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When Bermuda’s voters gave a landslide electoral victory to the notoriously protectionist Progressive Labour Party in July 2017, we wrote that the election could well prove “the final mis-steerage that drives the country’s economy off the proverbial ...

In life, it is interesting to hear people brag about any given entity or issue. You know, the whole feelgood notion that paints something as near Utopian. Anyone listening to them would think to themselves: “Wow, this is the greatest thing since slic...

Trying to define or understand this moment in time in its appropriate context naturally depends on the observer. Whether this epoch in our political life is an auspicious moment as in a matter of divine providence, or as a religious person might say ...

Three Bermudian Supreme Court judges are now able to sit part-time in the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands. Chief Justice Ian Kawaley has been appointed as a judge of the Grand Court Financial Services Division, with Puisne Judges Carlisle Greaves a...

Two Bermuda Police officers will arrive in the Cayman Islands this weekend after an armed suspect was shot dead while the local firearms unit executed a warrant. The officers will lead an independent inquiry in the death of the 34-year-old Jamaican m...

The president of Bermuda Bar Association said yesterday that ensuring clients complied with tax obligations in their home countries was “probably not a matter” for the island’s corporate lawyers. In the wake of the massive Panama Papers data leak, Ri...

NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Two units of Cayman National Corp pleaded guilty to helping US clients evade taxes and hide more than $130 million in offshore accounts as a Justice Department crackdown on tax cheats expands beyond Switzerland. Cayman National...

A major sector of the banking industry in the Caymans could be wiped out by tough regulations designed to fight money-laundering. The number of Class B banks registered with the islands’ regulator has fallen by 14 to 184 over the last year alone. Cla...

A court ruling promising same-sex partners of Bermudians the same rights to reside and work as spouses of Bermudians has garnered international attention. Cayman premier Alden McLaughlin told The Cayman Reporter on Monday that the ruling had bolstere...

Progressive Labour Party MP Derrick Burgess has labelled economist Bob Stewart “out of touch” for writing an opinion piece criticising Bermuda politicians who “play on irrational fears about immigrants”. The article, ‘The Ambivalence of Bermuda Immig...

A telecoms engineer has become the first Bermudian to take part in an international freediving competition. Scott Amos set a string of national freedive records during the Deja Blue freediving event held in Grand Cayman last month. His feat is even m...

A bid by UK Prime Minister David Cameron to increase transparency in offshore jurisdictions like Bermuda was a stunt designed to deflect an EU tax bid that would have damaged the City of London, a Conservative member of the House of Lords has claimed...