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NEW YORK (AP) Outgoing Pfizer CEO Jeffery B. Kindler (pictured) will receive about $9.6 million in cash, plus stock incentives, as part of his compensation after abruptly leaving the drug developer after nearly five years leading the company.
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Hannover Re vice-president and underwriter Gail Martin has won the Bermuda Foundation For Insurance Studies annual Pink Shorts Award.
Ms Martin has served on BFIS committees since 2003, becoming a trustee in 2005 and a vice-president in 2009.
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Bermuda’s National Training Board has granted an internationally recognised certification to 45 local welders, under the National Certificate Programme.
Introduced in April last year, the programme requires assessment and training for the Island’s el...
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LONDON (AP) World stock markets mostly advanced yesterday on hopes that growth in the US and Asia will be stronger than expected, helping to offset the impact of Europe’s debt crisis.
A compromise in Washington to extend tax cuts helped shares and se...
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NEW YORK (AP) Actor James Franco is making a conveniently timed return visit to “General Hospital.”
ABC said Wednesday that Franco will appear on the soap opera February 25 and February 28.
Franco is co-hosting the Academy Awards ceremony on ABC with...
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An alcohol and drug prevention programme has been launched at Whitney Institute Middle School and will be extended to other schools, MPs heard today.
Attorney General Michael Scott told the House of Assembly that the after-school initiative was a joi...
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LONDON (Reuters Life!) - A devastating tram crash and a violent explosion leaving major characters fighting for their lives are two of the nail-biting scenes marking the 50th birthday of television’s longest-running soap opera.
“Coronation Street” af...
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ROME (Bloomberg) The Italian Treasury will begin 2011 with more than 30 billion euros ($40 billion) in reserves to provide a cushion amid debt-market volatility, said Maria Cannata, the Finance Ministry’s director of public debt.
“At the beginning of...
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LONDON (AP) British defence and aerospace contractor BAE Systems says it is planning to shed almost 1,300 jobs following government spending cuts.
BAE said yesterday that most of the losses were related to the axing of contracts to supply Nimrod spy ...
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