Bermuda

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Bermuda has attacked a tax haven list drawn up by Brussels as “unjustified and baseless”, adding to criticism of the measure that forms part of the commission’s latest effort to crack down on avoidance.

company

- Longtail Aviation is a charter airline based in St. George's, Bermuda and was formed in August 1999.

• 荷蘭東南部林堡省一架波音747-400型貨機，周日起飛後不久引擎起火，金屬碎片散落地面，兩人受傷。涉事波音貨機配備4個引擎，它隸屬於英國百慕達長尾航空（Longtail Aviation），註冊編號為VQ-BWT，執飛LGT-5504航班，由馬斯特里赫特—阿亨機場（Maastricht Aachen Airport）前往美國紐約甘迺迪國際機場。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20210223/00180_003.html

- The Royal Gazette is a Bermudian English-language daily newspaper. Founded in 1828, it is Bermuda's only daily newspaper (not published on Sundays and public holidays).Its founder Donald MacPhee Lee, an immigrant to Bermuda from Prince Edward Island in Canada, served as editor until his death in 1883, whereupon it was operated by his son and later his daughter. Part commercial printer and part newspaper, the company acquired its Royal title serving as the 'King's Printer' in Bermuda and as publisher of official notices.

history

- columbus related

• The area referred to as the Bermuda Triangle, or Devil’s Triangle, covers about 500,000 square miles of ocean off the southeastern tip of Florida. When Christopher Columbus sailed through the area on his first voyage to the New World, he reported that a great flame of fire (probably a meteor) crashed into the sea one night and that a strange light appeared in the distance a few weeks later. He also wrote about erratic compass readings, perhaps because at that time a sliver of the Bermuda Triangle was one of the few places on Earth where true north and magnetic north lined up.https://www.history.com/topics/folklore/bermuda-triangle
•  ******* https://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/bdorsey1/41docs/01-col.html Christopher Columbus, Journal (1492) ... This present year of 1492, after Your Highnesses had brought to an end the war with the Moors who ruled in Europe and had concluded the war in the very great city of Granada, where this present year on the second day of the month of January I saw the Royal Standards of Your Highnesses placed by force of arms on the towers of the Alhambra, which is the fortress of the said city; and I saw the Moorish King come out to the gates of the city and kiss the Royal Hands of Your Highnesses and of the Prince my Lord; and later in that same month, because of the report that I had given to Your Highnesses about the lands of India and about a prince who is called "Grand Khan," which means in our Spanish language "King of Kings"; how, many times, he and his predecessors had sent to Rome to ask for men learned in our Holy Faith in order that they might instruct him in it and how the Holy Father had never provided them; and thus so many peoples were lost, falling into idolatry and accepting false and harmful religions; and Your Highnesses, as Catholic Christians and Princes, lovers and promoters of the Holy Christian Faith, and enemies of the false doctrine of Mahomet and of all idolatries and heresies, you thought of sending me, Christobal Colon, to the said regions of India to see the said princes and the peoples and the lands, and the characteristics of the lands and of everything and to see how their conversion to our Holy Faith might be undertaken. And you commanded that I should not go to the East by land, by which way it is customary to go, but by the route to the West, by which route we do not know for certain that anyone previously has passed. So, after having expelled all the Jews from all of your Kingdoms and Dominions, in the same month of January Your Highnesses commanded me to go, with a suitable fleet, to the said regions of India. And for that you granted me great favors and ennobled me so that from then on I might call myself "Don" and would be Grand Admiral of the Ocean Sea and Viceroy and perpetual Governor of all the islands and lands that I might discover and gain and [that] from now on might be discovered and gained in the Ocean Sea; and likewise my eldest son would succeed me and his son him, from generation to generation forever. And I left the city of Granada on the twelfth day of May in the same year of 1492 on Saturday, and I came to the town of Palos, which is a seaport, where I fitted out three vessels very well suited for such exploits; and I left the said port, very well provided with supplies and with many seamen, on the third day of August of the said year, on a Friday, half an hour before sunrise; and I took the route to Your Highnesses' Canary Islands, which are in the said Ocean Sea, in order from there to take my course and sail so far that I would reach the Indies and give Your Highnesses' message to those princes and thus carry out that which you had commanded me to do.

usa

- 當地傳媒周三報道，美軍相隔25年後，再次在島上派駐反潛巡邏機，進一步擴大反潛任務範圍，加強應對俄軍威脅。百慕達《皇家公報》引述美國海軍第二艦隊報道，由兩架P8反潛巡邏機與40名人員組成的美國海軍分遣隊，上月30日抵達百慕達支援在大西洋行動的其他美軍艦艇。這支分遣隊未來數月將以百慕達為基地，在區內執行偵察任務。第二艦隊發言人強調，海軍定期在大西洋演習及行動，以維持戰備狀態、改進戰術及支援國土防禦。1970年至1995年，美軍在百慕達設有一個海軍航空站，在島上部署反潛巡邏機，現時成為一個民用機場。美國軍事網站The War Zone認為，美軍再次在百慕達派駐反潛巡邏機，相信不是為重建海軍航空站鋪路，但今後很可能以輪換方式定期部署。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20201121/00180_018.html