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A last minute call has gone out to runners and walkers interested in taking part in the annual 5K event at St George’s this Sunday.
The Healthy Choice Weight Handicap 5K Road Race run and walk is a popular end of season event, combining a ‘race withi...
DATE: Jul 04, 2013
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Dark economic clouds that have shrouded global markets for the past several years are beginning to dissipate, according to two leading economists who spoke to business leaders in Bermuda yesterday.
And the improving forecast provides opportunities fo...
DATE: Jun 13, 2013
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Spectators at the Bermuda Day Half-Marathon this Friday should keep an eye out for bib number 76, because it will be worn by a runner who has competed in the race every year since 1973.
George Jones celebrated his 76th birthday last week and has been...
DATE: May 20, 2013
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It was an unexpected sight a two-seater couch trundling along the roads towed by two of the Island’s top runners.
Up ahead were 90 runners and walkers taking part in the ‘Sir’ Stanley Burgess 5K road race, and among them a team of 46 out to prove the...
DATE: May 15, 2013
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The pressure Bermuda has felt from the tightening of financial regulations by the US and Europe in the wake of the 2008 banking crisis and is likely to continue for a few more years.
That is the view of HSBC US economist Ryan Wang, who gave his asses...
DATE: Apr 24, 2013
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Two highly-placed figures in Bermuda’s financial sector gave their views of the global economy at the Capital G Private Wealth Conference.
Peter Hughes, group managing director of APEX Fund Services, said he believed the US economy was improving. He ...
DATE: Apr 16, 2013
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Bermuda’s unemployment rate has almost doubled in the past three years, new figures show.
At the end of 2012 the rate was eight percent, compared to 4.5 percent in 2009.
The effect of the Island’s economic contraction, currently entering into a fift...
DATE: Apr 13, 2013
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There are business opportunities for Bermuda in Mexico and elsewhere in Latin America, but the Island needs to make itself better known in the region.
That was the sentiment of former president of Mexico Felipe Calderón as he addressed the Capital G ...
DATE: Apr 12, 2013
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He has dealt with everything from an airport inundated with diverted transatlantic flights on 9/11 to a palm tree at an airline check-in desk.
Now it is departure time for Mike Osborn, the man who has been in charge of the terminals at LF Wade Intern...
DATE: Apr 05, 2013
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Bermuda National Limited, the financial services investment holding that owns Bermuda Commercial Bank, has entered into a sale and purchase agreement to acquire the holding company of JO Hambro Investment Management, from Credit Suisse.
The deal, whi...
DATE: Apr 05, 2013
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