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US companies that make billions of dollars from patents and other intellectual property held offshore would be eligible for a special 12.5 per cent tax rate on those earnings under the Senate tax plan. That’s a potential “gold mine” for some multinat...

This is the second in a series of pieces offering a critique of proposals made by the Consultative Immigration Reform Working Group The Working Group made a number of recommendations in respect of addressing issues relating to long-term residents of...

Disaster brings out the writer in Shawn Murphy. After 9/11, the American put pen to paper protesting in the local media the call for violent revenge against his country’s enemies. In March, a week after a family member suffered a stroke, he started w...

Sylvia Hayward-Harris was 8 when a family friend started molesting her. He stopped four years later, when she developed breasts. “I think he preferred little girls,” said Ms Hayward-Harris, an ordained pastor and counsellor. Two brothers of one fr...

Opportunities. If you look forward with optimism then you will always identify great opportunities. The future is always ahead of you and what you do with that is up to each one of us. I always recall the story that back in about 1900 the head of th...

On the face of it, having representatives of Airbnb and Expedia speak at a hotel investment conference was unusual. Indeed, the first question asked of them at the Caribbean Hotel Investment Conference and Operations Summit was how they respond to ac...

Dear Sir, On Friday, November 3, 2017, an opinion piece appeared in The Royal Gazette written by Robert Pires. The article is factually incorrect and logically inconsistent, but I will attempt a response. Immigration issues, no matter where they are...

Dear Sir, Armistice Day, Remembrance Day, Veterans Day — what is the meaning of this day when we should be allowed to honour our loved ones who sacrificed so many years of their lives or their life? I have had the privilege of marching in the Remembr...

Gays are three times more likely to suffer with addiction problems according to the Reverend Joe Amico, a leading specialist who believes the LGBTQ community in Bermuda is not helped by a lack of facilities to deal with the problem. “There are virtua...

A career in hospitality was never part of the plan, according to the new chairman of the Bermuda Tourism Authority. Paul Telford said: “The one thing I knew for sure is that I didn’t want to work in a hotel when I graduated from high school.” At 18...

Dear Sir, The Bermuda Casino Gaming Commission is an independent body set up to oversee gaming regulations. Richard Schuetz and Alan Dunch have done an excellent job to date; so good a job in fact that Jamahl Simmons now wants to eliminate Mr Dunch b...

The chance for the public to have a say on the proposal for quad bike tours on protected land in the West End passed yesterday. However, the Bermuda Environmental Sustainability Task Force questioned whether all submissions had been received by the D...