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History & Procedures: Queen’s Birthday Parade
[Written by Larry Burchall] Bermuda’s annual Queen’s Birthday Parade on Front Street has been happening for more than a hundred years. Until the late 1950’s, it took place in Bernard’s Park. Prior to the 1940’s, it happened at the Prospect field that has since been turned into the National Stadium. In 2010, the Ceremony is undertaken by the... Read more of this article
Police Weapons: Tasers, Guns, Grenades & More
[Written by Larry Burchall] The Bermuda Police have an arsenal of weapons ready to use. They range from the almost traditional police truncheons in the form of ‘ASP’ expanding batons up to weapons capable of firing up to 700 full metal jacketed bullets in a minute. - Armed Police conducting a raid in Pembroke - May 2010 - Published in the Official... Read more of this article
April’s Consumer Price Index
April’s Consumer Price Index [CPI] shows some interesting ups and downs. If you stayed away from lamb chops, pastas, and fresh fruit then your groceries should have gone up only 0.2 percent in April. Those items went up 5.0 percent, 3.8 percent, and 3.4 percent, respectively. There was a 0.5 percent rise in rents in rent-cotrolled properties,... Read more of this article
European Union Allies Itself With Bermuda
[Written by Larry Burchall] As reported in “The Hill”, on April 30, 2010, nine CEO’s of major US based Insurance providers wrote to the US Congress to express support for the Neal Bill and to urge Congress to take action to stop what they described as tax avoidance by foreign-owned insurance companies who strip their earnings into overseas tax... Read more of this article
Burchall Report: Bermuda’s Big Borrow
[Written by Larry Burchall] It has been reported that the Bermuda Government has hired HSBC Holdings plc. to arrange a series of bond investor meetings in Asia, Europe, the US and in Bermuda. Cbonds reported that investor meetings will start on Monday in Hong Kong, moving to Singapore, Los Angeles and Boston and end up in New York a week later. Should... Read more of this article
North Village Band: A Living Link To Slavery
[Written by Larry Burchall] In Bermuda, on Emancipation Day 1st August 1834, slavery ended. Twenty-three years later, on 29th June 1857, a group of men, all of them musicians and members of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows Alexandrina No. 1026 got together and formed the Alexandrina Band. These men were all black, and as Lodge members, probably... Read more of this article
Living Links: Alexandrina Hall & Swan Building
[written by Larry Burchall] Living Links appear in unexpected places. Standing on the hillside on the Court Street side of the House of Assembly grounds and looking east, you can see a living link between Bermuda’s heritage and past, and Bermuda’s present and future. On that hillside, looking east, the closest and biggest building that you see is... Read more of this article
UK Elections & Bermuda: A New Arithmetic
[written by Larry Burchall] Will Thursday’s national elections in the UK have an impact in Bermuda? They will. But not quite in the way that you might first think. At the outset, Britain’s Labour Party seemed set to win the larger number of Parliamentary seats while the Conservatives were expected to pick up the next largest group. The Liberal Democrats... Read more of this article
Burchall: Falling Wages & Rising Deductions
[Written by Larry Burchall] Yesterday, on a radio talk show, Mr Chris Furbert, President of the Bermuda Industrial Union, pointed out that thousands of members of the BIU have been severely impacted by the state of Bermuda’s slowed-down economy and the government’s decision to cut back on some government expenditure. In the BIU Hotel division, workers... Read more of this article
Burchall Report: I Am Bermudian
[Written by Larry Burchall] Sense of entitlement. Something, it seems, that Bermudians should and should not have. But what exactly is a sense of entitlement anyway? For me it is the sense that I have some thing, or a right to something because it is specially and intrinsically mine. It is mine in a way that is unique, not just to me individually,... Read more of this article
A Look at the Beretta Gun Charge
[written by Larry Burchall] In court this morning the fact that Sanchey Grant was charged with unlawful possession of a Beretta handgun sparked my interest. During my time in the military, I worked with the Connecticut State police and trained with them in Connecticut on one of their conversion courses to the Beretta. The Italian designed and manufactured... Read more of this article
Iceland Volcano Send Business to Bermuda?
[Written by Larry Burchall] Could Iceland’s exploding volcano send reinsurance business to Bermuda? As reported in today’s “The Scotsman”, Chris Yates, an aviation security analyst with Jane’s Information Group, said it was essential to protect the safety of airline passengers. “I can understand the anxiety of the airline industry,... Read more of this article
