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The Premier, Dr. Ewart Brown, is a distant man, one who is driven, 'haunted', as defined by the Carib culture according one observer, and stuck in the 1970s: that is the combined conclusion of political commentators for the cover story of tomorrow's ...
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CHICAGO (AP) – Vaccine-like shots to keep cocaine abusers from getting high also helped them fight their addiction in the first successful rigourous study of this approach to treating illicit drug use. The shots didn't work perfectly, but the researc...
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A woman lost control of her vehicle and crashed into a utility pole on Somerset Road on Monday morning, resulting in 100 homes and businesses losing power.
The driver, a 27-year-old Sandys Parish woman, was travelling north on Somerset Road when her ...
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White Mountains Re Bermuda Ltd. has seen its financial strength rating (FSR) of A- (excellent) and issuer credit rating (ICR) of "a-" withdrawn.
In its place, the subsidiary of White Mountains Re Group Ltd. has been assigned an FSR of NR-5 (not forma...
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LONDON - Britain's top share index closed 2.3 percent higher, as heavyweight commodity and bank issues rallied on renewed hopes over the gathering pace of the global economic recovery, ahead of the third-quarter US earnings season. The FTSE 100 close...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Women who are overweight or obese when they get pregnant are more likely to give birth to children with congenital heart defects, according to a US government study.
The study, conducted by the US Centers for Disease Control an...
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Suddenly Twitter seems less annoying. The online messaging service derided by comedians such as Jon Stewart as "inane chatter" proved to be a life-saver in the Philippines this week. So was the networking site Facebook, which Filipinos used it to ple...
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Bermuda-based Syncora Holdings Ltd. has announced the appointment of four new independent directors.
William Fitzgerald and Robert Shippee will join the company's board of directors and the boards of its financial guarantee insurance subsidiaries, Sy...
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) - Gold rose to a record on speculation that inflation will accelerate and erode the value of the dollar, boosting the appeal of the precious metal for investors seeking to preserve their wealth.
Gold futures climbed as high as $1...
DATE: Oct 07, 2009
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Three foreign nationals appeared in Magistrates' Court yesterday accused of importing millions of dollars worth of cannabis.
Andrew Blatchley and Jeannie Harden, both 58, from Great Oak Drive in Charleston, South Carolina and Edide Plourde, 68, from ...
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