Archive for January 6th, 2012

Accident Sends Rider To Hospital

[Updated] At approximately 9:00pm this evening [Jan.6], emergency services responded to a report of an accident in Warwick. It appears there was a collision between a motorcycle and a car on Billy Goat Hill with the rider of the cycle sustaining injuries. Bermuda Fire Service personnel tended to the injured person until the ambulance arrived and transported... Read more of this article

18 Month Sentence For Break-In

48-year-old Ricardo Tucker, said to be of no fixed abode, was this morning [Jan.6] sentenced to 18 months in prison to be followed by two years on probation. Before sentencing him, Senior Magistrate Archie Warner told Mr Tucker that his record showed that he had a long history of trespassing and breaking into other people’s houses. The facts of this... Read more of this article

Island Fails To Make Cut In Rankings

Bermuda has been knocked off HSBC’s annual ranking of the world’s friendliest countries by expatriate workers because it received too few votes in 2011. Last year Bermuda was second – just behind Canada and a few votes ahead of South Africa — in the international bank’s survey of thousands of global expatriate workers. HSBC’s... Read more of this article

Man Arrested For DUI After Accident

Around 7pm last night [Jan.5] police responded to two-car accident on Berry Hill Road near the junction with Point Finger Road in Paget. There were no injuries reported. “One of the drivers, a 51 year old Warwick man, was arrested at the scene on suspicion of impaired driving,” said a police spokesperson. “He subsequently failed... Read more of this article

Video: Upcoming Island Folklife Series

Throughout 2011 Bermuda’s Somers Isle Productions teamed with the Department of Community and Cultural Affairs for an ongoing film project documenting Bermuda’s rich cultural heritage. The result of this partnership — the upcoming “Bermuda Folklife Documentary Series” — explores the lives and work of the men and women... Read more of this article

Bermuda Prosecutor Gets Cayman Post

Bermuda Crown Counsel Kirsty-Ann Gunn is leaving for the Cayman Islands where she is the newest permanent Magistrate that British Caribbean territory’s Summary Court. Mrs. Gunn has been a Crown Counsel [Specialist] with the Government of Bermuda since September 2010. She will formally take up the Cayman post on 16 April. Previously Mrs. Gunn served... Read more of this article

Teekay Corporation Declares Dividend

Bermuda’s Teekay Corporation announced that its board of directors has declared a cash dividend on its common stock of $0.31625 per share, payable on January 31, 2012 to all shareholders of record as at January 20, 2012. Based in Hamilton Teekay Corporation provides a comprehensive set of marine services to the world’s leading oil and gas... Read more of this article

Sea Level Rise Drove Out Albatross

Researchers who unearthed the first fossilised breeding colony of albatrosses in Bermuda in 2003 concluded a massive jump in sea level — to more than 65 feet above its current height — drove the birds out 400,000 years ago. No albatrosses live in Bermuda today or anywhere else in the North Atlantic. After the Bermuda colony was discovered... Read more of this article

AXIS Capital Appoints David Smith

Bermuda-based AXIS Capital Holdings Limited today [Jan. 6] announced that it has appointed David Smith as CEO and Country Manager of Australian Operations. He is based in Sydney and reports to Mark Gregory, CEO International Division, AXIS Insurance, who welcomed Mr. Smith to AXIS, and noted that he “has over 30 years experience in the financial services... Read more of this article

Sirius Acquires Loss Reserve Portfolio

Sirius International Insurance Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of Bermuda’s White Mountains Insurance Group, announced today [Jan. 6] that it had acquired the runoff loss reserve portfolio of Old Lyme Insurance Company Ltd. Bermuda reinsurer Old Lyme has been in runoff since 2008. Old Lyme loss reserves of approximately $23 million were transferred... Read more of this article

Newport-Bermuda Veteran Dies At 90

Newport-Bermuda veteran Sumner [Huey] Long — who established a course record for the race — has died at the age of 90. The international yachtsman, shipping executive, and winner of many of the world’s most challenging and dangerous ocean races, died of lymphoma on December 4. Creating a succession of hi-tech racing sailboats named... Read more of this article

Video: Premier Cox On UK Relations

Premier Paula Cox held a press conference yesterday [Jan.5] to discuss Bermuda’s submission for the 2012 White Paper on Overseas Territories that will set out the UK Government’s approach to the Overseas Territories The submission proposed a number of things including; providing Bermuda with direct engagement to the UK Parliament; transfer of prisoners... Read more of this article