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Two firms with a Bermuda presence are to merge in an $8.7 billion deal. Insurance and reinsurance broker Willis Group Holdings is to join forces in an all-stock transaction with professional services firm Towers Watson to add consulting operations an...

Professional services firm Deloitte has awarded a two-year scholarship worth up to $40,000 as part of its effort to attract young Bermudians into business. The winner of the annual award for this year is Chelsea Smith, who is studying for a Bachelor ...

Digicel is on the move — to a former clothing store. The firm — which already has a store on Hamilton’s Church Street — is set to move into the former Makin’ Waves store on the same street. The storefront has already been painted in Digicel’s corpora...

Power firm Belco has given Government’s new electricity sector policy its cautious backing. The news came after Government on Friday said it wanted high-quality, low cost power services — as well as methods that were kind to the environment, secure a...

The Baltic republic of Latvia has pulled Bermuda off its blacklist of uncooperative tax jurisdictions supplied to the European Commission. And the move means the Island has dropped below the ten-nation threshold for inclusion on the EU hitlist — lead...

A Bermudian landscape architect has signed up with the Island-based arm of an international firm. Jennifer Davidson switched from a career in business and banking to study landscape architecture at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. She has...

Legal firm Pettingill & Co has hired a new lawyer to head its family law department. English barrister Katie Richards, who has been practice for 14 years, worked in the UK in the area of family law before moving to Bermuda in 2009. A spokesman for th...

Bermuda has to attract new businesses to the Island to diversify its economy, the Chamber of Commerce said yesterday. Nathan Kowalski, co-chairman of the Chamber’s economics committee, said a rash of mergers and takeovers in the reinsurance industry ...

Luxury watchmaker Bremont is to unveil a special Bermuda-themed watch to celebrate the Island hosting the historic America’s Cup yacht races. And the limited edition of 250 watches from UK-based Bremont, the official timekeeper for the America’s Cup ...

More than 800 jobs were lost in 2014, according to Government statisticians. The number of Bermudian job holders dropped by 671, from 24,504 in 2013 to 23,833 last year. The number of jobs held by non-Bermudians, excluding non-Bermudian spouses and p...