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What is Cassava?
CASSAVA (Manihot esculent>) is a perennial woody shrub with between five and ten large, tuberous, starch-filled roots. These roots grow in a cluster just beneath the surface of the soil and take approximately 1-2 years to mature. It ...
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HONG KONG (Bloomberg) — Pacific Century Insurance Holdings Ltd. will buy an office building in Hong Kong from Bermuda-registered Hongkong Land Holdings Ltd. for HK$1.47 billion ($189 million).The building, with a gross floor area of about 290,000 squ...
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"The pirates, likewise, have a longing eye after these Islands, and know well how useful they would be for them: let us, therefore, so provide for ourselves, that come an enemy when he will, and be what he will, we may be able to give him a brave wel...
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NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street resumed its fourth-quarter rally yesterday, pushing the Dow Jones industrials to its first close above 12,400 after a series of strong company earnings and a drop in unemployment claims revived investors’ confidence in the...
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BERMUDIAN footballer-turned-author Shaun Goater is scoring on the local and British bestseller lists with the same power and grace he once demonstrated on football pitches with his recently published autobiography Feed The Goat, a first-hand account ...
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A new personal lending centre was officially opened yesterday by the Bank of Bermuda.
The opening coincided with the launch of the first in a series of mortgage products being introduced by the Bank.
Bank of Bermuda chief executive officer Philip But...
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Sam Strangeways
With the re-emergence of Boulevard and Somerset Trojans and the cup pedigree of North Village and Devonshire Cougars, this year?s Premier?s Dudley Eve Cup promises to be an exciting one.
Boulevard have undoubtedly proven to be the surprise team so fa...
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Colin Thompson
I've been thinking.
Aside from fruitcake, there are still two other hazards when it comes to the festive season.
The first is the annual office party, which in my view should be banned. The potential for moments of drunken honesty and career-limiting...
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Catherine Burns
NEW YORK — Online and traditional retailers are taking aim at the bane of their holiday sales — procrastinators.You know the type. Last minute lollygaggers who have put off their holiday shopping either to wait for desperation sales by retailers or b...
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — US retail sales rose 3.9 percent last week, trailing an overall holiday forecast, as consumers delayed shopping until closer to Christmas, ShopperTrak RCT Corp. said.The 3.9 percent year-over-year sales gain for the week throug...
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