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Two veteran firefighters are awaiting the outcome of a landmark legal action alleging discrimination on the grounds of disability.
Michael Roberts and Stephen Hayward were forced to retire after years of service due to heart conditions. They say they...
DATE: Jul 17, 2008
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Auditor General Larry Dennis has called for greater autonomy for his office after complaining about increasing political inference.
Government forcibly relocated him and his staff at 24-hour's notice in May 2006 to an unrenovated premises which effec...
DATE: Jul 17, 2008
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Background TV disruptive for very young children
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) — Having the television on in the background while preschoolers play with their toys disrupts their efforts to sustain attention, even when they don't pay much attention to it...
DATE: Jul 17, 2008
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West Indies legend Sir Viv Richards has urged Bermuda's cricketers to "stand up and be counted" when they take on the Windies in next month's triangular series also involving hosts Canada in Toronto.
Bermuda will tackle Test opponents West Indies at ...
DATE: Jul 17, 2008
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A tourist was slashed with an axe in a robbery involving four men.
Police have described the incident as "peculiar" and are appealing for witnesses. The man – a passenger on the Norwegian Dawn cruise ship, suffered several cuts to the chin, head and ...
DATE: Jul 17, 2008
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new york (Bloomberg) — Wells Fargo & Co., the biggest bank on the US West Coast, rose the most in more than 25 years after reporting better-than-expected second-quarter profit and raising its dividend.
Wells Fargo advanced $4.09 to $24.56 in 10.29 a....
DATE: Jul 17, 2008
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NEW YORK (AP) - Wall Street - at least for the moment - shrugged off some of its many concerns yesterday and bounded higher thanks to a drop in oil prices. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 276 points, or 2.5 percent, posting its best daily gain ...
DATE: Jul 17, 2008
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Butterfield Bank was the only company to experience any movement during a quiet day on The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index (BSX) yesterday.
The bank traded 1,100 shares as it climbed five cents (0.31 percent) to close on $16.
Overall the I...
DATE: Jul 17, 2008
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Far out in the Atlantic, a little yellow submarine is trying to slip from current to current, gliding across the ocean beneath the waves.
The unmanned sub is nearing the halfway mark in its effort to travel from New Jersey to Spain,...
DATE: Jul 16, 2008
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Imagine Bermuda 2009 is celebrating Nelson Mandela's 90th Birthday this Friday at City Hall.
The event is being held in the spirit of the rallies — which are part of Bermuda's heritage — when families or neighbourhoods came together to build houses a...
DATE: Jul 16, 2008
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