U.S/Bermuda Legal Treaty Comes Into Force

The U.S/Bermuda Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty [MLAT] came into force today [Apr.12] when Premier Paula Cox and U.S. Consul General Grace Shelton exchanged instruments of ratification. Both countries had signed the MLAT on January 12, 2009, the U.S. Senate subsequently ratified the treaty, and President Barack Obama signed the Instrument for Ratification on January 6, [...]

1777: The US Navy & The Battle Of Wreck Hill

On August 14, 1775, a group of Bermudians led by Colonel Henry Tucker  collaborated with Benjamin Franklin and other patriots in the rebellious American colonies, coordinating the audacious theft of gunpowder from the British Magazine in St. George’s which was then shipped to George Washington’s Continental Army. In the immediate aftermath of Bermuda’s Gunpowder Plot, the British dispatched [...]

GM Cuts Support To The Heartland Institute

Citing its corporate stance that climate change is real, US auto manufacturer General Motors has announced its General Motors Foundation would no longer be funding the Heartland Institute just weeks after the Association of Bermuda Insurers & Reinsurers [ABIR] put distance between itself and the controversial free-market think tank’s position on anthropogenic global warming. The [...]

US Bill Focuses On Candidates’ Tax Haven Ties

US lawmakers and candidates would have to spell out any financial ties they might have to countries considered to be tax havens — including Bermuda — under a bill introduced by two Democrats in the Senate on yesterday [Mar 29]. The measure, seen by some on Capitol Hill as a jab at Republican presidential candidate [...]

Video: Voluntary Visitors Exchange Programme

Yesterday [Mar.22], the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, Patrice Minors, hosted a joint press conference with US Consul General Grace Shelton to highlight the Voluntary Visitors Exchange [VolVis] Programme, a partnership workforce initiative between Government and the US Consulate via the US State Department. Minister Minors said, “This is a US State Department programme [...]

Former US Consul General Dies At 84

L. Ebersole Gaines Jr., US Consul General in Bermuda at a time when historic geopolitical changes ended the island’s strategic role as a Cold War military outpost, died in San Francisco last Thursday [Mar. 14]. He was 84. Mr. Gaines  [pictured] was appointed US Consul General to Bermuda in 1989 by President George H.W. Bush. [...]

Financial Centres ‘Will Tremble Before IRS’

An Irish economics lecturer says his country, Bermuda, the Netherlands and other “tax havens” which allow multinationals corporations to shift profits through their financial systems will almost certainly be targeted if US President Barack Obama wins re-election in November. Writing in the “Irish Independent” today [Mar.6], University of Limerick lecturer Steve Kinsella says international financial centres [...]

Museum To Host War Of 1812 Conference

Commemorating the 200th Anniversary of the Anglo-American War of 1812, an upcoming conference will examine Bermuda’s vital role during this conflict. The international Naval Dockyards Society and the National Museum of Bermuda are jointly hosting the conference — titled “Bermuda Dockyard and the War of 1812″ –from Thursday, June 7 until Tuesday, June 12 Bermuda [...]

Exhibit Fetes Island’s Presidential Ties

The opening reception for the US Consulate photographic exhibit “Between Friends: 65 Years of Bermudian-American Diplomatic Relations” took place last night [Mar 1.] at the Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art in the Botanical Gardens. The exhibit, which will run through March 14, consists of 26 photographs of US presidential visits to Bermuda, beginning with President [...]

White House: ‘Stop Rewarding Tax Havens’

The Obama administration today [Feb.22] took aim at so-called corporate tax havens including Bermuda in a proposed overhaul of the US corporate tax system which would lower the tax rate for companies and try to encourage job creation in the United States. In a newly released report, US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner expressed disdain for [...]

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