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The insurance industry is to Bermuda as air is to life, Premier Ewart Brown said after touring the RIMS Conference in New Orleans yesterday.
Speaking after visiting the Bermuda booth in the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center with a delegation that in...
DATE: May 02, 2007
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Cash registers around the Island are quieter than a year ago, with the latest retail figures showing a four percent fall in the volume of sales once February's 2.2 percent rate of inflation is factored in.
Even without the adjustment for inflation, s...
DATE: May 02, 2007
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Premier Dr Ewart Brown was so impressed by the Bermuda booth at RIMS that he asked if the Ministry of Tourism could borrow it for use at two major international tourism conferences.
The new booth, fashioned in a Bermuda architectural style, has caugh...
DATE: May 02, 2007
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NEW YORK (AP) — Dow Jones & Co., publisher of The Wall Street Journal, said yesterday it received an unsolicited bid from Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. to buy the company for $5 billion. The news sent its shares soaring and those of other newspaper com...
DATE: May 02, 2007
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LONDON (Bloomberg) — John Browne stepped down as chief executive officer of BP Plc three months earlier than planned after losing a legal battle to prevent the publication of claims he let a former boyfriend use company resources.BP, Europe's second-...
DATE: May 02, 2007
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A cafe empire is spreading across Hamilton.
In three short years, Holger Eiselt has gone from owning one cafe in the Washington Mall to having three outlets in prime locations around the city.
The latest is 'Buzz 2' inside the Hamilton Pharmacy on Pa...
DATE: May 02, 2007
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Bermuda Trust Company Ltd (as Trustee of the FB Perry Trust) vs Mr and Mrs Paul Traxel.
William Rudolph Benjamin Sr. vs William Benjamin Junior and Juris Law Chambers (A Firm).
Ian Peter Waddington vs Gilbert Joseph Lopes (t/a G.L. Construction).
In ...
DATE: May 02, 2007
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Bermuda-based reinsurer Lancashire Holdings Ltd. said yesterday first-quarter profit gained after the company saw premiums jump while it paid out less money to clients.
Net income for the three months ended March 31 rose to $87.9 million, or $0.43 a ...
DATE: May 02, 2007
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Ace Ltd. chief executive officer Evan Greenberg clashed with brokers’ bosses in a fierce debate over commissions during a showpiece lunchtime event at RIMS yesterday.
One of seven leading figures from the insurance industry taking part in the CEO Lea...
DATE: May 02, 2007
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A consortium of three Bermuda communication companies has entered a bid to win the right to install a new undersea telecoms cable linking the Island with the US.
A key member of the consortium said that, should it be given the right to go into direct...
DATE: May 02, 2007
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