<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Bermuda</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/americas/caribbean/bermuda?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/bermuda</link><description>Bermuda</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[U.S. Will Tighten Passport Rules]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28188-2005Apr5.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/bermuda</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28188-2005Apr5.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/bermuda</guid><pubDate>Mon, 2 May 2005 20:10:48 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Under a proposed anti-terrorism strategy, millions of Americans would be required to show passports when returning from Canada, Mexico.]]></description><author> John Mintz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intelsat Loses Use of Satellite]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16676-2005Jan17.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/bermuda</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16676-2005Jan17.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/bermuda</guid><pubDate>Mon, 2 May 2005 20:10:48 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Global satellite operator Intelsat Ltd. has permanently lost one of its orbiting spacecraft because of an electrical failure, the latest threat to a $5 billion deal to sell the company, officials said Monday.<br> <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-The Washington Post</b></font>]]></description><author> Justin Blum</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Four Firms Buy Intelsat]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6449-2004Aug16.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/bermuda</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6449-2004Aug16.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/bermuda</guid><pubDate>Mon, 2 May 2005 20:10:48 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Intelsat Ltd., the pioneering commercial satellite company that connected the world through global television and telephone communications, announced Monday its sale to a group of private investors for $3 billion in cash. <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-The Washington Post</b></font>]]></description><author> Yuki Noguchi</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Linguist Charles Berlitz Dies; Wrote Books on Paranormal]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43247-2003Dec30.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/bermuda</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43247-2003Dec30.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/bermuda</guid><pubDate>Mon, 2 May 2005 20:10:48 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Charles Berlitz, 90, the eminent linguist who also wrote kooky and spooky bestsellers exploring the Bermuda Triangle, the lost continent of Atlantis and other paranormal activity, died Dec. 18 at a hospital in Tamarac, Fla. No cause of death was reported.]]></description><author> Adam Bernstein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bermuda's Rare Birds Get Concrete Token of Love]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19845-2003Nov9.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/bermuda</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19845-2003Nov9.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/bermuda</guid><pubDate>Mon, 2 May 2005 20:10:48 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[For aficionados of Bermuda's national bird, it is  always a thrill when the cahows make their autumnal return from the still-unidentified expanses of ocean where they summer. After all, Pterodroma cahow is a critically endangered species, with only about 70 mating pairs alive today.  But this year's arrival has been especially gratifying, because it came so close to being a bust.]]></description><author> Rick Weiss</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hurricane Fabian Pounds Bermuda]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33015-2003Sep5.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/bermuda</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33015-2003Sep5.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/bermuda</guid><pubDate>Mon, 2 May 2005 20:10:48 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The most ferocious hurricane to hit Bermuda in modern times slammed into the islands Friday, ripping off roofs, tearing up trees and sinking boats with winds gusting up to 150 mph.]]></description><author> Marc Kaufman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smithsonian's Mendel Peterson Dies]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56698-2003Aug27.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/bermuda</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56698-2003Aug27.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/bermuda</guid><pubDate>Mon, 2 May 2005 20:10:48 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Mendel L. Peterson, 85, a retired Smithsonian Institution curator whose specialties included underwater exploration and diving in the Caribbean to examine shipwrecks, died July 30 at his home in McLean. He had heart disease, diabetes and cancer.]]></description><author> Bart Barnes</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fiend in Gray]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50445-2003May28.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/bermuda</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50445-2003May28.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/bermuda</guid><pubDate>Mon, 2 May 2005 20:10:48 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Terrorists plots are as old as war itself -- or at least as old as the Civil War.]]></description><author> Jane Singer</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dissatisfied Investors Push Corporations to Reform]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57438-2003Mar19.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/bermuda</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57438-2003Mar19.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/bermuda</guid><pubDate>Mon, 2 May 2005 20:10:48 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[PEMBROKE, Bermuda -- In 1996, no board members bothered to show up for Tyco's annual meeting. The few shareholders who attended heard from just one man: chairman and chief executive L. Dennis Kozlowski. When one investor complained about not being able to question directors on the company's ferocious appetite for acquisitions, Kozlowski brushed him off.]]></description><author> Ben White</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.S. Probes Military's Use of Satellites]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16151-2002Dec5.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/bermuda</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16151-2002Dec5.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/bermuda</guid><pubDate>Mon, 2 May 2005 20:10:48 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The General Accounting Office is investigating the Defense Department's use of commercial satellites, after competitors complained that Washington-based Intelsat Ltd. has an unfair advantage in a growing market. <BR><FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-The Washington Post</B></FONT>]]></description><author> Renae Merle</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tax-Haven Firms Lobbying Hard Against Curbs]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57407-2002Sep23.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/bermuda</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57407-2002Sep23.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/bermuda</guid><pubDate>Mon, 2 May 2005 20:10:48 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[High-priced lobbyists for offshore firms may be succeeding in delaying or watering down laws designed to force the companies back into the U.S. corporate tax fold.]]></description><author> Jonathan Weisman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism Raining on Tax Paradise]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42032-2002Aug20.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/bermuda</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42032-2002Aug20.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/bermuda</guid><pubDate>Mon, 2 May 2005 20:10:48 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Corporations that once saw no downside to a paper relocation to Bermuda are now finding that patriotism does not fit well in the back seat, especially when politicians take notice.]]></description><author> Jonathan Weisman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Company Tax Havens Targeted]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2596-2002Jul25.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/bermuda</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2596-2002Jul25.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/bermuda</guid><pubDate>Mon, 2 May 2005 20:10:48 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[California's mammoth public employee and teacher pension funds should stop investing in U.S. companies that move their headquarters to offshore tax havens  such as Bermuda, the state treasurer  said Thursday.]]></description><author> Anitha Reddy</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[House Panel Targets U.S. Firms Using Foreign Tax Havens]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47002-2002Jul9.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/bermuda</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47002-2002Jul9.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/bermuda</guid><pubDate>Mon, 2 May 2005 20:10:48 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The House Appropriations Committee, adding its voice to the chorus in Congress calling for a crackdown on controversial business practices, yesterday voted to bar  the federal government from awarding contracts to U.S. companies that use foreign tax havens.]]></description><author> Dan Morgan</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uncle Sam Gets Shorted By the Bermuda Bye-Bye]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26340-2002Jul4.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/bermuda</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26340-2002Jul4.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/bermuda</guid><pubDate>Mon, 2 May 2005 20:10:48 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[If you want an example of how you can send tons of disclosure documents to Washington without explaining what's really going on, take a look at recent Securities and Exchange Commission filings by two big companies playing tax games: Stanley Works and Monday Ltd., the former PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting.]]></description><author> Allan Sloan</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is Moving Offshore Going Too Far?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19321-2002May28.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/bermuda</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19321-2002May28.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/bermuda</guid><pubDate>Mon, 2 May 2005 20:10:48 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Getting big accounting firms to change their willful ways is like trying to get teenagers to clean up their act in return for the keys to the family car. They'll promise anything but will revert to form at every opportunity. Just look at the much-ballyhooed proposals to "reform" accounting by separating auditing business from consulting. That's designed to remove the temptation for firms to go easy on auditing clients in the hope of attracting lucrative consulting work.]]></description><author> Allan Sloan</author></item></channel></rss>