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People can have their say on future plans for Bermuda’s shipping channels at town hall meetings next month. Transport Minister Terry Lister has today announced that a series of public meetings will be held to share the findings of Government’s shippi...

September 22, 2011 Dear Sir, On my recent return to this lovely island, I was rather taken aback to see the size of vehicles now being registered as private cars. It was bad enough before I left six years ago with vehicles like Toyota RAV 4s and Mit...

The union representing Air Canada flight attendants has voted to go in strike, the airline said today. In an update to travel agents, the company said: "Air Canada has received a strike notice from the Canadian Union of Public Employees which represe...

September 9, 2011 Dear Sir, Can you shed some light on the fact that the legal speed limit in Bermuda is 35kph on the wide open roads and that the same traffic signs are used in a school zone? In most countries, school zones have markedly decreased...

OSLO (Bloomberg) Bermuda-based Frontline Ltd, the world’s largest operator of supertankers, jumped 29 percent in two days in Oslo, its biggest such gain since May 2009, on speculation some investors are closing bets on share-price declines. The share...

Bermuda-based Ship Finance International Ltd posted a profit of $41.5 million or 52 cents per share during the second quarter. That included an accrued profit share of $200,000 over that period compared to $2.3 million in the first quarter of this ye...

LONDON (Bloomberg) Frontline Ltd, the world’s biggest operator of supertankers, reported a worse-than-expected second quarter loss and said the “weak trend” would persist, while the time for acquisitions “has moved closer.” “The situation has, of cou...

Bermuda-based tanker operator Nordic American Tankers Ltd added to its fleet yesterday when it took delivery of the Nordic Breeze,a suezmax newbuilding tanker of 158,000 deadweight tons. The new vessel was built at Samsung Heavy Industries Co, Ltd, S...

A British charity worker whose Dominican Republic-bound plane was diverted here after she bit flight attendants has been made to pay for the crime. Carol Close was on a Thomson Airlines flight from Manchester, England when she attacked two flight att...