Archive for October, 2012

Airline Cancellations Continue On Wednesday

[Updated] Hurricane Sandy continues to impact flights, with reports saying over 12,000 flights have been cancelled worldwide due to the storm. There are 10 Bermuda flights cancelled for Tuesday [Oct 30] thus far including Delta, US Airways, AirTran Airways, JetBlue Airways, United Airlines. For the latest news about Bermuda flights see Bernews.com/flights... Read more of this article

Kim Swan: ‘We Want To Be #1 Again’

[Written by UBP MP Kim Swan] Growing up in Bermuda and working in the hospitality industry, it was commonplace to tell our visitors that “Bermudians are the friendliest people in the world” but also believe it to be so. To see this Forbes survey which list Bermuda the 8th friendliest place behind Cayman (#1), USA, Canada and others suggest,... Read more of this article

Photos: Fire Safety Awareness Week Launched

Minister of National Security Wayne Perinchief joined officials at the Hamilton Fire Station on Monday [Oct 29] to officially launch Fire Safety Awareness Week. This year Bermuda Fire and Rescue Service is recognizing its Fire Safety Awareness Week from Monday, October 29 to Friday, November 2, 2011. The theme this year is “Have two ways out!”. Remarks... Read more of this article

Fozeia Rana-Fahy Promoted At MJM Ltd

Fozeia Rana-Fahy has become a Senior Associate of MJM with effect from 1 November 2012. Ms Rana-Fahy has a growing corporate/commercial litigation practice, including complex trust and private client litigation, employment, and mediation. Andrew Martin said on behalf of MJM: “Fozeia is a great asset to the firm. She has worked hard to help to expand... Read more of this article

BELCO’s Website Hacked, Back Online Now

[Updated] BELCO’s website has been temporarily shut down this morning [Oct 30] due to it being hacked, however there has been no impact on customer account information. The Company advised that their IT department is looking into the problem and apologized for the inconvenience. A statement said: “BELCO wishes to alert the public that its... Read more of this article

Sports Tourism Strategy To Be Implemented

Sports Tourism has been identified as the best potential high yield niche segment to boost occupancy in the shoulder season in Bermuda, it was announced at a press conference yesterday. A statement from the Ministry of Tourism said: “Sports Tourism is one of the ‘core’ tourism segments identified in the National Tourism Plan to 2022. A new... Read more of this article

Fairmont Hotels Hosting Afternoon Tea

Fairmont Hotels & Resorts will be holding its second annual Get Steeped with Fairmont programme this November. Expanded from a one-day celebration to a full month of festivi‘teas’, the 2012 programme is sure to impress with traditional afternoon tea services, fancy hat competitions, tea-infused cocktails and even a new, special tea blend. Throughout... Read more of this article

Hurricane Sandy Estimated To Cost $10 Billion

Catastrophe modelling firm EQECAT said initial economic damage estimate for Hurricane Sandy are expected to be around $10 billion dollars. “Damages to insured properties from Sandy will endure over several days, beginning now and extending into Wednesday as Sandy slows and persists over southern and central Pennsylvania,” a statement from... Read more of this article

Hurricane Threatens U.S. Internet Data Centers

[Updated] International media is reporting that Hurricane Sandy may affect data centers on the U.S. East Coast, and “damage to these server centers could potentially spark outages that would affect nearly everyone using the web.” The UK’s Express reports: “Massive companies like Google, Apple and Amazon host their servers in... Read more of this article

Bermuda Signs TIEA With Singapore & Brazil

[Updated] Today the Ministry of Finance announced the signing of a Tax Information Exchange Agreement [TIEA] with the Republic of Singapore. The signing took place at the Singapore High Commission in London. This TIEA solidifies Bermuda’s relationship within the Asian South Eastern Pacific region and allows for greater diversification of Bermuda’s... Read more of this article

PLP Annual Banquet To Be Held This Saturday

The Progressive Labour Party will be hosting their 45th Annual Delegates Conference Banquet this Saturday, November 3, at the Fairmont Southampton Hotel. A statement from the PLP said: “We’ll start with a cocktail reception, which will include the special Green Wave Drink, at 6pm and dinner will start at 7:30pm. The Big Keynote Speech... Read more of this article

Four People Injured, Two Separate Accidents

Four people were injured in two separate accidents yesterday [Oct 28]. Around 6:50am, there was two motorcycle collision on Middle Road in Paget near the junction with Valley Road. The rider of one of the motorcycles involved, a 17 year old Devonshire man as well as the rider of the other motorcycle believed to be a 48 year old Pembroke man and his... Read more of this article