Former Hong Kong Governor Lord Patten will be among the guest speakers at the Bermuda-organised World Insurance Forum (WIF) in Dubai next week.
Organisers confirmed last night that the former British Cabinet Minister will speak to more than 350 deleg...
DATE: Mar 13, 2008 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Jonathan Kent
The time has come to condemn and discard bad habits and counter-productive practices in the House of Assembly. It's also time that we let the people in on how their Legislature is working for them – or not, as the case may be.
We have just concluded ...
All sections of Bermuda society must come together to solve divisions within the community, according to the US Consul General Gregory Slayton.
Mr. Slayton spoke yesterday at the Hamilton Rotary Club where he touched on the issues of unity, the state...
Bermuda insurance leaders will be weighing up Dubai's potential as an alternative business location, as well as a source of business opportunities, when they converge on the Middle Eastern city for the World Insurance Forum (WIF) next week.
That is t...
DATE: Mar 12, 2008 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Jonathan Kent
WASHINGTON (AP) - Bill Gates is coming back to Capitol Hill with the same wish list he has had for years: more visas for highly skilled workers, more math, science and engineering in schools and more money for technology investment.
Today, Mr. Gates'...
Several Members of Parliament finished the marathon Budget debate on Monday night by indulging in a feeding frenzy over a column written by this newspaper's Sports Editor last week.
Members from both sides of the House, in a rare show of unanimity, t...
Government has moved to regulate veterinarians that practice in Bermuda but setting up a new veterinarian register to better protect the public than current legislation allows.
Elvin James, Minister of Environment and Sport, introduced the Bill in th...
The cost of fuel and power rose almost 28 percent in a year, helping to propel the annual inflation rate to 3.9 percent, Government statistics show.
Consumer Price Index (CPI) figures for January show that year-on-year costs in the transport and vehi...
DATE: Mar 10, 2008 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Jonathan Kent
When lawyer and Progressive Labour Party sympathiser Wendell Hollis walks around town, black people he doesn't even know laud him in the street. But when he cycles in the morning, unrecognisable in his sports gear or rides his motorbike with a full f...
Premier Ewart Brown accepted an esteemed award from his alma mater, Howard University, on Saturday, in Washington DC.
Dr. Brown, who received the Distinguished Alumni Award, was a member of Howard University's undergraduate Class of 1968 and graduate...
