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Prospect United v Boulevard Blazers
Tired legs could be a factor in this quarter-final clash with Boulevard having played 120 minutes of intense football only three days prior to this match.
They left it all on the pitch against PHC in their Friendsh...
DATE: Feb 21, 2009
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Butterfield Bank fell another three percent yesterday and dragged The Royal Gazette / Bermuda Stock Exchange down further.
Butterfield, which was the only domestic company to change value, shed 25 cents, or three percent, to close on $8.
That was suf...
DATE: Feb 21, 2009
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Government has allocated $4.4 million to help low income families with day care costs as part of yesterday's $74 million Ministry of Culture and Social Rehabilitation budget.
The Child Day Care Allowance programme was launched last year with an initi...
DATE: Feb 21, 2009
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Finance Minister Paula Cox believes that Bermuda is going into recession.
During her Budget statement yesterday, Ms Cox said she estimates the Island's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) will fall by one to 1.5 percent this year.
That will be no surprise t...
DATE: Feb 21, 2009
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Help for first-time home buyers and new health benefits for hard-up seniors were the key themes of yesterday's Budget as Government boosted borrowing to save off the worst of the recession.
Borrowing almost doubled from $90 million in 2007-8 to an ex...
DATE: Feb 21, 2009
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? Total debt jumps to $682.8m
? Tax revenue projected to rise to $969.6m
? Current account spending to reach $966m
? Capital spending to be $150 million
? Sinking fund to be used to pay interest
? Debt ceiling to be increased to $1b
? No tax increase...
DATE: Feb 21, 2009
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Government is to create a website where contractors can bid for work on an "equal" footing.
The Ministry of Works and Engineering's $71 million budget for 2009-2010 will include funding for an Internet bidding system.
Deputy Premier and Finance Minis...
DATE: Feb 21, 2009
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In his long and sometimes snarky campaign, John McCain took to ridiculing Barack Obama and his supporters for imputing messianic qualities to the upstart candidate, mockingly referring to the Democrat as "The One".
New evidence suggests McCain was on...
DATE: Feb 21, 2009
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FREDERICKSBURG, Virginia (Reuters) – Regulators yesterday seized Texas billionaire Allen Stanford's banks and companies in Antigua, the Caribbean state at the centre of fraud charges against him, as the financier surrendered his passport to US author...
DATE: Feb 21, 2009
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Sports Minister Glenn Blakeney has urged Bermuda Cricket Board to return the money they received from fraud-suspect billionaire Sir Allen Stanford.
Blakeney said that he trusted the BCB would 'do the right thing', adding that giving back the $500,000...
DATE: Feb 21, 2009
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