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Dear Sir, Recently I was fortunate enough to have a meaningful conversation with a top civil servant from Whitehall who has had several foreign appointments representing the British Government. After a debate on the effect of the European Union on B...

Government has come under renewed pressure to reveal its position on the White Paper on overseas territories. Yesterday, National Liberal Party leader Charles Jeffers condemned Premier Jennifer Smith for being too quiet on the subject for too long. A...

attend a United Nations conference on decolonisation. Political lecturer Walton Brown -- who went to the St. Lucia meeting -- and lawyer Phil Perinchief all joined forces to demand Bermuda attendance at similar conferences in the future. Mr. Perinchi...

LONDON -- Some business leaders in Bermuda fear e-commerce could compromise the Island's reputation for straight financial dealing, the Financial Times reported yesterday. The top UK newspaper said there are concerns about the quality of businesses -...

Dear Sir, "As it was in the beginning so shall it be in end.'' As far as it says in the Bible about the beginning, God created herbs on the third day of creation and saw that it was good. So it could be plainly said that anyone who speaks out negati...

a cautious approach, it has been warned. That was the message from Bermuda College economic lecturer Craig Simmons, as he addressed the third independence forum held on the Island. Speaking at Somerset Cricket Club, he said the Island would need to e...

The following is the full text of the speech which local lawyer John Collis made to the International Bar Association last week on the effects on Bermuda's financial sector of the British White Paper on the Overseas Territories on Brmuda. Robin Cook,...

I am appalled by the amount of rubbish (lots of bottles and cans) left around "our'' beautiful island of Bermuda. We cannot always blame the visitors. I say this because I walk a lot in areas where they do not go very much (i.e. suburbs) so a lot of ...

off the OECD hitlist of "tax havens'' to getting it off it altogether. The story in today's newspaper that Bermuda fits the definition of harmful tax jurisdictions and is more than likely already on the list is worrying. The Organisation for Economic...

Bermuda's financial sector could be strangled by international red tape forced on it by Britain, a top lawyer has told US attorneys. And barrister John Collis said that the UK's White Paper on its colonies may signal a drive towards probing which goe...