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Bermuda to get female Deputy Governor

HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC -- Bermuda, Britain's most populous Overseas Territory (OT), is to get a female Deputy Governor who has served in the Pitcairn Islands, Britain's smallest OT, Government House announced on Thursday.
Governor George Fergusson announced career diplomat Ginny Silva will replace current Deputy Governor David Arkley in December.
Silva joined the Diplomatic Service in 1987 having worked previously for Leicestershire County Council and the UK Immigration Service.

Mission ends fact finding visit to Turks and Caicos Islands

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – A Caribbean Community (CARICOM) fact finding mission to the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) will present its findings and recommendations to regional leaders when they meet in Trinidad and Tobago next week. The mission, which was headed by Bahamas Foreign Affairs and Immigration Minister Frederick A. Mitchell was mandated by the regional leaders to review the situation in the Turks and Caicos Islands, following the return of parliamentary democracy last year.

Bermuda government accused of “sheer hardheadedness”

HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC -- The six-month-old One Bermuda Alliance (OBA) government has been accused of "sheer hardheadedness" by an independent legislator after it lost three votes in the last two parliamentary sittings. Former leader of the now defunct United Bermuda Party (UBP), Kim Swan, says government’s losing streak in the House of Assembly is a sign of a “lame duck” administration in a “precarious position”.

Bermuda to borrow $800 million to cover budget deficits

HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC -- Finance Minister Bob Richards announced on Thursday that his One Bermuda Alliance (OBA) government is to borrow up to US$800 million to cover budget deficits for the next three years.
Richards told the media that borrowing for the medium term in the current low interest rate environment would save the taxpayer millions of dollars in financing costs.
"We judge that we are in the last phase of the ultra low US dollar interest rate cycle," Richards said.

Premier rules out gay marriage in Bermuda

HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC - Premier Craig Cannonier has ruled out gay marriage in Bermuda, declaring “under my leadership, that will not happen”.
Cannonier, 50, who came to office in December, praised lawmakers for backing an amendment to human rights law in the House of Assembly last Friday which extended basic anti-discrimination protection to gay people.

Bermuda counts cost of overweight population

HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC - Health Minister Patricia Gordon-Pamplin says 70 per cent of Bermuda's adult population is overweight or obese and the island is counting the cost of additional strains being put on a struggling economy.
Gordon-Pamplin, who has just returned from a meeting of health ministers in Aruba on the impact of childhood obesity, said that Bermuda’s population will face chronic health issues from preventable, non-communicable diseases.
“The proportion of children who are overweight or obese has been growing,” she told legislators."

Police mum on media reports that theft charges have been dropped against former premier

GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands, CMC – Police say they will make no comment on reports that five charges of theft had been dropped against former premier McKeeva Bush. “The case against Mr. Bush is now in the courts system and the issues therein may be considered subjudice,” the police said in a brief statement. “It should also be noted that any decision made in relation to the charges and the framing of the indictments is a matter for the Director of Public Prosecutions Office,” it added.

Renewable Energy: World Invests $244 billion in 2012, Geographic Shift to Developing Countries

The sister publications, REN21’s Renewables 2013 Global Status Report and Frankfurt School – UNEP/BNEF’s Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment 2013 were launched June 12th, 2013.

Global demand for renewable energy continued to rise during 2011 and 2012, supplying an estimated 19% of global final energy consumption in 2011 (the latest year for which data are available), with a little less than half from traditional biomass.

Hopes of G8 tax avoidance breakthrough fading fast as Bermuda refuses to sign up to new rules

An international deal to crack down on secretive tax havens is in jeopardy after the British Crown Territory of Bermuda refused to sign up to new transparency rules. Tax avoidance had been placed top of the agenda for the G8 summit of world leaders meeting next week in Northern Ireland, and David Cameron has called Britain’s 10 overseas territories and crown dependencies to talks on the topic in London this Saturday.

Bermuda among Overseas Territories summoned to London for tax evasion talks

HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC -- Bermuda and other British Overseas Territories (OTs) -- including five Caribbean islands -- have been summoned to a London summit this month as Prime Minister David Cameron seeks more transparency to end what he calls the “scourge of tax evasion”. Cameron has warned Britain's OTs and Crown dependencies that he has made tax avoidance a priority of the G8 summit, which he is to host in Northern Ireland on June 17 and 18.

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