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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Harry Markopolos, a former investment manager who warned US regulators about Bernard Madoff, criticised the Securities and Exchange Commission and said yesterday that Madoff had help in running his alleged $50 billion fraud.
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Bermuda's seamers were put through their paces by former West Indies Test bowlers Bernard Julien and Kenny Benjamin at the Sir Frank Worrell Development Centre in Trinidad yesterday.
The Windies pace aces passed on their wealth of expertise to the Is...
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Murder victim Aquil Richardson was shot at close range by a gun held six inches or less from his chin, a jury heard yesterday.
Gunshot residue linked to the scene was also found on clothing items allegedly worn by the culprits.
The evidence came duri...
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Possible links between the Christmas Eve shooting of Jakai Harford and Boxing Day shooting of Aquil Richardson in 2007 were probed by lawyers yesterday.
Antoine Anderson and Philip Bradshaw are on trial accused of shooting Mr. Richardson, 30, and inj...
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - People over 60 years old who have had a fracture because of reduced bone density, or osteoporosis, face a higher risk of death over the next 10 years, a study in Australia has found.
Osteoporosis is common in people over 60 year...
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Bermuda-based Aspen Insurance Holdings Ltd. last night reported an 84-percent slump in fourth-quarter profits as hedge-fund investments slumped.
Aspen posted a net income of $21.8 million, or operating earnings of 17 cents per share, in the three mon...
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They're the so-called 'empty nesters' approaching retirement, the children have left home and suddenly there is a bit of time and money. So what better to do than travel and see some of the world. Here Associated Press writer Rick Spratling reports f...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Investment bank Lazard Ltd said fourth-quarter profit dropped by half, but results beat expectations as restructuring revenue rose, and its shares surged nearly 14 percent.
In recent quarters, posting any profit at all has been u...
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As expected, the newsflow on the global economy is proving to be quite unpleasant and is keeping risk appetite in check. People all over the world are aware that this is a synchronised global recession that is biting deeply.
Consumer spending in the ...
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Former Tyco International Ltd. chief executive officer Dennis Kozlowski, now in jail for stealing millions of dollars from the Bermuda-based company, plans to appeal his conviction to the US Supreme Court.
Kozlowski hired New Y...
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