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Oh, brother! What a race the Lindo’s to Lindo’s 10k turned out to be this year as two sets of siblings filled the first four positions to confuse spectators into thinking they were seeing double.
First across the line was Lamont Marshall with older b...
DATE: Mar 12, 2007
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Several of the ever-expanding elite club of dollar billionaires published by Forbes magazine yesterday have links with Bermuda.
With a net worth of $11.8 billion, 70-year-old former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi is 51st wealthiest on the l...
DATE: Mar 09, 2007
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A plan to split the Bermuda-headquartered $63 billion conglomerate Tyco International into three separate companies later this year remains on track after two high-level meetings on the Island.
And if anyone doubts the value of Tyco chairman’s Edward...
DATE: Mar 09, 2007
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Tyco was rocked by the $600-million theft case brought against its former chairman and chief executive Dennis Kozlowski and former chief financial officer Mark Swartz that eventually led to their jailing in the US after a 2005 re-trial.
Learning from...
DATE: Mar 09, 2007
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Butterfield Bank has now opened its first fund service office in North America with a dozen employees.
By the end of this year the new office in downtown Halifax is expected to employ 40 people for Butterfield Fund Services and may eventually may hav...
DATE: Mar 09, 2007
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Tyco shareholders have agreed a reverse one-for-four stock split ahead of the company’s planned break-up into three publicly traded companies.
The move will have the effect of reducing the number of common shares issued and outstanding at present fro...
DATE: Mar 09, 2007
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Shared technology tracks rats, mosquitoes and even criminals in Bermuda. It also keeps record of building maintenance and tax valuation and sharing crucial information with security services guarding the Island’s border entry points.
That at its simp...
DATE: Mar 08, 2007
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Twelve million dollars worth of shares in Butterfield Bank were traded on the Royal Gazette / Bermuda Stock Exchange yesterday in the wake of the local bank being given a favourable upgrading of its financial strength by rating agency Moody’s.
The ba...
DATE: Mar 08, 2007
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Butterfield Bank has received improved ratings from financial research and analysis specialists Moody’s, underlining its status as the Island’s leading local bank.
Its long-term deposit rating has gone up three notches from a “upper-medium” low risk ...
DATE: Mar 07, 2007
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Bacardi will have no problem raising the estimated $5 billion needed to buy the Swedish makers of the world-famous Absolut Vodka brand.
The Bermuda-based company has been in contact with the government of Sweden to express interest in acquiring the s...
DATE: Mar 07, 2007
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