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Stores took fewer dollars at the till for a fifth successive month, prompting one industry leader to describe retail as "an industry in crisis".
Retail sales fell 4.5 percent in June, as shoppers continued to tighten their purse strings, figures rele...
DATE: Aug 14, 2009
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The annual rate of inflation fell to 1.2 percent in June — its lowest point for at least 32 years — according to Government figures released yesterday.
The figure marked a slight drop from the May rate of 1.4 percent, which was the lowest rate since ...
DATE: Aug 07, 2009
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Those with savings or investments with the British American Insurance Company (BAICO) have been warned they face losing some of their money, after winding-up proceedings began against the insurer's Bermuda branch yesterday.
But BAICO's health insuran...
DATE: Aug 04, 2009
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Those with savings or investments with the British American Insurance Company (BAICO) have been warned they face losing some of their money, after winding-up proceedings began against the insurer’s Bermuda branch.
But BAICO’s health insurance policyh...
DATE: Aug 03, 2009
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Validus Holdings Ltd. has agreed to buy fellow Bermuda reinsurer IPC Holdings Ltd. in a deal worth $1.7 billion.
The two companies announced that their boards of directors has agreed on a sweetened deal, which saw Validus double the cash payment it i...
DATE: Jul 09, 2009
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Administrators working on the winding up of Bermuda investment firm Emerald Financial Group Ltd. are "hopeful" that many investors will get their money back, it emerged yesterday.
Bermuda Police arrested a 45-year-old woman last Thursday — reportedly...
DATE: Jul 04, 2009
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Bermuda investment firm Emerald Financial Group is facing a winding-up action, after financial regulator the Bermuda Monetary Authority took enforcement action yesterday.
The news came after the arrest of a 45-year-old woman yesterday in connection w...
DATE: Jul 02, 2009
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The Bermuda Monetary Authority today initiated winding-up proceedings against local investment firm Emerald Financial Group (EFG).
This afternoon’s announcement by the financial regulator followed the arrest of a 45-year-old woman this morning in con...
DATE: Jul 01, 2009
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The four Chinese Muslims released from Guantánamo Bay to come to Bermuda say they had never even heard of al Qaeda until they arrived at the US prison camp where they have been confined for the past seven years.
And in an interview with The Royal Gaz...
DATE: Jun 13, 2009
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Bermuda is no longer officially a "tax haven" in the eyes of the international community.
Yesterday the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) moved Bermuda off its "grey list" after the Island signed its 12th tax information ex...
DATE: Jun 09, 2009
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