HCC Insurance Holdings, which has offices in Bermuda, has acquired Indiana-based MultiNational Underwriters (MNU) and also been given approval to establish a new Lloyd's of London syndicate.
MNU provides international life, accident and health insura...
At the breaking point
January 6, 2008
Dear Sir,
As a nation our idolisation has come for all to bear.
This one comes in the underlining form called fear.
It's here for all to see, some have succumbed and left families, friends to bear tears.
At a tim...
House prices kept steady as more condominiums went on the market in 2006, according to a Government report on the economy.
Growth in real estate and rent went up 0.8 percent for that year — much less than the five-year average of 4.6 percent.
Accordi...
DATE: Jan 07, 2008 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Tim Smith
On the evening of Tuesday, December 18, Neletha Butterfield was celebrating with the rest of the Progressive Labour Party as both she and her party soared to resounding victories at the General Election.
Less than 24 hours later, Ms Butterfield was t...
When the old Cable & Wireless dish was taken down in Smith's parish, the company probably didn't realise it was inadvertently dismantling a teleport into the Bermuda Triangle.
"Thank goodness we got a picture first," said Rod Farrington author of new...
We are all at risk
December 29, 2007
Dear Sir,
Thank you for allowing me the privilege to express my personal views regarding the recent shootings in our country. We are now pondering the recent death of another one of our young men from a senseless ...
Veteran civil servant Joeann Smith is continuing to act as Chief Education Officer in the absence of a permanent appointment, the Ministry of Education revealed last night.
Eight months after a team of experts advised a CEO be installed immediately, ...
It could have been overly sentimental and feel-good, this movie about a pioneering black debate team in the segregated South. But Denzel Washington, as director and star, manages to find the right tone much of the time in "The Great Debaters".
It cer...
For the first time in 14 years, the teen birth rate rose in 2006. After falling 34 percent from its 1991 peak, teen births increased three percent, according to a new report.
However, the US teen birth rate is the world's highest – triple that of Can...
Ellen-Kate Horton sent an e-mail to public school principals, teachers and Ministry of Education staff on Friday, December 21, at 4.31 p.m.
"Good Evening everyone," she wrote. "Earlier today, the permanent secretaries received appointments. I am extr...
DATE: Jan 04, 2008 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
