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Military weather forecasters began giving women’s names to significant storms during World War II. Then in 1950 the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) agreed to an alphabetical naming system - using the military’s radio code.
The first named Atl...
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Whenever a hurricane hits our Island, it is almost guaranteed that thousands of homes will lose their power supply. As a result, the phone lines at Belco almost instantaneously begin to ring. Little do they know that before they’ve dialled, the men a...
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Hi dear readers,
While I was out on leave, often times I forgot what day it was. Since I had nowhere to go, it really did not matter until it struck me out of the blue that hurricane season was right around the corner and for the second consecutive y...
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Hurricanes and tropical storms have always had an impact on Bermuda. In fact a hurricane ultimately led to the colonisation of the Island in 1609.
Studies conducted by the Bermuda Weather Service found that from 1609 to the present day, devastating s...
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Cable & Wireless plc last night offered $205 million cash for 100 percent of KeyTech Limited ? parent company of Bermuda Telephone Company, M3 Wireless, Logic Communications, Bermuda Yellow Pages and part-owner of QuoVadis and Cablevision. The board ...
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On average, each year ten tropical storms, six of which become hurricanes, develop in the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea or Gulf of Mexico.
To help ensure the safety of your family and property, The Royal Gazette spoke to the Department of Health’s p...
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TODAY is Thursday, July 20, the 201st day of 2006. There are 164 days left in the year.
ON THIS DATE:In 1810, Colombia declared independence from Spain.
In 1881, Sioux Indian leader Sitting Bull, a fugitive since the Battle of the Little Big Horn, su...
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Bermuda?s difficult debut at the World Lacrosse Championships continued yesterday as they lost their fourth straight game by a significant margin in Ontario, Canada.
Playing in the Worlds? development group, Bermuda lost 9-3 to Latvia ? despite takin...
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Allied World Assurance Co. Holdings Ltd., which went public last week, plans to sell as much as $500 million in notes, Moody?s Investors Service said.
Bloomberg News reported yesterday the debt sale would be the company?s first, according to data com...
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The storm might be over, but the economic and emotional effects of Hurricane Katrina, which hit Louisiana and Mississippi in late August last year, are far from over and felt to this day. As of April this year, the Bush Administration has sought $105...
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