255735 results returned for search: "" category "Other"
Former Education Minister Neletha Butterfield is the chair of Bermuda's new committee reviewing the recommendations of the damning Hopkins Report.
The group — Parliament's first ever joint select committee on education — met at the House of Assembly ...
DATE: Jul 30, 2008
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Bermuda-domiciled Dominion Petroleum has paid out £2.5 million to its former finance director Carlo Seidel to compensate him for loss of office and his legal costs, according to independent news website SmallCapNews.
The settlement sum is more than 1...
DATE: Jul 29, 2008
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
XL Capital Ltd. said last night its second-quarter profit plunged 57 percent on catastrophe claims and costs related to its bond insurer affiliate Security Capital Assurance (SCA).
Second-quarter net income was $237.9 million, or $1.34 a share, compa...
DATE: Jul 29, 2008
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
AUTHOR:
Jonathan Kent
Senators came together yesterday to pass legislation which could revolutionise education.
The Education Amendment Act 2008 comes after last year's damning Hopkins Report recommended a huge overhaul of the Island's failing schools system.
Under the ne...
DATE: Jul 29, 2008
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
Bermuda-based Security Capital Assurance Ltd. (SCA) has agreed to pay $500 million to Merrill Lynch & Co. Ltd. in exchange for the investment bank cancelling $3.5 billion in credit default swaps and ending its litigation against the bond insurer.
As ...
DATE: Jul 29, 2008
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
If Sammy Robinson's second coming in Cup Match is anything like the first, then cricket fans should brace themselves for another fireworks display.
It was exactly a decade ago when a then 22-year old Robinson set Somerset Cricket Club abuzz as a colt...
DATE: Jul 29, 2008
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
AUTHOR:
Colin Thompson
RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. held a hurricane forum in Rhode Island.
The Northeast Hurricane Mitigation Leadership Forum was held in Newport and was co-sponsored by RenaissanceRe's affiliate, WeatherPredict Consulting Inc., non-profit organisation Fed...
DATE: Jul 29, 2008
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
Bermuda-based XL Capital Ltd last night revealed the price it will pay for extricating itself from its ill-fated foray into the financial guaranty business — a cool $1.9 billion.
Some of XL's employees, meanwhile, will pay with their jobs, as the com...
DATE: Jul 29, 2008
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
AUTHOR:
Jonathan Kent
Track and field coach Brandon Hayden of Munroe College in Jamaica has been keeping a close watch on some of Bermuda's most promising athletes during their recent involvement in international meets.
Hayden attended this year's Carifta Games in St. Kit...
DATE: Jul 29, 2008
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
Thirty-one employees have left the North American Tourism Offices in the past four years, according to information released by Government.
Since Premier Ewart Brown became Tourism Minister in the summer of 2004, 22 have resigned, three have been fire...
DATE: Jul 29, 2008
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
