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Retailers back ‘bigger and better’ Harbour Nights
Stephen Thomson: This is exactly the type of forward thinking and initia...
Just four months into his tenure as the Leader of the Opposition, Marc Bean is enjoying an easy uphill climb.
A random survey of observers and insiders conducted by this newspaper found that Mr Bean’s supporters are cautiously optimistic about his p...
Part 2 of Young Women and Their Money. (Part 1 was featured on April 06, 2013 in the Royal Gazette.
Young women, Older women, Ancient women. This is the realistic picture of our lifespan from age thirty going forward. Thus, the answer to how much sh...
“It is said that Madam de Graaff was a horsewoman, and that in order to keep her habit hanging correctly it was weighted with Golden Coins.” — Hereward T Watlington, 1979.
Two centuries after they participated, to great profit, in an early form of ‘...
Bermuda’s ageing population is causing Alzheimer’s to have a greater impact on the Island, but programmes are being introduced to help.
Elizabeth Stewart, founder of Action on Alzheimer’s and Dementia (AAD) said few people are aware of how widespread...
DATE: Apr 09, 2013 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Owain Johnston-Barnes
As we all know, last year KFC Bermuda applied to the Supreme Court seeking to prevent the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry from referring the simmering dispute between KFC and the BIU to a Tribunal under the Labour Disputes Act 1992.
KFC’s ori...
‘Bermuda’s maritime economy wedded her people to sustained intercourse with a wider Atlantic world and dispelled the relative isolation characteristic of the island’s company-period history’ — Michael Jarvis 2002
These days, Bermuda is sailing in dif...
Bermuda needs to change the tone of debate about poverty and focus on quality of life, according to Age Concern’s Claudette Fleming.
Bermuda has very little absolute poverty, but Ms Fleming said the issue of relative poverty remains, bringing nearly ...
DATE: Apr 01, 2013 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Owain Johnston-Barnes
Government has pledged to do a better job than its predecessors to nurture and support a sustainable energy industry.
In his budget brief on the Energy Department, Economic Development Minister Grant Gibbons said that the Energy White Paper will be r...
Bermuda has once again come under the spotlight in the debate about multinational corporations and tax avoidance.
During a debate this week in the UK’s House of Commons, a UK MP said Britain “is responsible for some of the biggest tax havens in the ...
DATE: Mar 14, 2013 | CATEGORY: International Business |
