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A telethon designed to raise funds for earthquake stricken Haiti raised more than $80,000 in three hours.
'To Haiti With Love' was the brainchild of the West Indian Association Bermuda and Barbadian Association.
The event was organised by Susan Moore...
DATE: Mar 10, 2010
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NEW YORK (AP) — Andy Richter, Conan O'Brien's sidekick at "The Tonight Show," is acknowledging some ill will toward NBC and Jay Leno in the wake of the network's late-night upheaval.
"Why wouldn't I?" said Richter, who was filling in Tuesday for Regi...
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PartnerRe Ltd. may face more than $300 million in claims emanating from the earthquake that caused billions of dollars worth of damage in Chile and tens of millions more from a European windstorm.
The company's shares fell 2.2 percent to $77.43 yeste...
DATE: Mar 10, 2010
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A Bermuda football player was charged with a misdemeanour theft offence in the US.
Yesterday, The Royal Gazette incorrectly reported that Tahj Bell was charged with stealing $4,000 worth of electronic goods from his Connecticut boarding school based ...
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Neither of Bermuda's main parties came out of Monday's Budget Debate very well.
First, it would appear that the Opposition United Bermuda Party decided not to accede to a request from Premier Dr. Ewart Brown that they hold the debate on his Ministry ...
DATE: Mar 10, 2010
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Premier Ewart Brown has challenged environmentalists to speak out on a plan for a tourist resort at the former US Naval Air Station at Morgan's Point.
He referred to the Island's green lobby during a presentation to the House of Assembly on Monday o...
DATE: Mar 10, 2010
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Legislation has been passed by MPs allowing Government to raise its statutory debt ceiling from $1 billion to $1.25 billion.
The move on Monday came despite vociferous protests from the Opposition, who said Government's financial stable door is wide ...
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The committee redrawing the Island's electoral boundaries has finished sitting, the House of Assembly heard this week.
Premier Ewart Brown told MPs on Monday that the work of the Boundaries Commission — which met between last May and January — outlin...
DATE: Mar 10, 2010
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Last week, pirates seized a Kenyan-flagged fishing vessel off the Somali coast for possible use as a "mother ship" to launch more attacks, a maritime official said on Tuesday.
And a French frigate operating off the coast of Soma...
DATE: Mar 10, 2010
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto's main stock market index fell for a second straight session yesterday as weaker oil and gold prices pulled resource shares lower, while most bank stocks also dropped.
The index's materials sector, home to mining and ferti...
DATE: Mar 10, 2010
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