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A Maryland state pressure group opposed to the installation of smart meter technology has urged Bermudians to lobby the authorities to stop it from happening here.
Bermuda’s electricity supplier BELCO has proposed installing smart meters in every hom...
DATE: Jul 05, 2014
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David Fox, Business Editor
The electricity utility could face a surge of opposition to controversial plans to install smart meter units in every Bermuda home — if experience elsewhere is anything to go by.
Smart meter installations are one of the first things that Belco plans ...
DATE: Jul 04, 2014
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David Fox, Business Editor
Property ownership can be a sensitive issue in a territory with limited space like Bermuda, where a single property can have a significant impact on many neighbouring properties.
That can particularly be the case where the property is co-owned.
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DATE: Jul 04, 2014
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The Regulatory Authority’s (RA) first chief executive officer Philip Micallef is to leave his post earlier than expected.
An RA spokesman said: “Philip Micallef, a key player in Bermuda’s comprehensive and successful deregulation of the telecommunica...
DATE: Jul 04, 2014
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Rebecca Zuill
The stark rise in health insurance premiums continued to drive inflation, as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI).
Government figures show that consumers paid 2.1 percent more in May for the standardised basket of goods that make up the CPI, th...
DATE: Jul 04, 2014
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Dear Heather
I have put my property on the market and I know the asking price is a bit high, but I would like to get a good price for it and I’m not in a hurry to sell. I am looking for some market advice.
Not in a Hurry to Sell, Paget
Dear Not in H...
DATE: Jul 03, 2014
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Eleven senior students from Impact Mentoring Academy have spent a day at XL — for a lesson on the world of work.
The “Impact Day” was designed to give the Smith’s Parish school students an opportunity to learn more about potential careers, and how t...
DATE: Jul 03, 2014
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A rating agency brought the hammer down on Bermuda’s banking sector yesterday with a bad report card citing projected credit losses of more than a billion dollars, for a period not ending for another two years.
Standard & Poor’s took various ratings ...
DATE: Jul 02, 2014
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David Fox, Business Editor
Butterfield Bank yesterday confirmed that it is absorbing a portion of a 0.6 percent charge applied by credit card companies for cross-border transactions.
First notice of this was a message on credit card statements Butterfield customers received th...
DATE: Jul 02, 2014
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David Fox, Business Editor
The Caribbean Journal is reporting that the recently-released 2012 World Bank data on tax revenue collected by central governments around the world, as a percentage of GDP points to the country in the Caribbean with the highest rate of revenue collec...
DATE: Jul 01, 2014
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