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NEW YORK (AP) - Wall Street ended a whipsaw day mostly lower yesterday, as fears of escalating instability in the financial sector kept investors on edge despite a steep retreat in oil. The Dow Jones industrials had their first close below 11,000 sin...
DATE: Jul 16, 2008
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Local ten-pin bowlers Patrice Tucker and Aretha (Smith) Burdell took on the best that America had to offer in Reno, Nevada, recently and showed that Bermuda can more than hold its own in the sport on the international stage.
The doubles pairing of Tu...
DATE: Jul 16, 2008
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LONDON (Bloomberg) - Seadrill Ltd., the Norwegian oil-rig company set up by billionaire John Fredriksen, took delivery of a deepwater drilling ship contracted to Exxon Mobil Corp.
The ultra-deepwater drillship West Polaris from Samsung Heavy Industri...
DATE: Jul 16, 2008
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Minister of Finance Paula Cox said Government is doing its best to improve after another damning report from the Auditor General Larry Dennis.
He released a raft of criticisms last week including late financial reporting meaning $500 million was unac...
DATE: Jul 16, 2008
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A Bermuda Basketball Association (BBA) squad will head to Canada this week to play in the Toronto Basketball Association's Summer Tournament.
The event starts this Friday continuing until Sunday with Bermuda playing a minimum of three games in the fo...
DATE: Jul 16, 2008
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Cabinet is considering alternatives to conscription, said Premier Ewart Brown yesterday but he gave little clue about details.
Earlier this month an influential group of British MPs recommended the phasing out of conscription in a report on Britain's...
DATE: Jul 16, 2008
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Thirty years ago today the New York Times featured an article about Bermuda's emerging captive industry on the front page of its financial section.
The article, reprinted in The Royal Gazette today in full (see page 26), focused on how a ruling made ...
DATE: Jul 16, 2008
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Calls have been made for a public inquiry into how a prisoner hanged himself at Westgate – four years after recommendations that he needed psychiatric help overseas.
Lorenzo Robinson, 28, a paranoid schizophrenic who suffered from depression, was fou...
DATE: Jul 16, 2008
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NEW YORK (AP) – Knox Leon's first report card wasn't great. Or maybe it's just that his twin sister, Vivienne Marcheline, ruined the curve.
When babies are born to celebrities, the burning question — after establishing that everyone's healthy, of cou...
DATE: Jul 16, 2008
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David Hemp will return to the Bermuda national side for the Twenty20 World Cup qualifiers in Ireland in three weeks' time.
Hemp, one of the Island team's star performers at the World Cup in the West Indies last year, will boost the squad as they bid ...
DATE: Jul 16, 2008
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