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The Bermuda-based Ipoc International Growth Fund will today face charges of perverting the course of justice and furnishing false information in a British Virgin Islands (BVI) court.
Inspector Jefferson Knight, of the Royal Virgin Islands Police Forc...
DATE: Apr 23, 2008
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Bermudian electrical engineers are set to get a boost after the National Training Board (NTB) teamed up with Penn Foster College in the US to provide the Associate of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering Technology (EET).
The degree programme wil...
DATE: Apr 23, 2008
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The biggest name in photo software for many years has been Adobe's Photoshop. But, as more and more photos migrated online, Adobe became concerned that people would associate photo software less with its own locally installed programmes than with web...
DATE: Apr 23, 2008
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NEW York (Reuters) - Nabors Industries Ltd., the world's largest onshore drilling contractor, on Monday said its first-quarter profit fell 12 percent, hurt by weakness in its North American business, but the results beat Wall Street expectations and ...
DATE: Apr 23, 2008
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TechWeek 2008 was launched as Minister of Energy, Telecommunications and E-Commerce Terry Lister touched a flat screen for the official opening instead of cutting a ribbon.
Techweek was created to raise awareness of technology and its use in Bermuda...
DATE: Apr 22, 2008
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LONDON (Bloomberg) - Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling yesterday defended a tax increase for 5.3 million of the UK's lowest earners in the face of declining poll ratings and mounting opposition from lawmakers in the ruling Labour Party.
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DATE: Apr 22, 2008
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Tansportation and insurance were the sectors to be in on The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index (BSX) yesterday.
Stevedoring Services Ltd. and Argus Group Holdings Ltd. saw their share prices rise by $1 (16.7 percent) and 95 cents (5.9 percen...
DATE: Apr 22, 2008
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LONDON (Bloomberg) — Bermuda-based Golar LNG, the natural-gas tanker company whose chairman is Norwegian billionaire John Fredriksen, won a $450 million contract to store natural gas for Dubai.
The shipping line's 1977-built vessel, Golar Freeze, wil...
DATE: Apr 22, 2008
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Everest Re Group saw its profits plunge by 74 percent in the first quarter 2008 from $297.6 million to $77.9 million.
Gross premiums written were also down for the quarter at $877.5 million compared to $1.02 billion during the same period last year a...
DATE: Apr 22, 2008
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LONDON (AP) - The Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc. (RBS), which is looking to shore up its credit position amid the sub-prime crisis, said yesterday that it is considering a rights issue to raise more capital, a possibility it had previously been un...
DATE: Apr 22, 2008
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