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American International Group (AIG) today posted a fourth-quarter profit of $11.2 billion thanks to a sell-off of assets - but its shares fell over lingering doubts about some parts of the business.
The profit was the first in three quarters for the c...
DATE: Feb 25, 2011
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Shadow Finance Minister Bob Richards today labelled last week's Budget as an election Budget designed “not to rehabilitate but to sedate”.
The UBP was this morning given the opportunity to outline its reply to Premier Paula Cox's Budget and in a long...
DATE: Feb 25, 2011
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The Bermuda Society of Arts will continue to run normally, despite not receiving a Government grant.
Gallery Director Julie Hastings-Smith said the $30,000 grant, which was cut from the 2011/12 Budget, was intended to fund a education project, not to...
DATE: Feb 25, 2011
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Budget
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
PartnerRe employee Denise Hollis initially took part in cancer fundraiser St Baldrick’s as a fun in-house competition with some men in the office.
But two weeks later the business analyst learnt that 15-year-old family member Nahge’ O’Brien had been...
DATE: Feb 25, 2011
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Company CEO Susan Patschak helped raise $300,000 for St Baldrick’s in 2009 and holds the record for the highest amount raised in the charity’s history.
Now Mrs Patschak and her fundraising partner Shannon Totten are hoping to match or surpass that s...
DATE: Feb 25, 2011
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A homeless man was sentenced to one month in prison after he admitted stealing lights from an unlocked basement.
Stephen Mills, 49, pleaded guilty in Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday to burglary.
Crown counsel Carrington Mahoney said police on patrol ...
DATE: Feb 25, 2011
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Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Local companies interested in helping build Bermuda’s new hospital are invited to a meeting next week.
Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Kim Wilson is holding the session on Monday at 10am at the Fairmont Hamilton Princess, in partnership with mai...
DATE: Feb 25, 2011
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Sam Strangeways
Historian George Cook says the wreck of the Sea Venture in Bermuda was the turning point in the English colonisation of America.
Previous efforts by the English to colonise North America were disastrous, he told members of the Hamilton Rotary on Tues...
DATE: Feb 25, 2011
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The public should follow the lead of companies adopting Bermuda’s public schools and help restore a sense of community according to a businessman who adopted TN Tatem.
Yesterday, The Hunt’s Group of companies was announced as the latest participants ...
DATE: Feb 25, 2011
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Education
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A woman is shaving her head for a charity event in honour of a cousin who lost her fight with lymphoma.
Raquel Wilkinson said she isn’t really worried or scared about what people think of her shaved head and hopes to bring greater awareness about th...
DATE: Feb 25, 2011
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