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Premier Meets With India’s Largest Travel Company
During the course of the Premier’s recent visit to India, he had the oppportunity to meet with KUONI India, the largest travel company in the South Asian country, with talks centering on the benefits of targeting potential Indian tourists on the Atlantic east coast. KUONI has a sales turnover of $450 million, and employs 2700 men and women across... Read more of this article
Commonwealth Athletes, Premier & Minister
Premier Dr Ewart Brown, along with Sports Minister Glenn Blakeney met up with the top local athletes who are presently competing in the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India. The Premier and Minister Blakeney are attending the Commonwealth Games after participating in the signing ceremony of the Tax Information Exchange Agreement (TIEA) with the Government... Read more of this article
Premier & Minister In India: Sign Tax Agreement
Bermuda today [Oct 7] signed a Tax Information Exchange Agreement (TIEA) with India. The signing of the agreement took place at a ceremony at Ministry of Finance in New Delhi, India and was attended by Premier Dr Ewart Brown and Minister of State for Finance, Mr. S.S. Palanimanickam, who signed the agreement for India. Also in attendance was the Minister... Read more of this article
Commonwealth Team Named: 14 Athletes
Fourteen of the island’s top athletes will fly the flag for Bermuda at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India next month. The Bermuda Olympic Committee just announced the Commonwealth Games Bermuda team this evening [Sept 16], selecting 11 men and 3 women who will participate in 5 of the 17 sports at the Games. Bermuda’s Commonwealth... Read more of this article
Premier Announces He Will Fund India Trip
Premier Dr Ewart Brown announced last evening [Sept 9] that he will be “personally covering the costs associated with his October visit to India.” It is not clear what prompted the decision or announcement, however the Premier said, “Wanda and I have reconsidered and decided that this will be a personally funded trip. Simply put, we... Read more of this article
Premier To Attend Commonwealth Games in India
[Updated] Premier Dr Ewart Brown is set to visit India for approximately three days, during which he will attend the 2010 Commonwealth Games, which will be held in Delhi between October 3rd to October 14th. In addition to attending the Games, Dr Brown will also conduct Bermuda related business on the subcontinent. No stranger to the Commonwealth Games,... Read more of this article
Premier Meets With Indian Delegation
Last week Premier Dr Ewart Brown met with members of a delegation from India that visited Bermuda last week. Pictured below left to right are Ravi Kotti [Senior Director of American Solutions Inc, a global computer software services provider] Dr. Brown and head of the Indian Delegation Ven Subramanian. Related Stories 56 BOM Volunteers, Students... Read more of this article
Indian Music Videos: Bermuda Backdrops
In addition to Bermuda being the backdrop for part of a Bollywood movie, the island will also be the setting for two Indian music videos. The filmmakers of the movie “Veera” have said they would like to shoot 2 song sequences in Bermuda, and the scenes from the Bermuda portion will also effectively be used as music videos. The crew of approximately 25... Read more of this article
Premier Brown’s Statements: India and Russia
Below follows the full Ministerial Statements from Premier Dr. Ewart Brown on the Indian movie to be filmed in Bermuda, and his recent trip to Russia to deal with matters relating to Bermuda’s Aircraft Registry from the debate on the House of Assembly today [May 14]: Statement on the Indian movie to be partly-filmed in Bermuda: Mr. Speaker, honourable... Read more of this article
Bollywood Movie To Be Filmed in Bermuda
Part of a Bollywood movie will be filmed in Bermuda in September 2010. The Indian film market, although somewhat unknown in Western society, is one of the largest in the world. As a point of comparison, in 2002 Bollywood sold 3.6 billion tickets and had total revenues [theatre tickets, DVDs, television etc] of $1.3 billion, whereas Hollywood films sold... Read more of this article
Next Wed: Seminar on Indian Film School
There will be a seminar to learn more about an Indian filmmaking school at the Bermuda College this coming Wednesday, May 6th at 6pm. The school, Whistling Woods International (WWI), had struck a prior deal with the Premier of Bermuda, which will facilitate local students studying in Mumbai, India. On February 7, 2010 the school, located in Mumbai,... Read more of this article
