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Weather and climate experts from across the globe descended on Bermuda to give insurance company executives the inside track on everything from hurricanes to bushfires and tornadoes.
The information could prove invaluable for insurance industry giant...
DATE: Oct 18, 2005
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A man left languishing in a Chinese prison for seven years as punishment for speaking up for the plight of the Communist country?s underclass will tell his story to Bermudians this week.
One message Ching ?Joseph? Shi wants to drive home is how influ...
DATE: Oct 18, 2005
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Devastating hurricane winds topping 160 miles-per-hour are likely to strike Bermuda at least once every 1,000 years.
According to predictive models, the Island could feel the force of a mega-power hurricane around once every millennium.
Hurricane exp...
DATE: Oct 18, 2005
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A justice minister in Canada has called for the authorities to speed up the immigration process to allow a Russian family currently stranded in Bermuda, permission to return to Nova Scotia.
The family decided to settle in the province in July 2004 af...
DATE: Oct 17, 2005
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Visitors to Bermuda are spending less dollars than in any of the previous three years.
The plummeting revenue might have been excused last year as the Island rebuilt its vacation appeal following the damage of Hurricane Fabian in 2003.
But the second...
DATE: Oct 17, 2005
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A record number of women took part in the eighth annual Partner Re 5K Run and Walk at the Botanical Gardens yesterday to raise awareness of heart disease amongst women.
A turnout of 775 entrants delighted organisers as a multitude of walkers and runn...
DATE: Oct 17, 2005
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If the camera never lies then Charles Zuill wants to know what has happened to his house and why it it has vanished from a new luxury resort brochure to be replaced by lush, verdant vegetation.
He has his suspicions. It obviously looks more aesthetic...
DATE: Oct 17, 2005
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The majority of dogs re-homed by the SPCA are a mix breed with pit bull or other dogs that are currently on the Island's "banned" importation list.
As a direct legacy of the boom in popularity ten years ago for fighting-breed and powerful dogs, most ...
DATE: Oct 17, 2005
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Giant logs washing up around the coast of Bermuda may be doing unseen damage to the coral reefs surrounding the Island.
Around a dozen logs have been reported either in shallow water or washed up on beaches during the past three weeks. The latest log...
DATE: Oct 14, 2005
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Bermuda's chief rat-catcher is using a mouse to sniff out the Island's rodents.
It is virtually impossible to know how many rats are living on the Island at any one moment but it runs into many thousands even by the most conservative estimate.
Howeve...
DATE: Oct 14, 2005
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