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World number two Ramy Ashour has pulled out of next week's Endurance World Open with an ankle injury.
The absence of the 20-year-old rising star of squash rules out the eagerly anticipated showdown for the world number one ranking with his Egyptian c...
DATE: Nov 21, 2007
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The British Virgin Islands is preparing criminal charges against the Bermuda-registered IPOC Fund and is seeking to confiscate $40 million from the Fund.
The charges, detailed in an application to collect evidence that was filed at the US District Co...
DATE: Nov 19, 2007
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The British government is still considering changes to insurance industry tax rules to enable UK companies to compete better with rivals in low-tax jurisdictions like Bermuda, Lloyd's of London chairman Peter Levene said.
Speaking to Business Insuran...
DATE: Nov 15, 2007
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The world is hurtling head-long towards an energy crisis so severe that major economies will be under threat of collapse and the resulting tensions could spark a global war in the next decade.
The graphic warning comes from Matthew Simmons, a self-ta...
DATE: Nov 08, 2007
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Bermuda's inflation rate remained in the four percent and over bracket for the fourth successive month in August, the Government announced yesterday.
Consumers paid 4.0 percent more for typical household goods and services in August this year than th...
DATE: Oct 04, 2007
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Bermuda's Malcolm Smith finished second in the Sunfish World Championships this week.
Only champion Sebastian Mera, of the Dominican Republic, in the 100-boat regatta, managed to better Smith, a three-time world champion who has finished runner-up fo...
DATE: Aug 25, 2007
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Bermuda's top golfer Michael Sims still had a chance of making the cut in the Xerox Classic Nationwide Tour event yesterday when play was suspended because of inclement weather, with Sims still having one hole to play.
But Sims, who was three-over pa...
DATE: Aug 18, 2007
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Premier Ewart Brown last night said he was rooting for Tiger Woods to win the PGA Championship this weekend to earn a place in October's Grand Slam of Golf in Bermuda.
Dr. Brown was speaking from the Southern Hills Country Club course in Tulsa, Oklah...
DATE: Aug 11, 2007
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The noise and fumes produced by the more than 20,000 mopeds and motorcycles on Bermuda's roads could become a thing of the past if Hugh Watlington's idea catches on.
Mr. Watlington rides a bike propelled by an electric motor. It looks pretty much lik...
DATE: Jul 31, 2007
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Bermuda insurance giant Ace Ltd. says it is far better prepared for meeting claims from a hurricane season of above-normal intensity than it was before Hurricane Katrina.
Ace's chief financial officer Phil Bancroft said if the 2005 storm scenario ¿ w...
DATE: Jul 26, 2007
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