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Economist and Opposition Senator E.T. (Bob) Richards says the highest inflation figure in 16 years may just be a "blip" — but that inflation in the construction and property sectors are the real causes for economic concern.
Government announced this ...
DATE: Jul 09, 2007
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A report on the reinsurance industry's July 1 contract renewals by global insurance broker Willis Group Holdings shows that rates are generally in steep decline.
A combination of factors, including an abundance of capital after a benign 2006 and incr...
DATE: Jul 05, 2007
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Butterfield Bank is offering investors access to a top private equity fund by committing a fraction of the multi-million-dollar investment that would be necessary to invest directly.
Curtis Dickinson, whose promotion to the position of senior vice-pr...
DATE: Jul 04, 2007
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Chamber of Commerce president Philip Barnett has suggested it's time for tax cuts after Government saw its payroll tax receipts soar to $78 million in the first quarter of this year — up almost 21 percent on the same period last year.
The figure is r...
DATE: Jul 03, 2007
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Bermuda Aviation Services Ltd. yesterday announced a 19 percent rise in full-year net income, which rose to a company record $3.4 million.
BAS chairman Michael Darling described the year as "extremely successful" and he added that the securing of a m...
DATE: Jul 03, 2007
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Bermuda Press Holdings Ltd. on Friday reported net income of almost $1.2 million for the six-month period ended March 31.
The figure represented a increase of 6.7 percent compared to the same period last year, when The Royal Gazette's parent company ...
DATE: Jul 02, 2007
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Belco has announced significant year-on-year increases in its sale of electricity and gas during the second quarter.
The company's quarterly report said total kilowatt sales of electricity through May were 3.53 percent ahead of the same period in 200...
DATE: Jun 29, 2007
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Bermuda Aviation Services Ltd. is suing the Government over what the company says is a breach of its exclusive rights to provide private jet services at L.F. Wade International Airport.
The company, together with its subsidiary Aircraft Services, has...
DATE: Jun 29, 2007
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International business can be reassured by one thing to come out of the furore surrounding the leaked police documents on the Bermuda Housing Corporation scandal investigation — that the legal right of appeal to the highest court in Britain still ope...
DATE: Jun 28, 2007
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Bermudians' fuel supply is safe — despite the withdrawal from Venezuela of two major oil companies this week.
That was the word yesterday from Esso Bermuda and Rubis Energy Bermuda, the Island's two distributors of fuel to gas stations.
On Tuesday, g...
DATE: Jun 28, 2007
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