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Power firm Belco has given Government’s new electricity sector policy its cautious backing.
The news came after Government on Friday said it wanted high-quality, low cost power services — as well as methods that were kind to the environment, secure a...
DATE: Jun 29, 2015
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
The Baltic republic of Latvia has pulled Bermuda off its blacklist of uncooperative tax jurisdictions supplied to the European Commission.
And the move means the Island has dropped below the ten-nation threshold for inclusion on the EU hitlist — lead...
DATE: Jun 29, 2015
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Legal firm Pettingill & Co has hired a new lawyer to head its family law department.
English barrister Katie Richards, who has been practice for 14 years, worked in the UK in the area of family law before moving to Bermuda in 2009.
A spokesman for th...
DATE: Jun 26, 2015
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
The value of monthly retail sales improved for an eighth consecutive month in April, up 4.3 per cent year-on-year. After adjusting for the retail sales rate of inflation, the volume of sales rose 3.8 per cent.
Depending on how the latest statistics a...
DATE: Jun 26, 2015
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Scott Neil
Bermuda has to attract new businesses to the Island to diversify its economy, the Chamber of Commerce said yesterday.
Nathan Kowalski, co-chairman of the Chamber’s economics committee, said a rash of mergers and takeovers in the reinsurance industry ...
DATE: Jun 26, 2015
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
European bureaucrats yesterday backed off after a controversial hit list of “tax havens” that included Bermuda caused a storm of protest.
The move came after the European Commission (EC) unveiled a 30-strong list of non-cooperative tax jurisdictions ...
DATE: Jun 24, 2015
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Have you ever noticed how much easier it is to get things done when you work with other people on the same objective? There is little doubt that the result is often greater than the sum of the parts.
Too often we try and act as rugged individualists...
DATE: Jun 23, 2015
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Digicel yesterday announced it was axing up-front charges for phones on contracts.
The firm said it would offer discounts of up to 100 per cent on popular phones from leading makers for customers on postpaid smartphone plans.
A spokesman for the firm...
DATE: Jun 23, 2015
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A top international tax expert yesterday backed Bermuda in a row over the country’s inclusion on an EU blacklist — and said the Island should not have been included.
Pascal Saint-Amans, director of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Develo...
DATE: Jun 23, 2015
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Fraud and fraud investigation, and how businesses and organisations can respond with effective fraud risk management strategies, will be discussed at a free public event on Thursday.
The panel discussion, which is part of the Department of E-commerce...
DATE: Jun 22, 2015
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