessary tasks using the equipment we have been trained on. We get used to doing things a certain way and fall into habitual behaviour. That's when it becom...

Quantum Communications has just received its telecommunications licence to operate. Finally. Quantum is the company set up to compete with the Bermuda Telephone Co. Ltd. (BTC) by providing a fibre-optic telecommunications service in the City of Hamil...

related companies in the industry. The contributory pension fund was set up in 1982 to provide retirement benefits for Bermuda Industrial Union (BIU) members at five construction companies. Now firms that don't have a collective bargaining agreement ...