The prosecution at the end of February in the US of the operator of an online gambling site based in Antigua is a cause for concern by all offshore jurisdictions aiming to foster e-commerce on their shores.
While Bermuda does not allow Internet gambl...
DATE: Mar 06, 2000 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Ahmed Elamin
Dear Sir, Before the Rev. Thacker came to Bermuda to be the rector of St. Mark's church, he had heard of its reputation as being conservative, stiff and unloving. He felt that there were a lot of strikes against him coming, but he always believed Go...
The Bermuda National Pension Scheme Act has become the law of the land. And don't we know it as we practically learned the various pension providers' ads, in print, radio and television by heart. What does the new pension mean to each and every emplo...
The Education Ministry budget will increase by $885,000 to $85.9 million.
And it is the Department of Education that takes the biggest slice of the pie with $68,958,000 going towards the running of the curriculum and schools.
In the coming year, $356...
DATE: Mar 04, 2000 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Patrick Burgess
I submit it may be only semantics, yet an important linguistic factor, as time and time again I have read in many articles in our newspapers (including The Royal Gazette editorial), and on some of our daily radio talk shows when discussing race relat...
beach has revealed another kind of postal delivery -- seamail.
Just less than two years since a class of Spanish schoolchildren threw their message in a bottle into the north Atlantic, the winds brought it 3,000 miles to the Island's South Shore. And...
published in the Saturday newspaper since its inception, will now appear every Thursday.
The move is being made to make room for the newspaper's new Personal Finance section, which was launched last Saturday.
"Young Observer has been a very important...
teachers' performance in a bid to keep up standards, it was revealed yesterday.
The news came after Senate President Alf Oughton -- who led a major probe into the health care system in Bermuda -- welcomed a new body to licence and review medical-rela...
DATE: Mar 02, 2000 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Regarding the new Channel 10 -- "Discovery Kids''.
Tell me if I am missing something here? Is there some reason that we are now subjected to "Discovery Kids'' -- a Spanish children's channel? I was under the impression that most of Bermuda's pre-scho...
ensuring a child gets to school.
Denise E. Mayho, 36, of Lapsley Lane, Sandys pleaded not guilty yesterday to "failure to secure regular attendence at school'' for her two children between 29 October and December 17.
To be tried on June 27, Mayho is ...
