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carrier Bermuda Telephone Co. (BTC), TeleBermuda International Ltd. has lowered rates in some time slots to the US, Canada, the UK and Ireland.
Competitor Cable & Wireless had previously cut its international phone rates a month ago by an average of ...
DATE: Jul 01, 1999
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The liquidators of the Telecheck Holdings Ltd. group of companies have stated they will pay a final dividend in the region of $910,000 to creditors.
The sum will bring the total paid out to creditors since 1993 to about $4.35 million of the $14 milli...
DATE: Jun 30, 1999
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The reference by Telecommunications Minister Renee Webb to a possible tax on Internet transactions sparked a debate here in Bermuda that's healthy. However I suggest it's probably not relevant.
Of course there are those who believe it will kill Bermu...
DATE: Jun 28, 1999
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Shareholders of Bermuda-registered American Safety Insurance Co. met at the Elbow Beach Hotel on Friday, concluding a week of business meetings.
While American Safety's operating headquarters are in Atlanta, it has continued to maintain its Bermuda c...
DATE: Jun 28, 1999
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The World E-Commerce Exchange is ready to put big bucks and expertise into the set up of an electronic network for doing business on the Internet, according to one of the founding principals, Oven Digital (www.oven.com).
The New York-based company ai...
DATE: Jun 22, 1999
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A London company jointly owned by Bermuda Fire & Marine Co. Ltd. and H S Weavers Underwriters was saved from liquidation in 1988 by the timely help of a top executive, a court heard yesterday.
Keith White, the former head of Bermuda Fire & Marine Ins...
DATE: Jun 17, 1999
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The proposed World E-Commerce Exchange is being set up by a group of heavyweight US investors, a press release stated yesterday.
Al Checchi, former chairman of Northwest Airlines and former Democratic candidate for governor of California last year, w...
DATE: Jun 15, 1999
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The information gap mirrors the wealth gap.
The IDC/World Times Information Society Index ranks countries as "information-rich'' economies. The US, with the largest chunk of the world's GNP and information technology spending comes in at number one, ...
DATE: Jun 14, 1999
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Telecommunication Commission chairman Ellen Lim and her husband William no longer have any involvement with the proposed World E-Commerce Exchange, a Press release stated yesterday.
The release stated that Mr. Lim had sold all his shareholdings in KO...
DATE: Jun 11, 1999
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Analysts at the Bank of Bermuda recommend an investment portfolio made up of 12 percent cash, 32 percent bonds and 56 percent equities.
"Both equity and bond weightings have been reduced given concerns regarding higher interest rates and global infla...
DATE: Jun 10, 1999
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