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A record number of visitors came to Bermuda last year. Kevin Dallas, chief executive of the Bermuda Tourism Authority, revealed yesterday that almost 693,000 tourists visited the island in 2017, but he feels there is more work still to be done. He s...

Aspen posted a net loss of $184.9 million in the fourth quarter of last year — results described as “well below acceptable levels” by the insurer’s chief executive officer. The Bermudian-based company had warned last month that underwriting losses f...

Malcolm Butterfield is the new chief executive officer of the Bermuda Insurance Institute. The institute has also relocated to new offices within O’Hara House, home of XL Catlin, on Bermudiana Road. Mr Butterfield has insurance and reinsurance experi...

Shares of Butterfield Bank dropped by $1, or 2.5 per cent, to $39 after 6,047 traded on The Royal Gazette/BSX Index. Meanwhile, on the New York Stock Exchange, the bank’s shares were up 15 cents, or 0.38 per cent, at $39.52. The Royal Gazette/BSX Ind...

Bermuda was home to 739 active captive insurance companies as of the end of last year, according to financial-services regulator, the Bermuda Monetary Authority. The BMA said 17 new captives were registered in 2017, up from 13 in 2016. Jeremy Cox, t...

The heightened perception of a Russian threat to the West could have at least one positive consequence: The admission of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the European Union. But the massive rallies in Athens on Sunday, with at least 140,0...

Three people were injured in three accidents on North Shore Road, Hamilton Parish, over the past four days. The incidents were part of 11 crashes across the island between Friday and yesterday, which sparked a fresh call from police for drivers to co...

A Bermudian man and woman have been arrested at LF Wade Internationl Airport on suspicion of drugs importation. An investigation is under way by specialist police officers with help from Customs officers. The two, aged 54 and 47 respectively, were ar...

When my wife and I married in 2016, we had the wedding of our dreams. We each wore wedding dresses; our fathers walked us down the aisle, one after the other; and we danced to Sam Cooke’s We’re Having a Party at the end of the night, in a circle surr...

Rose Douglas longed to become a teacher but her father made his views clear — he did not believe in educating girls. It did not stop her from dreaming. As a teenager she started “pretend teaching” on Suffering Lane, the St George’s street she lived ...

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Blue Capital Reinsurance Holdings Ltd said it saw double-digit percentage rate increases during January renewals. Mike McGuire, the Bermudian company’s chairman and chief executive officer, said: “Following the significant industry losses experienced...