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Bermuda’s debt mountain is addressed in the Budget Statement as Bob Richards, the Minister of Finance, introduces increases in payroll tax, government fees and excise taxes on fuel, alcohol and tobacco.
Payroll tax increases to 15.5 per cent, with th...
DATE: Dec 31, 2016
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David Burt, the new Leader of the Progressive Labour Party, delivered a forceful Reply to the Throne Speech yesterday, charging the One Bermuda Alliance with failing in its 2012 electoral pledges, while vowing tighter governance and oversight to a re...
DATE: Nov 15, 2016
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Brexit, Britain’s controversial referendum decision to exit the European Union, was the “focal point” of Prime Minister Theresa May’s address at the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham, environment minister Cole Simons said.
Mr Simons, who at...
DATE: Oct 09, 2016
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By ordering Apple to pay $14.5 billion (13 billion euros) in back taxes to Ireland, the European Union has created a somewhat farcical situation. Ireland doesn’t want the money, which amounts to more than four months’ tax revenue for the small nation...
DATE: Sep 01, 2016
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There is an increasing sense of exasperation evident among the captains of Bermuda’s offshore industry.
The same irritation is also being expressed by employees of the sector’s local satellite businesses as well as by a growing number of professiona...
DATE: Aug 26, 2016
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This is the evolution of money market mutual funds, part two.
A little over two years ago, the US Securities and Exchange Commission adopted significant amendments to the rules that govern money market mutual funds under the US Investment Company Ac...
DATE: Aug 13, 2016
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Discussions of a possible British exit from the European Union often centre on how the move would affect Britain itself.
It’s only natural, since British voters are the ones who will make the decision, and they care mainly about their own country.
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DATE: Apr 25, 2016
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Europe is gearing up for a summer of discontent. There’s the British referendum on European Union membership, a simmering refugee crisis and an increasingly desperate European Central Bank.
Taken together, this list gives reason enough to be fearful...
DATE: Apr 13, 2016
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Shadow education minister Lovitta Foggo believes Bermuda’s education system should take precedence over a new airport or the America’s Cup in light of the damning school reorganisation report.
While Ms Foggo said she could not place the blame for the...
DATE: Feb 29, 2016
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Ours is not a time of robust self-confidence and national pride.
The prevailing mood is one of muted pessimism and concern; fatalism and resignation have largely replaced faith in ourselves and our country.
For decades the buoyant Bermudian self-imag...
DATE: Aug 12, 2015
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