163 results returned for search: "tax reform commission AND " category "News"
Insurance is is becoming more entrepreneurial, and the winners are those who never stop learning. David Fox reports Advocated US tax reform could pose a threat to the lure of Bermuda as a tax-advantaged domicile. Conservative forces in the US are ta...
DATE: Mar 09, 1998
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Other funds will be applied to such varied items as improved communications, reserve constabulary allowance and overtime, as well as other allowances provided for under the Police Tribunal award in 1996. Two additional traffic wardens, whose time wil...
DATE: Feb 20, 1997
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Neletha Butterfield (PLP) picking up where she left off last week.
Sen. Butterfield said the Throne Speech saw the addition of more Government promises to those it had yet to fulfil.
"Don't make promises you can't keep,'' she warned.
She said while t...
DATE: Dec 05, 1996
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overall propserity of Bermuda, Finance Minister Grant Gibbons warned on Friday.
Dr. Gibbons, speaking on the final day of the Throne Speech debate in the House of Assembly, said there were various areas of international business which could be improv...
DATE: Nov 27, 1995
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Opposition Leader Frederick Wade set out a Progressive Labour Party legislative agenda on Friday as he described Government's Throne Speech as "remarkable...for its omissions.'' While attacking the Throne Speech on several fronts, Mr. Wade set out 1...
DATE: Nov 13, 1995
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the Green Paper appeared to lean towards Independence.
The committee which produced the paper did not explore the "status quo'', he said. This was because it was accepted Bermuda currently enjoyed a "sensible arrangement''.
Instead, the committee -- ...
DATE: Mar 22, 1995
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Mr. Frederick Wade set out his party's position on a wide range of Independence issues yesterday as debate began on the Green Paper.
Deputy Premier the Hon. Irving Pearman , who opened the "take note'' debate on the discussion paper, had "nothing to ...
DATE: Mar 18, 1995
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Part II observation: it maintains (Section 3. Appendix 1. page 15) that: "The Hospitality Industry has been de-Bermudianised to some extent between 1982 and 1991''. This observation is borne out by the number of complaints our Shadow Ministry conti...
DATE: Nov 17, 1994
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Plans to relax foreign exchange controls may include altering the foreign money purchase tax, Sen. Grant Gibbons UBP revealed in the Senate adjournment debate yesterday.
Sen. Gibbons was addressing an Opposition claim that Government's bid to lift fo...
DATE: Feb 10, 1994
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yesterday by calling the election "one of the most competitive and challenging'' the Country had seen.
Bermuda now faced moves towards a global market, and its location gave it less protection from rivals than in the past.
In tourism, the challenge w...
DATE: Nov 18, 1993
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