says a Jamaican businessman and former Cabinet Minister.
"You're dealing with the biggest coward in the world -- money,'' the Hon.
R.D. (Danny) Williams told The Royal Gazette yesterday. "We have had that experience in Jamaica where money ran away be...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Bermuda's competitors in international business are using the Island's lengthy Independence debate in their marketing at the biggest insurance conference in North America, a senior banker claimed this week.
And one international comp...
DATE: Apr 27, 1995 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: David Fox, Business Editor
Business leaders want an early referendum to get "the result they want'', Premier the Hon. Sir John Swan said yesterday.
Speaking to The Royal Gazette at the RIMS international insurance conference in San Francisco, Sir John said: "Government is very...
government is considering delaying the Independence referendum until young people are home in December. There are all sorts of arguments about the supposed advantages of such a delay. There was even a suggestion that the UBP wanted time to consult wi...
in light of the Progressive Labour Party's boycott call, Opposition Leader Mr.
Frederick Wade predicted yesterday.
"They recognise that there's no chance for a `yes' vote with our position as it stands,'' Mr. Wade told The Royal Gazette . "Perhaps th...
not stand up to scrutiny, says Transport Minister the Hon. Maxwell Burgess.
In calling for a boycott of the Independence referendum, the PLP leadership has said reform of Bermuda's electoral boundaries and removal of about 300 foreigners from the vot...
Gazette has learned.
The date for the vote is the Premier's call. He was off the Island yesterday attending an insurance conference in San Francisco. But Deputy Premier the Hon. Irving Pearman -- who has previously talked of a summer referendum -- wo...
meeting on Thursday to decide whether the union should take part in the referendum on Independence planned for this summer.
BIU president Mr. Ottiwell Simmons MP told The Royal Gazette yesterday he personally supported the referendum boycott called f...
(Risk & Insurance Management Society) Conference in San Francisco on the weekend in a unified effort aimed at marketing Bermuda's insurance industry.
It is estimated that Government will split a $125,000 bill for the effort this year with the industr...
DATE: Apr 24, 1995 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: David Fox, Business Editor
from Bermuda companies because of better pay. A senior Bermudian executive with a local captive management firm sees it as one of the issues facing the local industry. Mrs. Irmgard Viera said: "I'm getting very distressed when we as local companies l...
