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Opposition Leader Kim Swan claimed last night that Bermuda's tourism "off season" was now eight months long — a theory Premier Ewart Brown rejected as a "figment of his imagination".
Mr. Swan said he welcomed Government's recent half a million dollar...
DATE: Apr 21, 2008
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Citigroup Inc. shareholders, cheered by a $5.1 billion first-quarter loss that wasn't as big as some analysts forecast, face growing concern that the bank may have to sell assets, reduce the dividend and attract outside investm...
DATE: Apr 21, 2008
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Education Minister Randy Horton claimed on Friday that teachers' complaints about having to cover too many classes — which have now been referred to a tribunal — were unfounded.
Mr. Horton, in a statement rebutting the Bermuda Union of Teachers' (BUT...
DATE: Apr 21, 2008
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) – A new exhibit at the University of Pennsylvania about human evolution gives a new meaning to the expression "nobody's perfect''.
Scientists say we have evolution to thank for our survival, but that it's also where we can point the...
DATE: Apr 21, 2008
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SAO PAULO (Bloomberg) — Bermuda-based Cosan Ltd., parent of the world's biggest sugar-cane processor, failed to buy back enough shares of its operating unit to delist it in a stock-swap auction on Friday.
Minority investors of Cosan SA Industria e Co...
DATE: Apr 21, 2008
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The outgoing captain of the Spirit of Bermuda sail training vessel has praised the programme, but warned it needed continual community support.
The tall ship was launched in 2006 by Bermuda Sloop Foundation to teach young Bermudians about teamwork.
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DATE: Apr 21, 2008
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At a glance — bringing in the Police and Criminal Evidence Act:
August 2008: Phase One
— Fingerprints, photographs and DNA taken from all persons arrested for certain offences. Fingerprints stored digitally, DNA stored pending the set up of a nationa...
DATE: Apr 21, 2008
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Marcel Granollers-Pujol will arrive at this week's XL Bermuda Open full of confidence after beating James Blake 6-4, 1-6, 7-5 in the US Men's Clay Court Championships for his first tour title.
The seventh-seeded Spaniard came back from 3-0 down in th...
DATE: Apr 21, 2008
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Veteran Bermuda swimmer Chris Smith placed fourth in his first final at the FINA World Masters Championships in Perth, Australia on Saturday, competing in the 800 metres freestyle.
Smith, who has a home in Canada and is representing an Ontario team, ...
DATE: Apr 21, 2008
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PHC Zebras 2 Dandy Town 0
PHC Zebras carved their name into the record book for all the right reasons at the National Sports Centre (NSC) yesterday where they shut out Dandy Town to raise an unprecedented tenth Bermuda Football Association Challenge ...
DATE: Apr 21, 2008
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