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With the announcement last week by the Bank of Butterfield of a new mortgage product (95 percent financing), home buyers now have a larger range of choices. Shopping for and owing a home is a great emotional experience and for most of us, the biggest...
DATE: Aug 19, 2000
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One of the spin-offs from the emerging e-commerce industry is the investigation of those involved in any new e-commerce company.
Paul Field of Caribbean Investigative Network (CIN) revealed that his business in the area of due diligence had increased...
DATE: Aug 18, 2000
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Bermuda's first Internet incubator has taken on another venture which plans to fill the gap for technical assistance on the Island, it was revealed yesterday.
Ignition, which plans to provide technological assistance to local companies, will be the l...
DATE: Aug 18, 2000
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of Butterfield's 95 percent mortgage offer would result in a significant loss of business to them.
Betty Brown, chief executive of Bermuda Savings & Loan said the high rate of financing would mostly attract young professionals with high incomes but l...
DATE: Aug 18, 2000
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A 35.6 percent increase in motor vehicle sales and service helped drive up retail sales for June, according to statistics released yesterday.
The Retail Sales Index rose 9.7 percent for the month over June, 1999, with turnover in the retail sector re...
DATE: Aug 18, 2000
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United Parcel Service will next week launch an appeal in the United States to overturn a decision which said that the shipping giants had illegally used a Bermuda reinsurance company to reduce its taxes.
A federal judge ordered UPS, the world's large...
DATE: Aug 18, 2000
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nuclear submarine trapped in the Barents Sea.
The fibre-optic cable company sent one of its submarine rescue units to help in attempts to rescue the crew of the crippled Russian submarine Kursk which sank on Saturday in the Arctic Ocean.
"We are resp...
DATE: Aug 18, 2000
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position of senior vice president, private clients Americas, effective this October. He will also join the executive committee of the bank.
Mr. Howard joins BOB from Barclays Private Bank in London, where he was regional director for Europe and the A...
DATE: Aug 18, 2000
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Kingdom's most important railway chains.
The Shadow Strategic Rail Authority in the UK announced yesterday that three parties have been selected to bid for Britain's South West Trains franchise.
It said they are Stagecoach Holdings (the incumbent fra...
DATE: Aug 18, 2000
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Bank of Bermuda shareholders reaped the benefit of a stock offer yesterday which pushed the total value of shares held up by 14 percent, but saw the overall price of shares fall by $5.375. The new floated stock was issued as part of a bonus offered t...
DATE: Aug 17, 2000
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