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Government is cutting holiday licensing fees for businesses and this afternoon donated $20,000 to the Chamber of Commerce to jump-start its Buy Bermuda Campaign.
Finance Minister Paula Cox made the announcement in response to concerns about the econo...
DATE: Dec 09, 2008
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A taxi driver has claimed that he was chopped in the neck by a man disgruntled over a business deal.
Neville Andre Greene told a Supreme Court jury that prior to the incident on April 29, Stephen Gladstone Thompson had asked him about driving a taxi ...
DATE: Dec 09, 2008
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Bermuda-based XL Capital Ltd. stands to increase its share of the growing Brazilian reinsurance market, after receiving regulatory approval to operate as a local reinsurer, incorporated in Brazil and regulated by Brazilian authorities.
In June, XL Re...
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First elected in 1993 in the dual-member seat of Hamilton West, Wayne Furbert became Community and Cultural Affairs Minister under John Swan and also served as Transport Minister and Minister of Health, Social Services and Housing.
He lost his seat i...
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The majority of lawyers are in favour of plans to allow bankrupt barristers to practise in Bermuda, according to Bermuda Bar Association president Rod Attride-Stirling.
He said 90 members of the association responded to an e-mail survey on the topic ...
DATE: Dec 09, 2008
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Stocks tumbled on The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) yesterday with the utilities and banking sectors hit hardest.
Belco Holdings Ltd. fell 25 cents (1.53 percent) to $16 with 400 shares traded, while Butterfield Bank was down 15 cents (1...
DATE: Dec 09, 2008
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Congratulations to:
Anthony Darrell of the Public Transportation Board whose birthday was yesterday.
Patricia Darrell of Hamilton Parish whose birthday is today.
Dorothea Butterfield JP of Beacon Hill Road, Sandys whose 75th birthday was yesterday.
DATE: Dec 09, 2008
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Former United Bermuda Party leader Wayne Furbert has quit the party in disgust over its failure to reform into an election-winning entity.
The MP, who held marginal Hamilton West at the last election, will sit as an independent but will not contest t...
DATE: Dec 09, 2008
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Three wreaths were cast into the sea during a touching tribute to deceased mariners.
The ceremony – an annual event since the sinking of the Lloyd Bermuda in 1988 – took place last Thursday morning at Five Fathom Hole, St. George's.
The first wreath ...
DATE: Dec 09, 2008
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CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich yesterday ordered all state agencies to stop doing business with Bank of America to try to pressure the bank into helping laid-off workers staging a sit-in at their shuttered factory.
The governor want...
DATE: Dec 09, 2008
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