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Credit rating agency AM Best Co has downgraded the financial strength rating of insurer Argus Group Holdings Ltd following a “significant decline” in the company's capital position over the past two years.
Argus now has a financial strength rating o...
DATE: Mar 01, 2011
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The British judge who ruled on the death of Princess Diana has joined the Court of Appeal of Bermuda as a Justice of Appeal. Sir Scott Baker was sworn in yesterday by Governor Sir Richard Gozney at a ceremony at Government House. He replaces Mr Justi...
DATE: Mar 01, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
There has been an “outpouring of interest” from local construction firms wanting to help build Bermuda’s new hospital, a meeting heard yesterday.
Double the expected number of people about 350 in total attended a session at the Fairmont Hamilton Prin...
DATE: Mar 01, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Bermuda was recently highlighted on a BBC Travel website, listing it as one of several ideal places to own a Caribbean home.
The article acknowledges the high cost of living here and also remarks on the advantages of Bermuda’s isolation. “The cab dri...
DATE: Mar 01, 2011
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Tourism
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Bermuda Industrial Union leaders have threatened to hold a general meeting of all members if a private company which sacked seven workers doesn’t reinstate them.
BIU president Chris Furbert told a press conference yesterday he couldn’t predict what a...
DATE: Mar 01, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
New parking rates for the City of Hamilton go into effect next Monday.
Street parking will be raised 25 cents, to $2 an hour; the cost of using car parks will rise by 50 cents per hour. All-day parking is to increase by $2. The city will also move aw...
DATE: Mar 01, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A self-confessed heroin addict who robbed the people who tried to help him was yesterday jailed for 18 months.
Jamaine Quidir Salaam,36, of no fixed abode, was sentenced in Magistrates’ Court after admitting to two counts of robbery.
Senior Crown cou...
DATE: Mar 01, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The controversial Rosewood Tucker's Point special development order was this morning passed, paving the way for the resort to start building new homes and an extra 70 hotel rooms.
After a near seven-hour debate in the House of Assembly which finished...
DATE: Mar 01, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
A Pembroke man appeared at Supreme Court this morning to deny that he possessed a gun and thousands of dollars worth of drugs.
Jakai Harford, 28, was arrested on January 8 after Police raided a home in the St Monica’s Road area of Pembroke and seized...
DATE: Mar 01, 2011
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Other
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A man with his own wanted poster at the Department of Immigration is to be deported after being caught on a minor traffic offence.
Jamaican national Joel Ezroy Deans, 30, appeared in Magistrates’ Court after admitting to unlawfully remaining in Bermu...
DATE: Mar 01, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
