In the end there were no maybes about it.
Bermuda’s Scottish residents woke up this morning to discover that their nation had chosen to remain part of the UK.
Opponents of independence won 55 percent of the vote while separatists won 45 percent with ...
The head of Bermuda-based Jardine Matheson yesterday wrote to the UK’s Financial Times to back a No vote in the referendum on Scottish independence.
Sir Henry Keswick, the chairman of Jardine Matheson Holdings, a huge conglomerate involved in a vari...
DATE: Sep 18, 2014 | CATEGORY: International Business |
September 11, 2014
Dear Sir,
The debate on the Independence Referendum in Scotland has certainly taken over the front pages in the British Press.
I read the coments of Mr Everson and my friend Bob Stewart. I should mention why I...
DATE: Sep 18, 2014 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor |
A succession of recent tragedies cannot help but bring to mind another summer 75 years past when, as the poet said, “waves of anger and fear” spread around the world and “the unmentionable odour of death offends the September night.”
In the Near Eas...
Imagine if Bermuda held an independence referendum and allowed all residents including expatriates and their teenage dependents to vote while Bermudians living overseas were not allowed to vote.
“If that happened there would be a riot,” said Ian Hind...
An independent Scotland could set itself up as an insurance and reinsurance centre, a top industry lawyer believes.
If Scotland’s residents vote to break away from the United Kingdom in a referendum on Thursday, contracts and wordings around many pol...
DATE: Sep 15, 2014 | CATEGORY: Reinsurance | AUTHOR: Jonathan Kent
“Well, I have a message for the Scots: Be afraid, be very afraid. The risks of going it alone are huge. You may think that Scotland can become another Canada, but it’s all too likely that it would end up becoming Spain without the sunshine.” - Paul ...
Somersfield Academy has hailed the success of its students, who passed the Middle Years Programme (MYP).
All Somersfield students predicted to earn their full MYP certificate were successful, with students scoring ahead of international averages in f...
Peter Everson said: “Bermuda always prospers when other countries face uncertainty,” pointing to the US War of Independence; US Civil War, First World War and Second World War, all of which provided economic benefits to the Island, primarily in its r...
DATE: Sep 11, 2014 | CATEGORY: International Business | AUTHOR: Rebecca Zuill
