US Expatriates have additional worries. On the week before the 4th of July celebrations in the United States, the land of the free and the home of the brave, I write concerning relevant events for former United States citizens who have relinquished t...
On Wednesday the US Federal Reserve (the “Fed”) indicated that their Quantitative Easing Programme (“QE”) (a programme where they buy Treasuries and mortgage backed securities) will be more conditional on economic circumstances in the US and is likel...
The second of the summer holidays has come and gone even though the official start to summer was yesterday when the sun had reached its northernmost at the Tropic of Cancer (23.44 Nº latitude). This is properly known as the summer solstice, a term wh...
KPMG in Bermuda has announced its 2013 Island Infrastructure Summit will take place September 22 to 24 in Miami, Florida, focusing on issues affecting island jurisdictions.
This year’s summit will explore how island economies can use alternative fina...
DATE: Jun 21, 2013 | CATEGORY: International Business |
KPMG in Bermuda has announced its 2013 Island Infrastructure Summit will take place September 22 to 24 in Miami, Florida, focusing on issues affecting island jurisdictions.
This year’s summit will explore how island economies can use alternative fina...
DATE: Jun 20, 2013 | CATEGORY: International Business |
Bermuda's Brazilian Football School will hold their second annual Summer Football/Life-Skills Camp next month at Goose Gosling Field, catering to a maximum 120 student athletes over a two-week period.
The first camp last year was supported by Hiscox...
A British newspaper article said Prime Minister David Cameron could make Bermuda open up on taxes if it wanted to.
"If Bermuda succeeds in undermining an attempted crackdown on tax havens, it's because our PM allowed it to happen," writes The Guardia...
DATE: Jun 19, 2013 | CATEGORY: International Business |
June 17, 2013
Dear Sir,
Following the excellent letter ‘We don’t need so many MPs’ by ‘Observing Better Administration’ on Tuesday of last week I would like to voice my support and remind readers of my letter of September 1, 2010. I submit an edited ...
DATE: Jun 19, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor |
Police suspects who are arrested, or even just stopped and searched on the street, need to know their legal rights, according to a campaign group.
And the Centre for Justice has now produced a 16-page leaflet on the rights of anyone who comes into co...
DATE: Jun 19, 2013 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Gareth Finighan
A billionaire investor and his family’s Bermuda’s IAT Reinsurance are suing the US Internal Revenue Service for refunds of $186 million in taxes and interest they paid after the IRS revoked IAT’s tax-exemption retroactively.
Forbes reports that in co...
DATE: Jun 19, 2013 | CATEGORY: International Business |
