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Grotto Bay Beach Resort has notched up a top international award from a travel company in competition with more than 500 other hotels.
The hotel, at Bailey’s Bay in the east end, has won the 2013 Golden Apple Award from US travel giants Apple Vacatio...
DATE: Oct 31, 2013
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Bermuda can cash in on its existing experience in high finance to attract investment from the oil-rich Islamic world, Premier Craig Cannonier said at a conference in London.
Mr Cannonier said: “We are at the World Islamic Economic Forum to continue t...
DATE: Oct 30, 2013
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More than 50 small businesspeople have benefited from a special seminar aimed at helping them improve their bottom line.
Vendors were told the most efficient way to import goods, the use of technology to increase sales and smart use of social media t...
DATE: Oct 29, 2013
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Reinsurance firm Montpelier Re yesterday said it had a “strong” third quarter — and that all arms of the business contributed to its profits.
The results left the firm with a total shareholder equity of more than $1,695 million and total capital in e...
DATE: Oct 29, 2013
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PartnerRe yesterday reported operating earnings of $311.2 million — a quarterly record for the firm of $5.70 a share — for the third quarter of the year.
Net premiums were up 15 percent (14 percent on a constant foreign exchange business) at $1.4 bil...
DATE: Oct 29, 2013
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A man has confessed that his testimony that helped convict a Jamaican man of drugs offences in Bermuda was false.
Delroy Duncan is serving ten years in Bermuda for his part in an attempt to smuggle more than $50,000 worth of cocaine into Bermuda — b...
DATE: Oct 28, 2013
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Energy goes to waste because there is no deal for power firm Belco to buy electricity generated through solar power by business users, a company chairman said.
Rod Ferguson, chairman of hardware store Gorham’s, said that, although Belco gave credit t...
DATE: Oct 28, 2013
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Conyers law firm has notched up recognition as a top business firm in a legal league table.
And the firm’s Alec Anderson, head of the global private client and trust practice, has been named one of the ten ”most highly regarded individuals” in his fi...
DATE: Oct 25, 2013
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A Bermudian tycoon based in London has sealed a multimillion dollar deal to sell his online delivery firm to eCommerce giants eBay.
Tom Allason, who spent much of his early life on the island and whose mother Nicole still lives here, founded his Shut...
DATE: Oct 25, 2013
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A top hedge fund regulator has been lined up for a major conference run the Bermuda Monetary Authority’s regulatory forum.
Dame Amelia Fawcett, chairman of the Hedge Funds Standards Board, will be the keynote speak for the one-day event, to be held a...
DATE: Oct 24, 2013
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