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related companies in the industry.
The contributory pension fund was set up in 1982 to provide retirement benefits for Bermuda Industrial Union (BIU) members at five construction companies.
Now firms that don't have a collective bargaining agreement ...
DATE: Dec 29, 1997
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The holiday season is a time to treat yourself, and others, to a few hi-tech toys. Size matters. Small is beautiful.
As usual retailers are predicting strong sales of video games. That's an easy fix for the whiz kid in the family. How about the other...
DATE: Dec 24, 1997
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difficult for unfriendly bidders to gain control of the company.
The board of directors announced yesterday it had set up a shareholders rights plan which would be put in effect only when someone or an institution had acquired 15 percent or more of t...
DATE: Dec 23, 1997
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Jardine Lloyd Thompson Plc, the world's eight largest insurance and reinsurance broker, has increased its stake in the Bermuda market.
The company announced Friday it had exercised an option to buy the remining 51 percent it doesn't already own in Be...
DATE: Dec 22, 1997
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expenditures were on track with figures projected in his last budget.
Provisional figures released by the Statistics Department this week showing Government expenditures jumped 15 percent in the first nine months of this year, while revenues increase...
DATE: Dec 18, 1997
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Boston-based Liberty Mutual Group has completed its purchase of Argus Insurance Co. Ltd. captive management subsidiary. The sale of Argus International Management Ltd. was completed last week.
Argus chief executive officer John Sainsbury said Liberty...
DATE: Dec 18, 1997
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Put a couple of bankers and communications experts with a vision together and what do you get? A craving for the Internet commerce. They plan to make Bermuda the financial hub of a worldwide trading network linking thousands of Chambers of Commerce -...
DATE: Dec 17, 1997
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The Bermuda economy continues to have a mixed performance, with tourism arrivals declining, and construction booming as third quarter statistics released yesterday show.
In the tourism sector, the total number of visitors fell marginally by 0.5 perce...
DATE: Dec 17, 1997
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Supermarket, which closed for business in October.
The supermarket had been on the brink of insolvency since 1995 when it racked up $600,000 in debts owed to 63 creditors. The supermarket's largest creditors -- wholesalers Winter Cookson Petty Ltd., ...
DATE: Dec 16, 1997
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Internet World is on this week in New York and some in the local industry are going down to check the phenomenal growth of the industry. I hope they'll come back and share their experience with us. For those of us who can't go you can get full text r...
DATE: Dec 10, 1997
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