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Arnold Astwood has today been sentenced to 14 years in prison for killing his girlfriend Ruth Binns at her Southampton home in 2007.
Astwood, 36, of Devonshire, pleaded guilty to manslaughter after assaulting 26-year-old Ms Binns during an argument.
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DATE: Mar 03, 2009
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto's main stock index joined a global equity sell-off on yesterday, falling more than five percent for its biggest one-day drop in three months, due to weaker oil prices and data that showed the Canadian economy shrank.
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DATE: Mar 03, 2009
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Anniversaries seem to be plentiful this year Bermuda is celebrating its 400th anniversary as is Jamestown, Virginia in the United States. But another less well-known US city is also celebrating and hoping its birthday bash will be a lure for tourists...
DATE: Mar 03, 2009
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The Royal Gazette / Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) Index bucked the global stock market trend by gaining ground yesterday.
Butterfield Bank climbed 1.4 percent to help the BSX Index gain 16 points, or 0.57 percent, to close the day's trading on 2,820.6...
DATE: Mar 03, 2009
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CHICAGO (AP) — HSBC PLC, Europe's biggest bank, said yesterday it will no longer write new consumer loans in the United States and will shut down its US lending unit over the next five years due to the sub-prime mortgage market's collapse. The decisi...
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If the European Union has to bail out governments with payments problems in eastern Europe or the euro zone, the conditions would be so draconian as to cast those countries' economies deeper into a vale of tears.
That's why Brussels and Berlin are ur...
DATE: Mar 03, 2009
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Junior Labour Minister Walter Roban said his boss David Burch had done his best to cut costs and do more with less.
He said local training costs in the ministry had increased to $187,000 from $51,000, an increase of $136,000 but this was a demonstrat...
DATE: Mar 03, 2009
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The woeful economic climate was the theme of a long night in the House of Assembly, which saw Friday's budget debate continue until 4 a.m. Saturday.
Independent MP for Hamilton West Wayne Furbert tried to cheer things up by pointing out that the peop...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - American International Group Inc posted a record $61.7 billion quarterly loss yesterday and got a new but not necessarily final government bailout, after officials concluded again that letting the insurer fail would threaten the ...
DATE: Mar 03, 2009
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HELPING JOB-SEEKERS: Job hunts are stretching even longer for the growing number of unemployed. Try not to be ashamed of losing a position, urges Jamaica Eilbes, a recruiter for staffing company Manpower Inc. "Everybody knows somebody who's been let ...
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