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Validus Holdings Ltd. has agreed to buy fellow Bermuda reinsurer IPC Holdings Ltd. in a deal worth $1.7 billion.
The two companies announced that their boards of directors has agreed on a sweetened deal, which saw Validus double the cash payment it i...
DATE: Jul 09, 2009
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Jonathan Kent
United Bermuda Party MP Patricia Gordon-Pamplin has slammed both the Premier and Cabinet Minister Walter Roban for what she sees as a failure to apologise when the situation demands.
During yesterday's motion to adjourn in the House of Assembly, Ms G...
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Police arrested a man in the Senate yesterday after he became abusive and hurled obscenities at Attorney General Kim Wilson.
Just before 11 a.m. Burnell Cross walked into the Senate Chambers and sat in the public gallery. When Sen. Walton Brown walke...
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United Bermuda Party Senator Michael Fahy believes the "rhetoric has gone too far" after PLP slurs against a white voter and pro-democracy protesters.
The Royal Gazette has previously reported how Mr. Roban told voter Claire Smith that he did not cor...
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A husband and wife were charged this morning with stealing more than $300,000 from Emerald Capital Investment Ltd.
The company’s managing director Antoinette Bolden, 45, and its president, David Bolden, 46, were charged in Magistrates’ Court.
They ar...
DATE: Jul 09, 2009
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
A raft of new bills aimed at encouraging growth and investment was approved in the House of Assembly yesterday.
Finance Minister Paula Cox gave second readings to six pieces of legislation which she said would lift barriers for business and create sa...
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Government Minister Terry Lister will be able to make changes to postal rates without first getting permission from the House of Assembly, under new legislation passed through the House of Assembly yesterday.
The Post Office Amendment Act 2009 will m...
DATE: Jul 09, 2009
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Tim Smith
The Bermudian work ethic will be the next thing tackled by the Ministry of Labour.
Senator David Burch, the Minister of Labour, told a press conference today that his ministry would be looking to “upgrade the work ethic” because he has heard of sever...
DATE: Jul 09, 2009
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Police have still not completed a security review of the four Uighurs from Guantánamo Bay — almost a month after they arrived in Bermuda.
Governor Sir Richard Gozney said yesterday that it was through no fault of Bermuda Police Service that the check...
DATE: Jul 09, 2009
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