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Solvency II and solidarity is how I can best describe the initiatives and the continuity and administrative process that has brought Bermuda one step forward in enhancing the security and depth of the insurance and reinsurance business.
The preparati...
DATE: Dec 18, 2015
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Sir John Swan
The success at the recently completed Paris Climate Conference, in which 196 countries concluded an historic agreement on the complex issue of global warming, is something of a miracle. It is an example by representatives of most of the seven billion...
DATE: Dec 15, 2015
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Glenn Fubler
It is important after reading the recent headlines in the newspaper regarding Mark Pettingill and the judgment passed by the Chief Justice, to hear another opinion on the debate on same-sex marriage from a professional other than those of the legal f...
DATE: Dec 14, 2015
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“We created seven companies in 54 hours. What did you do last weekend?”
Most of the 30-odd people who were sitting in the room on December 4 had no idea what they were getting into. Some had an awesome idea that they wanted to share. Others had a bur...
DATE: Dec 12, 2015
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At the 21 Conference of Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which has been taking place in Paris since November 30 and continues until Friday, the governments of the world face the challenge of reaching an agreement ...
DATE: Dec 07, 2015
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Soon after I was elected to our Parliament in 1984, the Auditor-General, Larry Dennis, presented his Auditor’s Report. I was astonished that the report was two years late. So, in one of my first speeches, I suggested that the Auditor-General should b...
DATE: Dec 07, 2015
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The Royal Gazette apologises for the online vitriol that was directed at Andrea Moniz-DeSouza, the honorary consul for Portugal, as a result of a Letter to the Editor that was published yesterday.
The letter included unverified accusations against M...
DATE: Dec 02, 2015
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The Bermuda family experienced one of its deepest crises on the weekend of December 2, 1977 — the violent conclusion to a five-year period with ten lives lost. Notwithstanding the tragedy, as documented in Jonathan Smith’s latest book, Island Flames,...
DATE: Dec 02, 2015
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Glenn Fubler
There’s a statement on the Bermuda Government website, gov.bm, where people can sign up to serve on a government board or committee and it is: “You can make a difference in your community.”
It’s a statement that pretty much summarises what the One Be...
DATE: Dec 02, 2015
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I’m a gay Bermudian who has lived away from my homeland since 2005 when I graduated from college. This is in large part because the laws of Bermuda did not allow me to return without having to leave my long-term partner thousands of miles away.
As su...
DATE: Nov 30, 2015
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