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Bermuda-based reinsurers Validus Holdings Ltd and Ariel Reinsurance Co called off merger talks after the Japan disaster caused uncertainty in insurance markets, Bloomberg reported today.
The news agency said its sources were three people with knowled...
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A 20-year-old woman was today sentenced to 13 years behind bars after importing heroin valued at $657,600 into Bermuda.
Co-Shae Bartrum, of Controversy Lane, in Pembroke, was caught with the drugs in a condom planted inside her on May 23 last year. ...
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Autism expert Kimberly Mills told Hamilton Rotary today that the number of people being diagnosed with the disorder was increasing.
Noting that cases of autism are becoming more frequent, Dr Mills said: “Is there an epidemic of autism? If you look at...
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A 41-year-old Filipino national charged with sexual assault has been acquitted in Magistrates’ Court.
He had been accused of the offence by a 26-year-old Filipino woman who worked with him on a cruise ship. In January he was brought to Bermuda from M...
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The Bermuda Police Association and Government have ended a long-running pay dispute after Government agreed to make pension payments on officers’ total earnings.
Today Minister of Public Safety David Burch announced the legal action, due to be heard ...
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So-called ‘Facebook Fugitive’ Alvone Maybury has today been sentenced to nine years in prison for conspiring to shoot gangster Raymond “Yankee” Rawlins.
The 25-year-old pleaded guilty to conspiring between December 11 and 17, 2009, with Anthony Swan...
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A 33-year-old Pembroke man was injured in a single-vehicle traffic accident early yesterday.
The man sustained serious head and facial injuries when his motorcycle struck the sidewalk at the junction of Lane Hill and Cavendish Road, Pembroke at about...
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A worker split his head open as he accidentally fell out of the container he was offloading.
The man, who works for Cycle Care, was using a forklift to move bikes from the container into a company warehouse when the accident happened at about 2.30pm ...
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The Government Marketing Centre at Prospect will close for two days for stocktaking this week.
The Devonshire facility serves as an agricultural service and supply centre for farmers and growers. It also supplies ice to fishermen, and occasionally se...
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British Airways is beginning its summer schedule this week, with daily service between Bermuda and London.
Flights to and from the UK are scheduled every day until October 29, when the airline returns to its reduced winter schedule.
Flights can be bo...
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