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Bermuda’s tax system will tomorrow come under the spotlight again when US construction equipment giant Caterpillar faces a US Senate hearing.
The world’s biggest earthmoving and mining equipment maker is to be probed over its offshore tax arrangement...
DATE: Mar 31, 2014
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Flags on Government buildings will today fly at half mast to honour former Premier and businessman Sir David Gibbons, who died on Sunday.
And Government announced that flags will also be lowered to half staff on the day of Sir David’s funeral, detail...
DATE: Mar 31, 2014
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Former Bermuda Deputy Governor Mark Capes has a permanent VIP house guest in his new job as Governor of the remote UK South Atlantic Territories — a 182 year old tortoise that could be the oldest living land creature in the world.
Jonathan — who star...
DATE: Mar 29, 2014
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A mystery shipwreck off the coast of Florida has been identified as a Bermuda schooner that ran aground in a storm.
Marine archaeologists have puzzled over the origins of the ship for years — but painstaking detective work led to an article in a Sing...
DATE: Mar 29, 2014
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An Island insurance firm is set to become the first to pay medical claims direct to customers’ bank accounts.
BF&M are to officially launch the new service on Monday — which will cut waiting times for cash and avoid trips to the bank to deposit chequ...
DATE: Mar 29, 2014
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A US business tycoon with close links to Bermuda who once worked on the top-secret project to develop the United States’ Second World War nuclear bombs has died in hospital.
Marlan Bourns, an engineer and entrepreneur who founded technology firm Bour...
DATE: Mar 28, 2014
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A Warwick road was this morning closed after a utility pole caught fire.
Police closed a section of Middle Road between Tamarind Vale and Burnt House Hill to allow workers to replace the damaged pole.
A police spokesman said traffic diversions were i...
DATE: Mar 27, 2014
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A Bermuda taxi driver is operating a cashless cab — but that doesn’t mean passengers ride for free.
Wayne Hodgson has fitted his cab with a credit card machine which allows customers to pay their fare without cash.
Mr Hodgson spoke out after a letter...
DATE: Mar 26, 2014
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Five people were taken to hospital after two crashes on Middle Road yesterday.
A 40-year-old Southampton woman had to be cut free by firefighters after her car was in a head-on collision with a truck around 4pm on the Paget stretch of the road, while...
DATE: Mar 26, 2014
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Bermuda’s shipping registry could be turned into a quango, it was revealed on Friday.
The news came as Tourism and Transport Minister Shawn Crockwell announced that the UK had lifted a ban on the size of the Bermuda-flagged fleet, imposed two years a...
DATE: Mar 25, 2014
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