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PLATINUM Q4
REPORT CARD
Net income: $64.1 million compared to $102.2 million in 2007.
Combined ratio: 97.7 percent compared to 75.3 percent in 2007.
Net premiums written: $237.3 million compared to $241 million in 2007.
Platinum Underwriters Holdings...
DATE: Feb 19, 2009
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One Bermudian's dream of flying an aircraft became a reality in Atlanta last week and now 17-year-old CedarBridge Academy student Darren Thompson plans to make a career of piloting commercial airliners.
The Somerset resident recently completed an int...
DATE: Feb 19, 2009
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NEW YORK (AP) — MBIA Inc. said yesterday it will separate its municipal bond insurance business from the riskier operations that sent the company's finances into turmoil.
MBIA, which came under pressure in 2008 because it had insured mortgage-backed ...
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DEAR DR. GOTT: I hope you can help me. I am an 80-year-old widow, living alone, not overweight and I am active. I still mow my own lawn and have a garden and orchard. I grow veggies, berries, grapes, several types of tree fruits and walnuts. I have m...
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End the divisiveness
February 14, 2009
Dear Sir,
Dr. Ewart Brown, please stop "hitching your wagon" to the popularity and success of President Barack Obama. He believes in – and demonstrates – racial harmony, inclusion, consideration for the common c...
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In honour of the United States' first African American President, artists have come together for a show depicting how they feel about his presidency.
Sixteen artists have come together to pay tribute to the 44th President of the United States for the...
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This month is Black History Month and Royal Gazette Lifestyle reporter Rene Hill spoke to Vanosdelle (Van) Swan about his memories of marching by the side of Dr. Martin Luther King.
Today, the closest that many of us can get to Dr. Martin Luther King...
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Defence lawyers sought to undermine what one described as the "abject poverty" of the case against two men accused of murdering Aquil Richardson.
Antoine Anderson's lawyer Benjamin Nolan QC said of the charges against him and Philip Bradshaw: "They'v...
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Tonight finds the combined Bermuda Chamber Choir and the especially formed Bermuda Festival Chamber Orchestra making its Bermuda Festival debut at Wesley Methodist Church in Hamilton.
Founded in 1999 by John York Skinner, then principal of the Bermud...
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With its venomous spines and fearless attitude, the lionfish has no known predators in the Caribbean and Atlantic Ocean.
The fish which eats everything in sight however, could be about to be consumed by the ultimate predator mankind.
One way of defea...
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