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Time flies by and last weekend seems an eternity ago but, mercifully, Bermuda dodged a bullet last weekend when Hurricane Leslie lost most of her punch and followed a somewhat meandering path that led to some inches of much desired rain coming down o...
DATE: Sep 15, 2012
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Tight Lines
Bond values and interest rates related to government debt (called sovereign bonds) have been featured repeatedly in finance news for months. Headline focus has been eastward on Euro zone countries, such as Italy, which has been challenged with higher...
DATE: Sep 15, 2012
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AUTHOR:
Martha Harris Myron
The Association of Bermuda Insurers and Reinsurers (ABIR), which represents 22 global insurance and reinsurance companies with substantial underwriting operations on the Island, now employ 1,700 people in Bermuda including more than 1,100 Bermudians ...
DATE: Sep 14, 2012
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The Bermuda Cricket season is now over and there were some highs and some lows. In fact it wasn’t all that most of us had envisioned, but there are a few positives in the season that was simply just a cricket season, nothing more, nothing less.
It wa...
DATE: Sep 14, 2012
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AUTHOR:
Clay Smith
Hi folks,
I can’t believe how quickly it changed from summer to full-on hurricane season. Thankfully, Leslie turned out to be a bit of a damp squib after all — here’s hoping we continue to be lucky and get through the rest of the season with no injur...
DATE: Sep 13, 2012
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Nothing to do in Bermuda?
Let me ask you this.
Has the concept of adding a little extra onto the bill for services well done, let’s call them tips or gratuities, gone too far?
I ask because while down in Australia last week I noticed no one gives tips. Now, the argument will...
DATE: Sep 12, 2012
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AUTHOR:
Ric Chapman
I recently had the opportunity to review the 2011 Economic Impact Study put out by the Association of Bermuda Insurers and Reinsurers a few months ago. There is something rather odd going on: their narrative is at odds with their own data.
In commen...
DATE: Sep 12, 2012
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Walton Brown
As the One Bermuda Alliance candidate for Pembroke Central, I have spent the past three months listening to people’s concerns and answering their questions. Walton Brown wrote an article last week asking for more details on “what the OBA would do if ...
DATE: Sep 12, 2012
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In 1902 James Allen wrote a little book that has become a classic. His book was titled As a Man Thinketh, and it is taken from thoughts in the book of Proverbs, namely, Proverbs 23:7. In the context that reads, “Do not eat the bread of a selfish man,...
DATE: Sep 11, 2012
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AUTHOR:
Philip Brownell
“Tear down this wall” were the dramatic words uttered by the late American President, Ronald Reagan, while speaking at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin in 1987.
Hastily constructed in 1961 to halt the flow of people from east to west, the Berlin Wall ...
DATE: Sep 11, 2012
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AUTHOR:
Al Seymour
