International business chiefs are satisfied with Bermuda as a place to do business and live, a new survey revealed.
But big firm bosses are concerned about the cost of doing business on the Island, crime, public education standards and the potential ...
DATE: Nov 28, 2013 | CATEGORY: International Business | AUTHOR: Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
The cost of health and dental care helped push the cost of basic goods and services up 1.6 percent year on year, the latest Government statistics revealed today.
A major factor was said to be a 9.8 percent rise in health insurance premiums and a nine...
DATE: Nov 28, 2013 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
The Department of Immigration has granted Bermudian status to a six-year-old boy whose mother had been told he didn’t qualify.
The child was born on the Island to Bermudian parents, allegedly as the result of a rape, as revealed by The Royal Gazette ...
DATE: Nov 27, 2013 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
Designer dresses, Christmas notecards, paintings, plants — it’s all locally made and it’s all at the 18th annual Home-Grown Alternatives (HGA) event this Saturday.
“If you want a gift for the discerning person, something locally produced, something...
DATE: Nov 27, 2013 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Jessie Moniz Hardy
Dear Sir,
When you read the preamble to the Constitution of the United States you uncover a critical moment for the nation’s people that is exposed in the preamble’s rational. “Sometimes in the course of certain events there comes a time when a certa...
DATE: Nov 27, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor |
Members of the public will get chance to express their concerns over gang violence at a meeting next week.
Called by the Junior Minister of Public Safety, Sen. Jeffrey Baron, who serves as Chairperson for the Inter-Agency Gang Task Force, and members...
November 26th, 2013
Dear Sir,
It seems that the solution to the problem of $300 million of deficit year over year, is to simply talk it to death. Let’s defer the inevitable by filibusters of never ending questions and second guessing at every mention...
DATE: Nov 27, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor |
Business Buzz is a monthly column presented by the Bermuda Economic Development Corporation. Every month, read about entrepreneurship, obtain business management tips, and find out what’s going on in the small business sector.
Bermuda joined more th...
A UK-based international charity has singled out Bermuda in its campaign to crack down on offshore ‘tax havens’.
War or Want picked on Bermuda after reports that internet giant Google had increased to $6 billion the amount funnelled through the Islan...
DATE: Nov 26, 2013 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Jeremiah ‘Lil Quan’ Steede, Javon ‘Grenaid’ Duhart and Dariel ‘DJ D’Reb’ Reyes-Nunez were just three teens looking for something positive to do after school. Then a few years back they started writing and creating rap songs — and in the process found...