255735 results returned for search: "" category "Other"
LONDON (Reuters) - Barclays Plc beat forecasts with a near doubling of profits in 2009 to £11.6 billion ($18.20 billion), cheering investors with an improved balance sheet and boosting shares across the sector.
Shares in the bank, the first UK lender...
DATE: Feb 17, 2010
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
The Opposition have criticised a Minister's selection of his sister to a planning committee as "a conflict of interest".
This newspaper last week revealed Environment Minister Glenn Blakeney had appointed his sister to the Development Applications Bo...
DATE: Feb 17, 2010
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
A new way
January 22, 2010
Dear Sir,
Stormy days are part of living on this planet. Their main purpose is to wake us up, throw us out of our comfort zones, and force us to re-evaluate our priorities. In all likelihood we have all gone through our sha...
DATE: Feb 17, 2010
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Certain occupations can increase the risk of lung cancer for men with Italian researchers finding five percent of male lung cancers are job related although smoking remains by far the greatest cause of the disease.
Dario Co...
DATE: Feb 17, 2010
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
Watlington Waterworks Ltd. rose 26.81 percent ($2.95) to $13.95 on The Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) yesterday.
The utilities company traded 1,000 shares during the day.
The Ascendant Group Ltd., however, fell 10.86 percent ($1.95) to $16, as 600 shar...
DATE: Feb 17, 2010
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
Sedgwick Chudleigh has announced it is set to move offices to the historic EW Pearman Building at 20 Brunswick St. in Hamilton next month.
Built in 1816 by famous Bermuda silversmith George Hutchings, the building was converted into office space in 1...
DATE: Feb 17, 2010
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
A 24-year-old woman accused of possessing a firearm and one round of ammunition, was last week told the Crown was not pursuing the case against her.
Tiffany Eatherley was informed of the decision on February 8 in Magistrates' Court.
The mother-of-two...
DATE: Feb 17, 2010
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
Net income: $71.5 million compared to a loss of $75.6 million in 2008
Gross premiums written: $123.7 million compared to $95.2 million in 2008
Combined ratio: 73.3 percent compared to 75.9 percent in 2008
DATE: Feb 17, 2010
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
SAN FRANCISCO (Bloomberg) - The pace and size of acquisitions in the technology industry will return to "robust" levels this year after the value of deals dropped by more than 50 percent in 2009, according to a report by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.
H...
DATE: Feb 17, 2010
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
LONDON (Reuters) - British inflation shot further above its two percent target in January, though the Bank of England will almost certainly say the jump is temporary.
The Office for National Statistics said consumer price inflation rose to 3.5 percen...
DATE: Feb 17, 2010
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
