Tax planning for wealthy individuals via so-called loopholes in the tax law, have attracted significant media and congressional attention in the past few months.
Unfortunately, there is a misunderstanding of these perceived loopholes. A loophole, in ...
August 21, 2002
Dear Sir,
We are in a "State of Emergency" concerning education!
The public education system is in a dismal state where we have students leaving high school who cannot read nor write.
These same students will then assume that they are...
Sometimes when we meet people, we get a good feeling about their future. When I met Akilah Wilson, I immediately got the feeling she is one of those people who has a bright future ahead of her.
Akilah, at age 23, is a determined young woman.
So deter...
Three weeks ago, we started the process of learning how to review the mutual funds in your personal (and pension portfolio).
In the first article, you were given a personal risk tolerance test to take on your own time. In the second article, we deter...
Dedicated Wanda Hodgson is about to set out on a new career after obtaining a Master's degree - despite suffering from clinical depression all of her life.
The 55-year-old left Bermuda four years ago to begin studying for an MA in family and consumer...
Dear sir,
As a young boy growing up in Devonshire, Bermuda, I had been blessed with good role models in the area of sport and life.
At the Devonshire Recreation club, as a young boy I was blessed to be a part of something very special. In the area of...
THERE can be no other workforce in Bermuda more dedicated than that which slaves to the death for businessman Randolph Furbert.
The hundreds of thousands who graft around the clock for Mr. Furbert each has six legs, four wings and a life expectancy o...
THE United Kingdom has followed the lead of the United States, Bermuda and other countries as far away as Japan and Australia, by restricting UK blood in the transfusion chain as a precaution against the human form of "mad cow" disease.
Bermuda's own...
A well paid thief
August 17, 2002
Dear Sir,
I saw in yesterday's Royal Gazette (August 16) a report that someone had been jailed for two and a half years for embezzling $400,000 from one of our local banks.
I agree that a custodial sentence is approp...
THERE was something extraordinary about the homegoing service last Sunday for Eloise Elizabeth Simmons, the 73-year-old wife of Carl Simmons, a senior elder of the Brethren Assemblies of Bermuda.
There was nothing sombre about it. On the contrary, th...
