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The Fairmont Southampton Golf Course has proved a green greener than most after winning an award for environmental stewardship.
The course was chosen among five winners of industry magazine Golf Inc's inaugural Green Award.
The accolade was introduce...
DATE: Sep 30, 2008
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XL Capital Ltd. could pay out up to $270 million in claims for Hurricanes Gustav and Ike, the Bermuda-based insurer revealed yesterday.
The insurance giant also announced that less than one-quarter of one percent of its investment portfolio was expos...
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World stock markets plunged again yesterday after the US Congress rejected legislation to bail out the financial sector. That rejection, just hours after House of Representatives leaders though they had an agreement, shows that predicting the economi...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Less than 30 years ago, Union Station, the grand gateway to the US nation's capital, seemed to be going the way of the steam engine.
Like passenger rail itself, the Beaux Arts building was in decline, with chunks of the ceiling fall...
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DHL launches new express delivery service
Express services and logistics company DHL has launched a new express delivery, time definite service in Bermuda and the Caribbean: DHL Express 10.30 a.m. for deliveries to the US.
The new morning express del...
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Bermuda could lead the way in preserving the marine life of the world's oceans, according to a UK professor.
Dr. Callum Roberts, Professor of Marine Conservation at the University of York, says up to 40 percent of the Island's waters could be set asi...
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Larry Mussenden remained gracious in defeat after suffering a heavy loss in last night's Bermuda Football Association elections and insisted he was proud of his achievements during his seven-year stint as president.
Mussenden said the soon-to-be comp...
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Andre Hypolite is today beginning a life sentence for murdering Nicholas Dill in what a judge described as a "brutal and merciless" crime.
He was convicted of the killing on Friday, following a three-week retrial at the Supreme Court.
The jury heard ...
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Bermuda reinsurers saw their profits fall by nearly a third in the first half of this year, as pricing remained weak.
Net income for the 18 reinsurers surveyed by Benfield Group plc. dropped 32 percent to $4.3 billion during the first six months of 2...
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Year Births Actual Deaths Rate per 1,000 live births
2003 834 2 2.4
2004 831 0 0
2005 835 2 2.4
2006 798 3 3.8
2007 859 4 4.7
* Sources: Registrar General and UN Demographic Yearbooks.
DATE: Sep 30, 2008
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