3427 results returned for search: "education AND " category "Business"
The Digicel Haiti Foundation marked its one-year anniversary with the achievement of delivering on a promise to build 20 primary schools in its first year of operation, two in each district of Haiti.
The primary schools, which are completely furnishe...
DATE: Mar 13, 2008
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
Former Hong Kong Governor Lord Patten will be among the guest speakers at the Bermuda-organised World Insurance Forum (WIF) in Dubai next week.
Organisers confirmed last night that the former British Cabinet Minister will speak to more than 350 deleg...
DATE: Mar 13, 2008
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
AUTHOR:
Jonathan Kent
Bermuda insurance leaders will be weighing up Dubai's potential as an alternative business location, as well as a source of business opportunities, when they converge on the Middle Eastern city for the World Insurance Forum (WIF) next week.
That is t...
DATE: Mar 12, 2008
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
AUTHOR:
Jonathan Kent
WASHINGTON (AP) - Bill Gates is coming back to Capitol Hill with the same wish list he has had for years: more visas for highly skilled workers, more math, science and engineering in schools and more money for technology investment.
Today, Mr. Gates'...
DATE: Mar 12, 2008
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
The cost of fuel and power rose almost 28 percent in a year, helping to propel the annual inflation rate to 3.9 percent, Government statistics show.
Consumer Price Index (CPI) figures for January show that year-on-year costs in the transport and vehi...
DATE: Mar 10, 2008
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
AUTHOR:
Jonathan Kent
CHICAGO (AP) — Like their peers elsewhere, the students at a one-of-a-kind public elementary school on the South Side of Chicago are dazzled by pop-culture stars — Beyonce and Common, Kanye West and Lil' Wayne, LeBron James and Dwyane Wade.
Listen cl...
DATE: Mar 10, 2008
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
For years I have been begging people not to use tax withholding as a forced savings tool.
I understand the reasoning. Times are tight and people want some financial security, even if it means letting the federal government keep their money out of fea...
DATE: Mar 08, 2008
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
So you think it is only UK Taxation issues that can come back years later like a long lost and totally unloved relative? Trust me, it is not! After preaching to the unconvinced for years here in Bermuda about old or not understood tax issues that mig...
DATE: Mar 08, 2008
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
NEW YORK (Bloomberg) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc. CEO Lloyd Blankfein said the credit-market contraction that started with sub-prime mortgages is at least halfway over.
"We're not in the ninth inning by any means, we're maybe two-thirds through, a half...
DATE: Mar 06, 2008
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
WASHINGTON (Associated Press) - Accenture LLP, the US-based unit of Bermuda-based consulting firm Accenture Ltd., spent more than $3.6 million in 2007 on its own behalf to lobby Washington.
The company spent almost $1.8 million in the second half of ...
DATE: Mar 04, 2008
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
