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Premier Ewart Brown and his wife Wanda hosted a tea for pensioners on Sunday to kick off the Island's annual Seniors' Week.
The event at the Botanical Gardens attracted almost 1,400 seniors.
Dr. Brown said: "For Wanda and me the Senior Citizens' Tea ...
DATE: Jun 30, 2009
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NEW YORK (AP) - Investors are seeing a jump in oil as reason to snap up stocks in the final days of the second quarter.
Energy, industrial and materials stocks pulled the market higher in light trading yesterday as investors looked to put money into ...
DATE: Jun 30, 2009
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A lack of judgment
June 15, 2009
Dear Sir,
Please allow me the opportunity of critically commenting on the Premier's decision to allow Uighur detainees from Guantánamo Bay into Bermuda. The internationalist in me wants to applaud this decision as a m...
DATE: Jun 30, 2009
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LOS ANGELES (AP) – Some of the biggest stars on the planet turned back into gushing Michael Jackson fans at the BET Awards, donning single gloves, swapping stories about their idol and singing The King of Pop's standards.
In her first public appearan...
DATE: Jun 30, 2009
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison yesterday for perpetrating Wall Street's biggest and most brazen investment fraud, the maximum punishment allowed for what the judge called "extraordinarily ...
DATE: Jun 30, 2009
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Bermuda-based entities with exposure to Madoff were remaining tight-lipped yesterday following yesterday's sentencing of the convicted fraudster to 150 years in prison.
Argus Group Holdings Ltd., the Bank of Bermuda, Kingate Management Ltd. and Fairf...
DATE: Jun 30, 2009
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After Bermudian filmmaker Lucinda Spurling premiered her now star-studded documentary film this spring she found it was missing something – a stud, who's a star.
That problem has now been rectified. Actor Michael Douglas, who lives in Bermuda with hi...
DATE: Jun 30, 2009
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BRAND LOYALTY: How loyal are you to your brands?
A new marketing study says you're probably pretty fickle. For the average manufacturer's grocery brand, less than half of consumers who made 70 percent or more of their category purchases with a single...
DATE: Jun 30, 2009
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International One Design (IOD) skipper, Penny Simmons, did the Island proud in Stenungsund, Sweden, last week where he placed fourth competing against the world's elite at the IOD World Championships.
The veteran local sailor managed to position hims...
DATE: Jun 30, 2009
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AUTHOR:
Colin Thompson
Four future Bermudian medical workers received a leg up last week courtesy of the Bermuda Health Foundation, while another medical professional was rewarded for his service to the community.
The Bermuda Health Foundation presented four students study...
DATE: Jun 30, 2009
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
