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WASHINGTON (Reuters) — His people may be turning against him but Pervez Musharraf, an army general turned Pakistani president, still has a loyal ally in George W. Bush.The US president and top aides remain largely uncritical of Musharraf’s handling o...
DATE: Jun 07, 2007
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LONDON (Bloomberg) — Lloyd's of London, the world's biggest insurance market, is selling bonds to help reduce costs for members of the mutually owned institution.Lloyd's, which began 319 years ago as a place where merchants, ship owners and captains ...
DATE: Jun 07, 2007
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Reinsurers hit by big losses from the 2005 hurricanes of Katrina, Rita and Wilma who have since sought to diversify into non-catastrophe business lines are facing diminishing returns.
And the flip-side of the emerging picture shows that "unfashionabl...
DATE: Jun 07, 2007
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Scott Neil
This is the second in a series of columns on ageing that will appear each fortnight in The Royal Gazette.
Government has just passed a bill to raise the mandatory retirement age for civil servants, and also made provision for them to be re-employed b...
DATE: Jun 07, 2007
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When paediatric therapist Julia Harper flew onto the Island last week to meet with autistic children and their parents she knew her time with them would be limited.
But it's amazing the difference an hour can make — as was proven by one little boy wh...
DATE: Jun 07, 2007
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
The exhibits at the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute are like the oceans — ever changing.
The Healthy Oceans Healthy Humans exhibit opens today, but BUEI director Wendy Tucker says that there is tons more to see.
“We have lots planned for the...
DATE: Jun 07, 2007
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In 1999, Bermudian Lowdru Robinson retired — or so he thought, but that was before his daughter Lolita Schmalenberg and her husband persuaded him to join them in China, where they are both involved in education.
Mr. Robinson had visited China previou...
DATE: Jun 07, 2007
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Public Safety Minister Sen. David Burch yesterday raised the stakes in the political crisis that the Island has been thrown into due to the Bermuda Housing Corporation scandal.
He did so in what now seems to have all of the signs of a calculated camp...
DATE: Jun 07, 2007
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Carmel Furtado is looking forward to spending Father’s Day with her dad.
Ms Furtado, who lives in Vermont, says that one of her greatest memories was when her father, Frank Furtado, first brought her to Bermuda when she was only five years old.
“He w...
DATE: Jun 07, 2007
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The website www.familyeducation.com has cited the following gifts as its top ten.
Sporting Event Tickets:If dad loves sports, a pair of tickets to his favourite sporting event would be a great surprise for Father’s Day. Get tickets for the whole fami...
DATE: Jun 07, 2007
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