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Employees at Bermuda Broadcasting Company walked out yesterday alleging poor working conditions - less than six months after walking out over the same thing.
Yesterday at noon, employees staged a sick-out and the news went off air. They are reportedl...
DATE: Dec 05, 2007
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Many hedge funds have had a rough ride this year, particularly in August and November, but a number have benefited from the market volatility to produce substantial gains, fund managers and others said yesterday.
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DATE: Dec 05, 2007
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KeyTech boosted its profits by almost $3.5 million over the six-month period to the end of September, mainly due to the improved financial performance of its five subsidiaries.
The utilities company's consolidated net income for the six month period ...
DATE: Dec 05, 2007
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The splendour of Christmas in the Caribbean will be celebrated this Friday at a party jointly hosted by the local Barbados Association, Jamaican Association and West Indian Association.
The Caribbean Community Christmas bash will begin at 7 p.m. on F...
DATE: Dec 05, 2007
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LONDON (AP) — Tesco PLC, the British grocery chain that recently began a rollout of stores in the United States, reported yesterday that its burgeoning international operations underpinned strong third-quarter sales.
Sales at Tesco's stores in Britai...
DATE: Dec 05, 2007
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LONDON (Bloomberg) - Citigroup Inc.'s Sedna Finance Corp. had $867 million of junior-ranking debt downgraded 12 levels to CCC by Fitch Ratings after declines in the structured investment vehicle's assets.
The cut from Fitch comes as Moody's Investors...
DATE: Dec 05, 2007
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain could be heading for a another housing market crash if thousands of buy-to-let investors ditch their properties as prices tumble, according to top fund manager Nicola Horlick.
The City "Superwoman" reckons defaults on buy-t...
DATE: Dec 05, 2007
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The United Bermuda Party yesterday expanded on its "three strikes and you're out programme," explaining it would mean mandatory prison term extensions for the third serious offence.
However, Progressive Labour Party Minister David Burch yesterday dis...
DATE: Dec 05, 2007
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Bermuda-based MF Global Ltd., the world's largest broker of exchange-traded futures and options contracts, will pay $75 million to settle claims it helped a Philadelphia hedge fund hide trading losses from investors.
The case s...
DATE: Dec 05, 2007
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ¿ A small publishing house did not have to dig far to unearth a long-buried book Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Wallace Stegner wrote a half-century ago about oil exploration in the Middle East.
The owner of Selwa Press, Timothy B...
DATE: Dec 05, 2007
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