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Reinsurers have managed to avoid ratings downgrades despite the unprecedented market challenges this year only due to excess capital the industry had accumulated in recent years, according to a report issued by ratings agency Standard & Poors yesterd...
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Planning for all eventualities is one of the most important principles of leadership during the current financial crisis and future events, according to business chiefs across Bermuda.
Finance Minister Paula Cox said being prepared for any circumstan...
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LONDON (AP) — It's not quite the Nobel Prize, but John Updike has a new literary accolade: laureate of bad sex.
Updike, who has a long and graphic history of detailing coupling on the page, won a lifetime achievement award on Tuesday from judges of B...
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Today, Americans around the world are celebrating Thanksgiving. Many regard it as the most important holiday of the year, and even bigger than Christmas.
In Bermuda, the centrepiece will be the annual Thanksgiving service, this time at Wesley Methodi...
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NEW YORK (AP) — It's billed as the world's most expensive, most beautiful new book.
Costing well over $100,000, a 62-pound handmade tome depicting the life and work of Michelangelo has arrived at the New York Public Library, fresh from publication in...
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A new cruise ship berth at Dockyard has sparked plans for a new temporary bus depot.
The West End Development Corporation (WEDCO)has submitted an application for a parking area for 36 Public Transportation Board buses inPender Road. The site, which i...
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The annual Christmas boat parade will be back next year – bigger and better than ever before.
That was the message from Steve Thomson, one of the event founders, when he spoke at a cocktail reception at the Bacardi headquarters held for past parade p...
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Cannabis smoking is now so prevalent that the fire and prison services are having to recruit from overseas, according to Government Senate Leader David Burch.
He said there were plenty of would-be recruits who could not make it past the first hurdle ...
DATE: Nov 27, 2008
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It seemed, on the face of it, a fairly innocuous story: Ombudsman Arlene Brock announced earlier this month that she had launched an investigation into the accessibility of material at Bermuda Archives and would report her findings at a later date.
B...
DATE: Nov 27, 2008
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Home Affairs Minister David Burch yesterday questioned the "credentials" of XL Capital chief Michael McGavick, who last week issued a stark warning about the threats to Bermuda's status as an international business jurisdiction.
Senator Burch was res...
DATE: Nov 27, 2008
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