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A Bermudian teenager has won $20,000 on a US reality TV show after transforming himself from a bully's sidekick to a youngster with leadership potential.
Blaine Wise has been featuring on Kid Nation, which documents how he and 39 others aged eight to...
DATE: Nov 23, 2007
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The Royal Gazette is inviting Bermuda's writers to submit entries for the newspaper's annual Christmas Short Story Contest. The deadline is Monday, December 3 at 5 p.m.
Stories may be fiction or non-fiction. Cash prizes will be presented in each of t...
DATE: Nov 23, 2007
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Trading has continued to be buoyant for Kiln over 2007, despite operating at only 98 percent of last year's performance level.
The specialist insurance and reinsurance group's Kiln Syndicate 510 recorded a rating level across the portfolio of busines...
DATE: Nov 23, 2007
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LONDON (Reuters) - European pharmaceutical stocks, which have languished in the sick bay for months, staged their biggest daily gains in more than four-and-a-half years yesterday as some investors called a bottom to the battered sector.
AstraZeneca P...
DATE: Nov 23, 2007
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The United Bermuda Party has detailed how it plans to fund an estimated $20-22 million in tax cuts.
A key tenet of its election platform is to abolish payroll tax for those earning below $42,000 per year. Currently employers pay Government payroll ta...
DATE: Nov 23, 2007
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LONDON (Bloomberg) - HSBC Holdings Plc, Europe's largest bank by market value, may post lower earnings next year as bad-debt provisions and losses rise more than estimated in the US, analysts at Merrill Lynch & Co. said.
Net income at the London-base...
DATE: Nov 23, 2007
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LONDON (Bloomberg) — Pinewood Shepperton Plc, owner of the studios where James Bond and Harry Potter movies are made, fell the most in two-and-a-half years in London trading after saying production for a "major film" ended before shooting started.
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DATE: Nov 23, 2007
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Protesters who claim a new property law discriminates against Bermudians married to foreigners have welcomed a legal opinion that it may breach their human rights.
According to Human Rights Commission chairman Venous Memari, a lawyer has deemed that ...
DATE: Nov 23, 2007
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The Premier's press secretary declined to reveal how much was spent on five plane tickets to the World Tourism Summit in China.
The Opposition have claimed it would have cost approximately $62,000 for four people to travel first class to China in Oct...
DATE: Nov 23, 2007
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You've most probably heard the latest airport alert. Government officials going through security at Los Angeles and Chicago's O'Hare airports carrying mock test bombs got through an alarming number of times without detection.
Seventy-five per cent es...
DATE: Nov 23, 2007
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