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The rocketing value of goods bought overseas by Bermuda residents was described as "frightening" by Island retailers.
Government figures released yesterday showed overseas purchases declared at Bermuda International Airport by returning residents cli...
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Driving at 95kph landed a 19-year-old in Magistrates' Court yesterday.
Malachi Brown, of South Road, Devonshire pleaded guilty to driving at 95 kph and not having a driver's licence on January 24 this year.
Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner asked Br...
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NEW YORK (AP) ? Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc., the largest US insurance brokerage, yesterday reported a six-fold increase in profit for the fourth quarter on strong revenue growth in its insurance, risk and consulting businesses.
The New York-based...
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HARARE (Reuters) — President Robert Mugabe faces new pressure from Zimbabwe’s worsening economic crisis, which is now deeply felt in his rural strongholds and is testing the loyalty of security forces that have rallied behind him, analysts said. Poli...
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Butterfield Bank reported record profits of $134.1 million for 2006 yesterday ? an increase of 22.6 percent compared with 2005.
Shareholders will feel the benefit of the bumper earnings as the Bank?s board decided to raise the quarterly dividend paym...
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Bermuda company W.P. Stewart and Co., Ltd. yesterday reported net income of $11.6 million for the fourth quarter of 2006 ? up $8.8 million on the last three months of 2005.
Assets under management at the end of last year were approximately $8.1 billi...
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SALT LAKE CITY — A trench coat-clad teenager who opened fire on shoppers at a mall had one thing in mind: “to kill a large number of people,” and he likely would have killed more than the five victims who died had an off-duty officer not confronted h...
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) ? Scottish Re Group Ltd. shareholders should vote for a $600-million buy-out bid when they meet in Hamilton on February 23.
That is the view of two investor advisory firms who believe the bid by Cerberus Capital Management LP and...
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) — A psychologist at the University of Buffalo, New York has found that some people become anxious and expect that they will be rejected by others based on their physical appearance. Being highly sensitive to appearance-based...
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Today in HistoryToday is Wednesday, February 14, the 45th day of 2007. There are 320 days left in the year. This is Valentine’s Day.
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In 1778, the American ship Range> carried the recently adopted Star and Stripes to a foreign port for th...
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