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This is the second in a new, possibly monthly, series on the millennial trend to becoming financially independent, retire early (FIRE!). We first covered this phenomenon on July 27. FIRE! is a very real financial movement in its lifestyle changing a...

Surprise! Fire — short for Financial Independence, Retire Early, is not about us anxious-about-retiring oldsters. Nor is Fire about Fireworks, but a new millennial finance movement, generating a heightened global surge of interest (and dedicated fol...

Bermuda has been held accountable to meet yet another economic compliance hurdle. We’ve been in these scrutinised headlines before. We’ve heard it all before — from country friends and economic foes alike. Frustratingly, from our sophisticated regul...

Country above self is the motto of the twin-island federation of St Kitts & Nevis. A motto that is, evidently, not just words, but a daily way of life. This ancestral Caribbean homeland of an extremely large proportion of Bermudians was the first st...

So Bermuda is blacklisted with the European Union and the hopes are to get off the list as soon as possible to avoid future losses in business and real damage to the economy. The perception of Bermuda as a tax haven, in spite of everything the Govern...

I recall back in and around 1998, Bermuda’s change to politically appointed MPs for the post of Attorney-General, which caused me to ponder the difference in efficacy between those government systems that have the AG’s chambers as part of the govern...

A 90-year old widow with a developmentally disabled adult child struggles with the everyday cost of living while trying to make sense of the proposed government budget tax and social service increases. This is a hypothetical composite case based on r...

In the fourth of five articles in conjunction with the Bermuda’s Demographic Challenge series, Bill Storie highlights the hopes and concerns of those approaching retirement. Today we discuss the third age group in our series — the 50 to 65-year-old...

Creating a cash cushion for yourself and your family is a good plan to start the new year. This is a continuation of last week’s article, “Forget new year’s resolutions — just set one goal”. A cashflow liquidity crunch, or a credit squeeze in industr...

Hmmmm. It is now day five of brand new year 2019. You’ve just experienced another hectic year-end deadline at your job; you may have children and you’ve shopped and spent to meet the holiday expectations; you’ve laid out the red carpet for all the re...