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LONDON (Bloomberg) — UK services shrank the most in at least 15 years in the three months through January as the recession deepened and companies from banks to hotels axed jobs.
The 1.3 percent fall was the largest since records began in 1994 and fol...
DATE: Apr 01, 2009
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A Jamaican hairdresser who worked for 20 months without a holiday after moving to Bermuda has reported her former boss to the Department of Labour and Training.
Mother-of-two Denise Chambers-Clarke claims fellow Jamaican Adlia Davy, owner of Prestige...
DATE: Apr 01, 2009
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What do you call it when someone works hard for many years to build a nest egg for retirement, only to see it get swept away in a cloud of financial fraud which should have been detected by regulators? I call it economic terrorism.
Victims of this ki...
DATE: Apr 01, 2009
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BRUSSELS (AP) — Luxembourg's prime minister, who is under pressure to open his country's banks to outside scrutiny, told President Barack Obama yesterday to clamp down on tax havens at home before attacking those in Europe.
Jean-Claude Juncker said U...
DATE: Apr 01, 2009
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A woman told last night of her horror at finding a man she calls her son dead in her kitchen.
Shirley Parsons of Dondonald Street, Hamilton said she found her 24-year-old houseguest lifeless after she initially thought he was sleeping.
Ms. Parsons sa...
DATE: Apr 01, 2009
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BEIJING (Bloomberg) — China Shipping Container Lines Co., the country's second-largest cargo-box carrier, said 2008 profit tumbled 99 percent as a global recession caused rates to tumble.
Net income fell to 42.97 million yuan ($6.3 million), from a r...
DATE: Apr 01, 2009
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Retailers will be able to defer part of their Customs import duty payments for up to three months from today.
Approved retailers can pay 25 percent of duty due at the time of entry provided they pay the outstanding duty within 90 days of entry.
The i...
DATE: Apr 01, 2009
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Tim Smith
A $30,000 media campaign is being launched this week to make sure voters are properly registered.
The Parliamentary Registry's first ever Voter's Awareness Month will be spread across print, radio and television.
Entitled 'Stop the Drama' it features...
DATE: Apr 01, 2009
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The Visitor Information Centre located at L. F. Wade International Airport will now be self-serviced.
Guest to the Island will now be able to help themselves to any information about the Island and its attractions and all collateral will be replenish...
DATE: Apr 01, 2009
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Finance Minister Paula Cox feels that Bermuda is "well positioned" on the eve of a meeting of leaders of the world's major economic powers which could result in measures being taken against offshore financial centres.
Her comments come after it was c...
DATE: Apr 01, 2009
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