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JERUSALEM (Bloomberg) - Migdal Insurance Holdings, Israel's biggest life insurer, said parent Assicurazioni Generali SpA will buy a portion of its reinsurance contracts.
Migdal's shares posted the biggest gain in four years.
The agreement will help M...
DATE: Jan 03, 2008
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I have often mentioned the adage 'what you create you have to maintain', which in many many cases is due to the fact the garden design was not thought through, with the result it has now becomes a heavy burden on the purse.
Mother Nature is not progr...
DATE: Jan 03, 2008
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Congratulations to:
Kaaron Brown, of Cocoa Lane, St. David's, who celebrated her 5th birthday recently.
Chrishaunte Caisey, of 6 Cedars Lane, Sandys, who celebrates her birthday today.
Marsha Dubois, of 40 Stovell Bay Lane, Pembroke, who celebrates h...
DATE: Jan 03, 2008
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The United Bermuda Party will not disband, according to UBP MP Shawn Crockwell.
Yesterday, the UBP's parliamentary group gathered for one of the first meetings scheduled for the next couple of weeks.
Mr. Crockwell said that while many options had and...
DATE: Jan 03, 2008
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Reinsurance renewal prices have continued to fall across the board for 2008, leaving reinsurers exposed to taking a bigger hit in the event of a natural disaster.
Some areas of reinsurance are faring better than others, with the cost of marine reinsu...
DATE: Jan 03, 2008
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The Horizons-2 satellite joint venture between Bermuda-registered Intelsat and Japan's JSAT Corporation, will fulfill a security role for the East Coast of the US as well as providing commercial use for the Caribbean, the US and Canada.
As reported i...
DATE: Jan 03, 2008
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Bermuda's military conscription policy has prompted three men to complain to the British Parliament.
Letters opposing the draft were submitted by Sergio Lottimore, David McCann and Brian Swan as part of an ongoing Foreign Affairs Committee inquiry in...
DATE: Jan 03, 2008
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A housesitter tackled and detained a burglar he found in the Hamilton Parish home he was looking after.
On the night of December 29, the housesitter gave a friend a lift home and when he returned, he found Antoine O'Brien standing in the North Shore ...
DATE: Jan 03, 2008
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Downplaying the significance of lowering Bermuda's economic outlook from 'positive' to 'stable' by one of the world's leading debt rating agencies is a mistake, Shadow Finance Minister Pat Gordon-Pamplin has warned.
And the Acting Opposition Leader s...
DATE: Jan 02, 2008
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Belco has been given clearance to raise it electricity rates to customers by 2.5 percent every year for the next four years. In the fifth year the rates will rise three percent.
By putting up the amount it charges, the electricity company expects to ...
DATE: Jan 02, 2008
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