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Part 2 of Estate Planning. Part 1 was featured in RG on September 13, 2014 Are we ever prepared for the worst? Leaving our legacy. No one, almost no one, wants to think about, or even admit that somewhere sometime, we will become one of the dearly ...

A cigar half-smoked by wartime leader Winston Churchill during a conference in Bermuda is to go up for auction. The British Prime Minister, who led the Allies to victory in the Second World War, lit up the La Aroma de Cuba cigar while holding talks w...

Scientists and insurance industry experts will come together to discuss the issue of flood risk at a seminar next month. The Catastrophe Risk Seminar will be hosted by the The Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences’ (BIOS) Risk Prediction Initiative (RP...

The huge hulking form of the car ship, Hoegh Inchon, loomed into view off Hamilton yesterday as the carrier dropped off a batch of new vehicles at the docks. After a tug-assisted pirouette in the harbour the vast vessel docked at Hamilton Docks at 11...

A former Bermuda scientist aims to link the academic world and Island business to better predict disasters. And a new course at the University of Miami — the brainchild of ex-Bermuda Institute for Ocean Science (BIOS) researcher Professor Dennis Hans...

Brokers will have to take on a bigger advisory role to keep their clients on board, a financial services firm chief said yesterday. Arthur Wightman, PWC Bermuda managing director and insurance leader, said that research carried out by the firm had hi...

Dear Dave — Some friends recently offered me a timeshare. It’s an older place on the beach, and they’ve had it for about 20 years. I’d have to pay a transfer fee of $100, plus a yearly association fee of $500. I know you’re not a big fan of timeshare...

Bermuda is a proud nation, justifiably so — with our long, long spectacular tradition of seafaring commerce. 400 years ago, when the settlers in Jamestown were still in sheer survival mode, our ancestors established an extraordinary reputation as the...

The impact of a hurricane far more devastating than the 2012 superstorm Sandy is the subject of a report by reinsurer Swiss Re. In the year 1821 on September 3, an estimated category three or four hurricane made landfall in North Carolina and careere...

The Island’s tug fleet is back up to full strength. The Powerful has been out of action for several months despite undergoing a major refit in the US last year. But the tug was back on the water this week. For most of the summer the tugs Faithful and...