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Calls by UK MPs for freedom of information legislation to be introduced in all the British Overseas Territories should spur Bermuda into action, according to former Premier Alex Scott.
A newly published report from the UK Foreign Affairs Committee (F...
DATE: Jul 09, 2008
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BEIJING (Bloomberg) — Cosco Shipping Company, a unit of China's biggest shipping company, said first-half profit surged by 141 per cent from a year earlier.
Net income rose to 853 million yuan ($124 million), or 1.3 yuan per share, from 355 million y...
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A local French culture organisation plans to celebrate Bastille Day the old fashioned way with good food and a game of boules on the lawn.
Bastille Day is the French national holiday similar to Independence Day in the United States. It recognises the...
DATE: Jul 09, 2008
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Bermuda-based Fulcrum Group, a hedge fund administrator has appointed Jill Considine, former chairman and CEO of the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) in New York, as chairman of its board of directors.
"Fulcrum is at a turning point in ...
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Premier Ewart Brown said plans for a new multi-million dollar hotel complex to replace Club Med would show the world Bermuda is "open for business".
In the House of Assembly last Friday, the Premier said he would shortly be tabling new legislation to...
DATE: Jul 09, 2008
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Young adults who were born very small tend to strike out on their own later in life than their full-term peers, Finnish researchers report.
Individuals in their late teens and twenties who weighed less than 1,500 grams (th...
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NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) — John Templeton, an investor and mutual fund pioneer who dedicated much of his fortune to promoting religion and reconciling it with science, has died. He was 95.
Templeton died yesterday from pneumonia at Doctors Hospital in Na...
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Bermuda's Emergency Measures Organisation will today discuss plans for the approaching Hurricane Bertha — although the storm was last night downgraded to a Category One.
Forecasters said Bertha — which at 6 p.m. yesterday was 780 miles southeast of t...
DATE: Jul 09, 2008
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Dear Annie: My husband of over 25 years has a large number of friends and acquaintances listed in his e-mail address book with whom he exchanges jokes, news, pictures and, at times, porn. This sometimes includes very explicit videos.
He shares the ma...
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Having made history on Monday by winning an Intercontinental Cup match for the first time, Bermuda's current crop of cricketers will make a little bit more tomorrow when they step onto the field at the National Sports Centre for their four-day game a...
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