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The resounding success of the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series Bermuda weekend has sparked fresh optimism for the potential rebirth of the City of Hamilton. The sailing spectacle, which attracted huge crowds to Front Street and provided a maj...

The vast majority of personal trainer Jeremy Smith’s clients weren’t athletes or gym rats. They were regular businessmen and women who struggled to find the time to work out. His solution? Beat the Desk, a website that offers exercise plans and nu...

Electoral concerns should not sway the Bermuda Government from pressing ahead with same-sex marriage, according to former Progressive Labour Party MP Renee Webb. Ms Webb, who struggled unsuccessfully under the PLP Government to bring human rights pro...

Safety concerns are being expressed that artificial sports surfaces, the same pitches at the Bermuda Football Association and BAA fields, may be causing cancer. The part of the field causing concern is the minute pieces of black rubber that are foun...

Players took advantage of prime scoring conditions yesterday in the first round of the Nike Golf PGA Team Championship of Canada. Favourites Billy Walsh and Danny King, and the surprising tandem of Conrad Riley and Thomas Keddy, put together fourball...

In a break with long-standing tradition amateurs will now be able to accept prize money at golf tournaments; they just cannot keep a cent of it. Amateur golfers will also now be allowed to be paid “reasonable expenses” and the reinstatement period fo...

Axis Capital Holdings yesterday reported net income of $248 million for the third quarter — down $31 million on the same quarter last year. The figure represents net income available to shareholders of $2.50 a share, compared to the $279 million and ...

Bermuda business has launched a campaign to water down proposed tough US legislation aimed at cracking down on hedge fund reinsurers. The Association of Bermuda Insurers and Reinsurers (Abir), led by president and executive officer Bradley Kading, pe...

The Bank of Butterfield has agreed to buy the multibillion dollar private banking trust and investment arm of rivals HSBC Bermuda. The move means Butterfield will acquire the Bermuda Trust Company Ltd as well as the trust and investment business of H...

Phillip Ingham hasn’t worked in five years. He’s filled out hundreds of applications but things often tank at the interview stage. The 45-year-old suspects it’s not a problem with his credentials or how he presents himself, it’s his cerebral palsy....

A fundraiser for two African rhino charities raised more than double the amount that organisers had targeted. One of the organisers Alet Coetzee had expected the charity walk would raise $5,000 for Saving the Survivors and the Rhino Orphanage but af...

Bermuda-based oil drilling rig operators Nabors yesterday posted a loss of $250.9 million for the third quarter of the year. The firm said the net income figure included the impairment of Nabors’ holdings in C&J Energy Services, which totalled $180.6...