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 18, 2013 | CATEGORY: International Business |
An international symbol of good luck and strength is the latest piece to be added to the Astwood Dickinson Ltd. ’s signature collection. The jewellery store unveiled the 18 kt gold elephant-design piece on Tuesday evening during a shopping event at t...
DATE: Jun 13, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local Business | AUTHOR: Rebecca Zuill
A Bermudian working as a model in Los Angeles, California, made headlines after his rare pet lizard was stolen.
Darius Dio, who has appeared in advertisements for US store Target, has been accompanied by his bearded dragon lizard Drako for the last t...
DATE: Jun 13, 2013 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Gareth Finighan
A solo sailor stranded more than 200 miles out at sea for more than five hours was rescued by another participant in the Bermuda One-Two yacht race.
A Harbour Radio spokesman said yesterday the skipper of the 32ft sloop Solid Air ran into difficultie...
DATE: Jun 13, 2013 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Owain Johnston-Barnes
Backson eats a lot, is blinged out and has his own reality show. He’s a modern cahow bird, part of the first generation of cahows to be hatched from Nonsuch Island.
He is also the first cahow on Nonsuch Island to have his entire life so far (12 weeks...
Stanley Parris the father of Alan Paris, the only Bermudian to sail solo around the world was yesterday leading the annual 1-2 Race from Newport, Rhode Island to Bermuda.
He was expected to arrive in St George’s about 4am tomorrow morning.
And of all...
Catlin Group Limited has donated $1 million to the Bermuda Hospitals Charitable Trust’s (BHCT) fundraising campaign.
The charity is hoping to raise $40 million to help transform King Edward VII Memorial into a world-class facility by next year.
The W...
June 6, 2013
This letter was sent to the Bermuda Long Riders Motorcycle Club & Association and copied to The Royal Gazette.
On behalf of the 12 members from our Southern Cruisers Riding Club, I wish to thank the Bermuda Long Riders for their hospita...
DATE: Jun 07, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor |
More than 100 people have signed a petition circulated by the Centre for Justice calling for change to proposed amendments to the Human Rights Act.
Those signatures came in the space of less than 24 hours. The advocacy group’s concerns are now being ...
Bermudian David Zuill has just released a new weather radar iPhone app, called Bermuda Radar.
Apps, or application software, is software for specific purposes, while mobile apps are application software for mobile devices.
There are few apps targeted...
