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Bermuda-based financial guarantor Assured Guaranty Ltd. last night announced profit of more than half a billion dollars for the second quarter — more than 16 times what the company made in the same period last year.
Most of the improvement related to...
DATE: Aug 08, 2008
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Jonathan Kent
After searching for my car for half an hour on the wrong floor of Bulls Head car park, it occurred to me I ought to do something about my memory. People say that when you have a baby your memory deteriorates, and so far — so true. I guess this is lar...
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Catherine Burns
A memorial service for philanthropist Stewart Rawlins Mott will be held on August 9.
Mr. Mott, founder of the Stewart R. Mott Charitable Trust and the Fund for Constitutional Government, died of cancer at the age of 70 on June 12.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The Bank of England held interest rates at 5.0 percent yesterday for the fourth straight month, and borrowing costs are expected to remain on hold for a while as policy-makers balance slowing growth and rising inflation.
All 76 ana...
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Top umpire Richard Austin has supported those claiming two days of Cup Match is ample time to encourage an outright victory.
A perennial debate over whether or not to include a third day reared its head again this year after St.George's and Somerset ...
DATE: Aug 08, 2008
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Colin Thompson
Sandys man beaten in attempted robbery
Two would-be robbers pounced on a Sandys man as he was walking home from work early yesterday morning.
Police said that while the culprits left empty-handed, the victim had to be treated at hospital as a result ...
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Chateaux in the Loire are everywhere. Rich in history, architecture, cuisine, great wines and scenery, the Loire Valley is justly famous the world over. But there is much, much more. Underground.
What is not known is that here, around the chateaux an...
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BLACK litigants and their lawyers are being discriminated against by a legal system riddled with institutionalised racism, it is alleged.
And according to one lawyer, real justice will always be denied "Mr. and Mrs. Poor Bermuda" because the same bia...
DATE: Aug 08, 2008
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The banking sector thrived as utilities suffered a downturn in fortunes on The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index (BSX) yesterday.
Butterfield Bank climbed 10 cents (0.66 percent) to close at $15.10, with 1,150 shares traded.
But Watlington W...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Marriage gets little respect on network TV shows that instead revel in the pleasures of extramarital and even kinky sex, according to a study released on Tuesday.
The study by the Parents Television Council includes a strongly word...
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