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The rapid ageing of the world’s most advanced economies makes for both economic challenges and potential investment opportunities. According to a recent study by the United Nations, the ageing demographic is a “megatrend that is transforming economie...
DATE: Mar 18, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Bryan Dooley
Bermuda has so far donated close to $500,000 to the Philippines recovery effort in the wake of last year’s devastating Typhoon Haiyan.
This includes $65,000 raised by ANCOP, or Answering the Cry of the Poor, and $60,000 from the Association of Filipi...
DATE: Mar 18, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Upcoming developments to the Island’s roads have been revealed by Public Works Minister Patricia Gordon-Pamplin in her Budget brief, delivered at the House of Assembly.
Road improvements have been allocated $4.75 million for the coming fiscal year, t...
DATE: Mar 18, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bermuda stargazers could help an international astronomy body track a rare event.
An asteroid is due to block out one of the brightest stars in the sky — and volunteers have been asked to help follow and time its progress.
Astronomers from the Intern...
DATE: Mar 18, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
The Bermuda Housing Corporation is currently in “sensitive discussions with enthusiastic, interested investors” for the Grand Atlantic Development.
Just one unit was sold at the Warwick site, criticised as a “white elephant” after consumers failed to...
DATE: Mar 18, 2014
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Tai Home Spa is the kind of place where you’re encouraged to leave your shoes — along with all your worries — at the door.
So when this reporter was invited to sample the spa’s latest monthly special for March — a massage, luxury facial and classic ...
DATE: Mar 18, 2014
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Businesses owned by non-Bermudians will be able to buy up residential and commercial properties under new Government proposals.
But Economic Development Minister Grant Gibbons cautioned that, because land is a scarce commodity, restrictions limiting ...
DATE: Mar 18, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A fairer system for dumping charges is coming for both the Marsh Folly and airport dumps, according to Public Works Minister Patricia Gordon-Pamplin.
Starting next month, horticultural waste at Marsh Folly will be billed by weight rather than the num...
DATE: Mar 18, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Tougher rules governing charities have been passed by MPs in a bid to avoid them being used for money laundering or terrorist activity.
Junior Home Affairs Minister Sylvan Richards said the new rules — which cover areas like accounts and allows chari...
DATE: Mar 18, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
An autobiography of a former Government Minister is now available as an e-book.
The move to publish Dr Clarence Terceira’s ‘Tessi’s Highway — My Life’s Journey’ came after the print version was a virtual sell-out.
Kaleidoscope Media chief Chris Gibbo...
DATE: Mar 18, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
