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A potentially ugly impasse involving the Bermuda Football Association (BFA) and national youth team coaches was narrowly avoided yesterday after a local insurance company agreed to fund hotel accommodation for the Island’s Under-13, Under-14 and Unde...
DATE: Feb 16, 2007
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Bermuda is likely to need more rest homes like the Sylvia Richardson Facility in the future as Bermuda’s population ages.
In 2000, there were 6,722 people over the age of 65, compared to 5,396 in 1991, a rise of 25 percent. The percentage of people a...
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NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street extended its February rally, growing confident that interest rates will hold steady even as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke tempered his forecast of slowly cooling growth and inflation with a reminder that price pres...
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NEW YORK (AP) — As kids keep getting plugged into the internet, toy makers are following them online.At the annual American International Toy Fair this week, toy makers showed playthings like Power Rangers helmets which store secret missions found on...
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Last year Australian Paul Sheehan outlasted compatriot Michael Sim in a playoff to claim top honours at the $600,000 Jacob’s Creek Open in Adelaide.
This time around he might have his hands full of Bermuda’s own Michael Sims, who touched down on Aust...
DATE: Feb 16, 2007
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Q: What is actress Salma Hayek doing? — M.F.
A: She’s about to start filming Keep Comingck, in which she plays a stripper with a teenage fan, directed by and co-starring William H. Macy. She then plans to produce and star in a comedy set in Mexico ca...
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ON an unseasonably warm December afternoon in Bermuda John F. Kennedy and Harold Macmillan sipped gin and tonics at Government House and contemplated the calculus of thermo-nuclear extinction.It was first day of the December 21-23 Kennedy/Macmillan B...
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Months of extremely hard work came to a head last week when Kyle Lightbourne, Paul Scope and myself were able to officially launch the Bermuda Hogges — our Island’s first professional football team.
It was a great evening at Fresco’s Wine Bar where w...
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WASHINGTON (Bloomberg) — Confidence among US homebuilders unexpectedly rose this month to the highest since June, an industry survey showed yesterday, a sign the housing market may begin to recover this year.The National Association of Home Builders/...
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LONDON (AP) — Diageo PLC, the world’s largest producer and distributor of alcoholic drinks, reported a 23-percent drop in first-half profit on yesterday, but raised its full-year guidance for profit growth from existing operations.The London-based co...
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