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Bermuda's straining infrastructure may be the major threat to the future growth prospects of the Island's insurance market, according to a top executive.
XL Re chief executive officer Greg Hendrick told the audience at the Insurance Day Summit this w...
DATE: Jun 13, 2008
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In 1969, Ewart Brown and Phil Perinchief stood shoulder to shoulder on the steps of City Hall, resisting Police attempts to move them on, as they called for Bermuda to change.
Forty years later the pair are poles apart, as Mr. Perinchief says his for...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Americans spent $11 billion on doctors' bills, prescription drugs and other treatments for allergies in 2005, according to government statistics released on Wednesday.
Sneezing, itchy eyes and other miseries caused by allergies...
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Kleenex, Häagen-Dazs and tinned cream were just some of the items Bermudians listed off when asked if prices had gone up on their grocery bills.
As part of The Royal Gazette's series looking at how international economic factors are impacting your wa...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A needle-free vaccine protected more than 70 percent of visitors to Mexico and Guatemala from traveller's diarrhoea, popularly known as Montezuma's Revenge, researchers reported on Wednesday.
Even if travellers did get infected...
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Here are excerpts from editorials in newspapers around the world that may be of interest to our readers:
The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Obama's candidacy:
Regardless of whether you support or oppose Democrat Barack Obama's candidacy for the pres...
DATE: Jun 13, 2008
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LONDON (AP) - British mortgage lenders yesterday reported lending increased modestly for April over the month before but declined from a year ago, and a separate government report underlined the deep slump in the country's housing sector.
The Council...
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VIENNA, Austria (AP) Ivica Vastic scored an injury-time penalty yesterday to give European Championship co-host Austria a 1-1 draw with Poland.
Mariusz Lewandowski pulled the shirt of Sebastian Proedl in the area on a free kick and the referee awarde...
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Two six-graders who aspire to change the world, will attend a United Nations environmental youth conference next week in Norway.
Jahmali Bridgewater, 10, and Noah Marshall, 11, were selected among 11 worthy applicants to attend the 2008 Tunza Interna...
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Government Senator Walton Brown is being sued for more than $10,500 by a former employee who claims he owes her the cash in unpaid wages, health bills and other expenses.
Christen Pears, 32, former managing editor of Bermuda Network News (BNN), claim...
DATE: Jun 13, 2008
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