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An accountant from Bermuda has helped to rebuild homes in New Orleans for victims of Hurricane Katrina.
Sue Kovacs, 33, of Hamilton Parish, travelled to Louisiana alone earlier this month to work on a housing project run by charity Habitat for Humani...
DATE: Feb 21, 2006
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The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index fell 6.97 points yesterday to close at 4,393.39.
On a light day of trading Bermuda Commercial Bank fell 50 cents to close at $7.75 as investors traded in 222 shares and BF&M fell 25 cents to close at $18...
DATE: Feb 21, 2006
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Queen Noor of Jordan, an avid campaigner for global environmental issues, will be the speaker and guest of honour at The Bermuda Biological Station for Research (BBSR) fundraising gala on March 10.
The gala evening, which will take place at the Fairm...
DATE: Feb 21, 2006
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The Bermuda Zoological Society will present a lecture on the killifish, which is now found in only nine ponds around the Island. Mark Outerbridge, who is a research associate with the Bermuda Biodiversity Project, will present the lecture entitled Be...
DATE: Feb 21, 2006
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WASHINGTON (AP) — It could be campaign-year jitters.US President George W. Bush’s controversial eavesdropping program has irritated congressional Democrats and even some Republicans.
To some, the shift is pure politics as lawmakers worry about the No...
DATE: Feb 21, 2006
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Oral piercings and the health dangers they pose ? such as chipped teeth, receding gums, bad breath and even the possibility of death in extreme circumstances ? will be discussed by students at an open forum later this week.
The message will be delive...
DATE: Feb 21, 2006
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Bermuda and trusts go hand in hand. Not only does Bermuda have a vibrant offshore trust sector, many Bermudians have created their own trusts.
Until recently it was common practice to hold real estate in a trust to minimise stamp duties, and many of ...
DATE: Feb 21, 2006
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A couple of years ago, California writer Mary Roach was walking down the street when she suddenly heard her friend calling her name. "Hey, Mary?"
It would have been a mundane occurrence if her friend hadn't been dead. Was it her mind playing tricks o...
DATE: Feb 21, 2006
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February 20, 2006
Dear Sir,
I have just read in today's paper about the BBC World channel being off the air. In it CableVision says that they did not know that anything about it, but were going to look into it. This is distressing since there are sev...
DATE: Feb 21, 2006
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An American Airlines passenger plane was diverted to the Island after losing power in one of its engines while flying from the Caribbean to New York last night.
Almost half the Island?s fleet of fire-fighting vehicles were sent to Bermuda Internation...
DATE: Feb 21, 2006
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