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Billions of dollars were wiped of the market values of Bermuda insurers yesterday, amid uncertainty over the pending vote by Congressmen on the rehashed US Government bailout plan.
Worst hit was Everest Re, as its share price plunged more than 11 per...
DATE: Oct 03, 2008
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Here are excerpts from editorials in newspapers around the world that may be of interest to readers of The Royal Gazette:
The Observer, London, on presumed consent for organ donation:
Within a few weeks, the Organ Donation Taskforce, a body set up la...
DATE: Oct 03, 2008
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BERMUDA'S own "Reggae Torch" is burning brightly once again. Local musician Clinark Dill is having a launch party for his new album, Journey to Foreign, at Snorkel Park in Dockyard tomorrow from 12.30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Speaking about the new album, Mr. ...
DATE: Oct 03, 2008
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The Bermuda Heart Foundation (BHF) has appointed a new Executive Director.
Simone J. Barton, who has more than 25 years of leadership experience in the corporate world and a wealth of knowledge in innovative management and design for special events p...
DATE: Oct 03, 2008
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The U.S. Congress this afternoon approved an unprecedented $700 billion government bailout of the battered financial industry and sent it to President Bush for his certain signature.
The final vote, 263 to 171 in the House, capped two weeks of tumult...
DATE: Oct 03, 2008
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THEY'VE got your tickets to ride - they being Bermuda's 441 Productions, who will be hosting Beatles tribute band The FabFour at the Fairmont Hamilton Princess on October 17 and October 18.
The local promotions company, known for bringing tribute ban...
DATE: Oct 03, 2008
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IT'S anyone's guess who will win the rescheduled Bank of Bermuda Foundation team triathlon this Sunday after a spanner was thrown into the works by last weekend's brush with Tropical Storm Kyle.
The best laid plans were knocked sideways by gusting wi...
DATE: Oct 03, 2008
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A leading environmentalist and former Corporation of Hamilton councillor has called on Government to consider the scale and setting of the "larger than life" Sally Bassett statue planned for the Cabinet Building grounds.
Government is set to erect th...
DATE: Oct 03, 2008
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — American International Group Inc. head Edward Liddy, who promised investors a smaller, nimbler company after selling units to repay an $85 billion US loan, has shareholders wondering if there will be anything left to run.
Liddy...
DATE: Oct 03, 2008
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NEW YORK (AP) — Pessimism about a protracted economic downturn washed over the financial markets yesterday, sending stocks plunging and further tightening the credit markets. Reports on declining factory orders and a seven-year high in jobless claims...
DATE: Oct 03, 2008
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