Investment professionals are carefully analysing recent central bank policy announcements, particularly those which have lately caused sharp and sudden moves in several of the world’s largest currencies. Last week, headline news surrounding the plung...
DATE: Jan 26, 2013 | CATEGORY: Personal Finance | AUTHOR: Bryan Dooley
January 22, 2013
Dear Sir,
In the event former Premier Dr Ewart Brown, a medical doctor, and Lt Col David Burch, a former regimental officer, took legal advice at all; this Uighur caper was a blunder of colossal and disastrous constitutional and inte...
DATE: Jan 23, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor |
Martin Luther King was an icon of a movement that transformed the United States, the roots of which extended from as far as Ghandi’s India and transcended national boundaries, including Bermuda. Obama’s current challenge as a President attempting to ...
DATE: Jan 21, 2013 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Glenn Fubler
Chief Justice Ian Kawaley has expressed concern over Bermuda’s “disgracefully inadequate” court facilities.
He also highlighted the rocketing costs of the legal aid system, and called for criminal procedures to be modernised.
In a speech at a special...
American International Group’s (AIG) decision last week not to sue the US Government over the federal bailout of the company in September 2008 could actually help the lawsuit initially filed by former AIG CEO Hank Greenberg’s company, Starr Internati...
DATE: Jan 14, 2013 | CATEGORY: International Business |
An independent Anti-Corruption Commission with investigatory powers, strong penalties for corrupt behaviour among public officials and whistle-blower protection are among a raft of measures being proposed by former Premier Alex Scott.
Mr Scott has ta...
My frustration and disagreement with the ”union mentality“ I described previously is well documented, as is my desire to discourage persons having a ’welfare mentality‘. It is also my belief that the haves should help the have nots. But we have a res...
Martha Myron Harris
New year, new start, new government, new goals, or are we recycling the same old topics? Of course, we are!
Nothing changes that much in a year. What is expected, however, is that with the new year comes fresh perspectives and ne...
Former Tourism Board head Maxwell Burgess has stepped down from the job, according to a spokesman for new One Bermuda Alliance Minister Shawn Crockwell.
Meanwhile, the Opposition Progressive Labour Party yesterday described Government’s announcement ...
DATE: Jan 04, 2013 | CATEGORY: Tourism | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
Government’s proposal to legislate a fixed date for general elections every five years will likely be keenly opposed by the Opposition Progressive Labour Party.
And with a slim majority in the House of Assembly, there’s no guarantee that the One Berm...
