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Bermuda’s balance of payment surplus jumped an astonishing $347 million last year to reach $901m, with big rises in income from travel, business services investment income and employee salaries more than offsetting a near doubling of the deficit in t...
DATE: Apr 05, 2007
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Latin America and the Caribbean are the latest markets opening up to BF&M Life Insurance Company as it looks beyond the Island’s shores for revenue growth.
It has just made an agreement with International Reinsurance Services (IRM) to underwrite, pro...
DATE: Apr 04, 2007
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A company that claims it was targeted by an alleged James Bond-style corporate espionage mission in Bermuda has lost its appeal to fight through Russian court rooms for a $1.5 billion disputed stake in Russian telecoms company MegaFon.
In a ruling by...
DATE: Apr 04, 2007
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Famous men’s magazine Penthouse has to be one of the more unusual publications for Gosling’s Rum and Bermuda’s national drink Dark ‘n Stormy to appear in.
Alongside soft-porn photographs in the April edition is a full page article paying homage to Be...
DATE: Apr 04, 2007
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An increase in gas station pump prices and more expensive airfares were key to sending Bermuda’s monthly inflation rate to 3.1 percent, up from January’s 2.8 percent.
The Island’s inflation rate is higher than the US and Canada, where it is 2.4 perce...
DATE: Apr 03, 2007
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A new internet gadget being introduced to Bermuda by CellularOne during the next few weeks will allow customers to go down to the beach and create their own internet “hotspot” to access the web — along with any number of friends who happen to bring t...
DATE: Apr 03, 2007
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Small-time entrepreneurs can get their first taste of buying and selling with the creation of a monthly upscale flea market at a church hall in Smith's.
The first market took place on Saturday with around a dozen stall holders selling items ranging f...
DATE: Apr 03, 2007
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Fallen flamboyant Austrian financier and former Bermuda resident Wolfgang Flottl has sold his $23-million Tucker’s Town home for $3m less than he paid for it.
The former investor who ran Ross Capital Markets in Bermuda is one of nine people currently...
DATE: Apr 02, 2007
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A new way for Bermudians to gain qualifications leading to careers within the shiny office block citadels of Hamilton’s financial quarter has been created by the Institute of Internal Auditors.
And for successful candidates who are awarded one of two...
DATE: Apr 02, 2007
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Almost exactly a year to the day that the first piles were positioned at the start of construction of an eight-storey condominium complex on Dundonald Street, a roof wetting ceremony has been conducted to show that it will be “job done” before the en...
DATE: Apr 02, 2007
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