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Bermuda-based insurance giant XL Capital's share price yesterday lost more than half its value as US blue-chip stocks hit their lowest level in five years.
After an analyst raised concerns about XL's investment portfolio, the company's share price no...
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THE Corporation of Hamilton has this week defended itself against claims of illegal dealings and a disregard for the environment.
Former Corporation councillor and prominent eco-activist Graeme Outerbridge alleges that a Belco transformer currently s...
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PLANS to honour Bermuda's first recognised 'national hero', Dame Lois Browne Evans, with a statue have been put on hold thanks to the current economic downturn.
According to Culture Minister Dale Butler, a bust of Dame Lois ¿ who will be formally fêt...
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After more than three years of waiting and hoping, housing lottery winner Tanya Dyer got the news she'd been dreaming of last night.
An affordable house with a harbour view in Southside will be ready for the single mom and her four sons this time nex...
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Tynes Bay is now fully operational again with repairs to the second incineration stream completed almost two weeks ahead of schedule.
The breakdown in machinery resulted in domestic waste being dumped as landfill at Marsh Folly, in a contingency meas...
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The Premier is to visit London to encourage graduates to bring their skills back to Bermuda.
Dr. Ewart Brown's College Tour visits The Dorchester hotel on October 25, offering students the chance to network and mix with potential employers.
Dr. Brow...
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SPENDING two months in Bermuda in the summer of 1980 really was just like starting over for former Beatle John Lennon - who overcame a five-year period of writer's block to produce two albums' worth of new material while on the island.
According to P...
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Gospel fans should mark this Sunday in their calendars – that's when living legend Odetta is set to perform in the Mid-Ocean Amphitheatre at the Fairmont Southampton Hotel as part of the Bermuda International Film Festival's Reel World Weekend.
The s...
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A BERMUDA-based fitness facility is expanding its operations abroad.
The Athletic Club (TAC), a fixture in Bermuda's health and fitness scene since 1984, has purchased gym space on the island of Providenciales in the Turks and Caicos.
Kym Burns, the ...
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A drug addict who stabbed his girlfriend eight times in the head, chest and face in a seemingly inexplicable attack has been jailed for five-and-a-half years.
Sentencing Jamel Fray yesterday, Puisne Justice Charles-Etta Simmons speculated the violenc...
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