rival Gary Moreno since the latter's arrival just over a year ago.

But things got a little out of hand at Tuesday's press conference on the taxi industry at the BIU's HQ with the pair at each other almost from the off, butting into each other's questions and refusing to give way.

And the pair wasted no time continuing their feud once the cameras were off with Ms Wilson demanding: "Just what is your problem?'' BIU boss Derrick Burgess and hotels head John Harvey , along with a host of amused cameramen, looked on as the pair continued their public spat with Mr.

Moreno inquiring whether Ms Wilson -- who used to work for the BIU -- thought she was in charge of the press conference.

Sadly Ms Wilson immediately took the argument into the gutter by saying that her TV colleague was a guest in her country and was welcome to leave.

Her Trinidadian counterpart then said that if the situation were reversed she would be treated with a great deal more respect.

He reinforced his argument, and won the row hands down according to Hester's spy, by tapping at a poster on the rostrum beneath a now embarrassed looking Mr. Burgess and pointing out that labour hero Dr. E.F. Gordon himself was from Trinidad -- something the less than fraternal Ms Wilson seemed to have overlooked.

Alas, Mr. Moreno then lost brownie points by turning on Hester's source and demanding that the embarrassing confrontation be kept out of the Daily -- a bit rich coming from a news reporter Hester thinks. We'll bear it in mind Gary.

Being a canny gal who likes to make more than the odd buck or two, Hester is a keen watcher of the stock market and always on the look out for a hot tip.

So when she read an advert placed in The Royal Gazette and the Bermuda Sun by the Bermuda Commercial Bank, she was about to call her broker and shout `buy'.

But caution thankfully won the day. The advert had Mr. John Deuss -- owner, chairman, acting managing director and commonly known as God or the Creator by his employees -- telling a member of staff how great it was she had been given 500 shares in the company as a prize for being `Employee of the Year'.

The Dutch biz-wiz went on to speculate -- a thing me thinks is not allowed by Monetary Authority or the Bermuda Stock Exchange even if he is God or the Creator -- that those stocks may be "worth approximately $3,500 today but by the next millennium they may be worth $35,000''.

I think Mr. Deuss should get a slap on the wrist by the powers that be for getting the poor woman's hopes up. But worse than that... say he really meant they would be worth that in a 1,000 years. Not only would the poor woman not be here to enjoy her hard-earned cash, but Hester surely hopes in this time the value of the shares will go up more than a measly 10 percent. In fact Hester got out her calculator and worked out that in a thousand years, assuming inflation is steady at three percent, a dollar would be worth $4.2 septillion, and that the shares should be worth $14.6 septillion ($14,556,435,000,000,000,000,000,000). With those kind of figures, I think even the most cautious Wall Street analysts would be screaming SELL from the roof tops.