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Government is still undecided on whether to introduce unemployment insurance – as the recession begins to bite.
The idea was first put on the table in 2002 by then Finance Minister Eugene Cox, and two years later $1 million seed money was set aside f...
DATE: Jan 26, 2009
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Dear Annie: I am a 42-year-old woman and have never had a normal relationship with my mother. She says every time she looks at me I bring out the bad in her. I have been hit and called names. She made it clear that she never loved me.
My younger sist...
DATE: Jan 26, 2009
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More than a century after slavery was abolished in Bermuda, white privilege lived on in the form of segregation in hotels, theatres, restaurants and schools.
Dissatisfaction was shown from time to time, including Georgine Hill's picketing of Bermudia...
DATE: Jan 26, 2009
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A great-grandfather has launched his own trade union — and hopes at least 100 people will sign up as members.
Community activist Raymond Russell, well known in Bermuda for taking up the cause of the underdog, says Our Civil Rights Union (OCRU) is ope...
DATE: Jan 26, 2009
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - More than a year into the global financial crisis, one of economists' worst fears — a collapse in currency values by countries desperate to save their economies from ruin — is becoming a greater risk.
This week, with currencies b...
DATE: Jan 26, 2009
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MUNICH (Bloomberg) - Hannover Re, Germany's second-biggest reinsurer, agreed to take over Bermuda-based Scottish Re Group's business of reinsuring US life-reinsurance policies written by ING Groep NV.
Hannover Re will also "acquire the policy adminis...
DATE: Jan 26, 2009
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US Consul General Gregory Slayton talks about the future of US/Bermuda relations after the Republican-appointed diplomat was given rare permission to stay put by incoming Democrat President Barack Obama.
Give him a chance that is US Consul General Gr...
DATE: Jan 26, 2009
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Two organisations with public service outreach goals have been honoured with CableVision's quarterly Community Service Award.
The Epsilon Theta Lambda Chapter of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. and the Bermuda Alumna Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta...
DATE: Jan 26, 2009
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WASHINGTON — Before President Obama can do, he must undo. Repairing the damage that George W. Bush did to the nation's values, honour and pride will be complicated and, at times, politically inconvenient. But nothing is more urgent, and nothing will ...
DATE: Jan 26, 2009
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co., and Chrsyler LLC said about 988 of their auto dealerships closed or were consolidated last year.
The automakers, meeting with dealers at the National Automobile Dealers Association conventi...
DATE: Jan 26, 2009
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