Monday 9 June 2008

Birks and Mayors signs exclusive partnership for the distribution of ...

Birks & Mayors signs exclusive partnership for the distribution of ...

MONTREAL, June 2 /CNW/ - Birks & Mayors Inc. has announced today that they have entered into a partnership to be the exclusive distributor of Botswana ...
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Bank Of Botswana Adjusts Rates

Bank Of Botswana Adjusts Rates

At the meeting held last Monday, the Bank of Botswana Monetary Policy Committee decided to increase the Bank Rate by half a percentage point (50 basis ...

IAMGOLD Announces Operational Improvements Impacting Reserve Life ...

IAMGOLD Announces Operational Improvements Impacting Reserve Life ...

The Company's Mupane gold mining operation located in Botswana in Southern Africa, will convert the current contractor mining arrangement to owner mining. ...
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African Copper plans Botswana Mowana mine start in July

African Copper plans Botswana Mowana mine start in July

L: Quote, Profile, Research) plans to start production at its Mowana mine in Botswana in July and achieve 25000 tonnes a year after 2012, the company's ...

Olympia Capital Eyes Another Acquisition

Olympia Capital Eyes Another Acquisition

The company, which originates from Kenya, listed on the Botswana Stock Exchange (BSE) in 2005 as a "speculative stock" and later migrated to the main board ...
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Moyo Warns Fraudsters As Capital Bank Opens

Moyo Warns Fraudsters As Capital Bank Opens

The Assistant Minister of Finance Guma Moyo has said the growing incidence of financial crime in Botswana should not be overlooked. ...
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New Botswana Diamond Mine to Start production in June

New Botswana Diamond Mine to Start production in June

Botswana is gearing up to welcome its newest diamond mine as DiamonEx Ltd said Thursday it is on schedule to start production at the Lerala mine in June. ...
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BoB Raises Bank Rate to Tackle Inflation

BoB Raises Bank Rate to Tackle Inflation

The Bank of Botswana (BoB) yesterday silenced its critics when it responded to rising inflation with an increase in its benchmark rates by half a percentage ...
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Botswana, Africa's Hidden Gem

Botswana, Africa's Hidden Gem
Epoch Times - New York, NY, USA
By Radcliffe Dockery Newly elected Botswana president Ian Khama swears in on April 1, 2008 at an official ceremony in the Botswana capital Gaborone. ...

BRIEF CASE

BRIEF CASE
Mmegi - Gaborone, Botswana
The Botswana Diamond Manufacturers Association (BDMA) was granted membership of the International Diamond Manufacturers Association (IDMA) at a conference ...
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Botswana Brand Board Appointed

Botswana Brand Board Appointed
Mmegi - Gaborone, Botswana
By Business Reporter A seven-member Interim Board of Directors has been appointed to speed up the implementation of the Brand Botswana Management ...
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British investors buying up properties on Anna Maria ...

British investors buying up properties on Anna Maria ...
Sarasota Herald-Tribune - Sarasota, FL, USA
Jewelry retailer Birks & Mayors Inc. has entered into a partnership with a factory in Botswana to be its exclusive distributor of diamonds in North America. ...
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Botswana Diamond Exports up 60% in Q1

Botswana Diamond Exports up 60% in Q1
Israel Diamond Portal - Ramat Gan, Israel
Botswana’s rough diamond exports grew by 63.6% and 53.9% measured in Pula and US Dollar terms respectively in the first quarter of 2008, compared to exports ...
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Tech Mahindra bags multi-million dollar BTC deal

Tech Mahindra bags multi-million dollar BTC deal
Business Standard - Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Tech Mahindra, solution providers in the telecom space, bagged a multi-million dollar deal with Botswana Tele-Communications (BTC), a state owned ...

Botswana's Finance Minister Says Diamond Demand Is `Reasonable'

Botswana's Finance Minister Says Diamond Demand Is `Reasonable'
Bloomberg - USA
By Nasreen Seria and Mike Cohen June 6 (Bloomberg) -- Botswana's Finance Minister Baledzi Gaolathe said diamond demand is still ``reasonable,'' even as ...
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Tafic Players Cry Foul

Tafic Players Cry Foul
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
When they trot on to the field to display their soccer skills against opponents, TAFIC players give it their all. Trouble is - some of them might be doing ...

Makgalemele Needs to Be More Honest

Makgalemele Needs to Be More Honest
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
The Botswana Football Association (BFA) president, Phillip Makgalemele, should take himself and the nation seriously. It is inappropriate for him or any ...
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Tech Mahindra in multi-million dlr deal in Botswana

Reuters India - Mumbai, India
BO: Quote, Profile, Research) on Thursday announced a multi-million dollar deal with Botswana Telecommunications Corp (BTC) to provide system integration ...
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Norilsk Delays Botswana Activox Nickel Project Indefinitely

Norilsk Delays Botswana Activox Nickel Project Indefinitely
Bloomberg - USA
By Yuriy Humber June 4 (Bloomberg) -- OAO GMK Norilsk Nickel, the largest producer of the steel additive, postponed indefinitely a project in Botswana that ...
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Norilsk postpones Botswana nickel refinery project

Reuters - USA
MM: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Wednesday it had postponed a project to refine nickel in Botswana as costs had escalated beyond an earlier estimate of ...
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Botswana power project costs could top $10 bln-AfDB

DSC_0787Image by dominik.kreutz via Flickr
Reuters India - Mumbai, India
CAPE TOWN, June 4 (Reuters) - The African Development Bank said on Wednesday that the cost of Botswana's giant Mmamabula energy project could rise way above ...
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De Beers moves diamond sorting from London

Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
By Philip Aldrick London is to lose an association with diamonds that stretches back 80 years as De Beers moves its central sorting operations to Botswana. ...
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CIC Energy warns of further delays to Botswana power project

Creamer Media's Mining Weekly - Garden View, South Africa
Toronto- and Botswana-listed CIC Energy declined 13,4% on Monday, after the company said that new negotiations with electricity offtakers for its Mmamabula ...
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Botswana raises bank rate by 50 bps to 15 percent

TOKYO - FEBRUARY 09: G7 finance ministers (front row) and central bank governors (back row) pose for a group picture during the Group of Seven Finance Ministers' and Central Bank Governors' Meeting at Mita Kaigisho on February 9, 2008 in Tokyo, Japan. Front Row (L to R) Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde, German Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck, Japanese Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga, Italian Economy and Finance Minister Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, British Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling, U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Luxembourg Prime Minister and chairman of the Eurogroup Jean-Claude Juncker. Back Row (L to R) Bank of Canada Governor David Dodge, Bank of France Governor Christian Noyer, German Bundesbank President Axel Weber, Bank of Japan Governor Toshihiko Fukui, Bank of Italy Governor Mario Draghi, Bank of England Governor Mervyn King, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board (FRB) Ben Bernanke, European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet and IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn.Image by Getty Images via Daylife
Reuters South Africa - Johannesburg, South Africa
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Botswana's central bank lifted its bank rate by 50 basis points to 15 percent on Monday, saying risks to the inflation outlook were ...
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Botswana Central Bank Raises Key Rate by Half Point (Update1)

Bloomberg - USA
By Nasreen Seria May 26 (Bloomberg) -- Botswana's central bank raised its benchmark lending rate by half a percentage point, the first adjustment in almost ...
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Talking Musika

Modern buildings in GaboroneImage via WikipediaTalking Musika
Mmegi - Gaborone, Botswana
That presents one of the biggest problems that Botswana faces. Government has been all too keen to stifle civil society initiatives, so that it would later ...
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BLUE LISTING WILL BOOST

Botswana Stock ExchangeImage via WikipediaBLUE LISTING WILL BOOST
The Voice Online - Gaborone, Southern Africa, Botswana
Heunes told The Voice after the company listed on BSE last Friday that the Botswana listing has two-fold benefits for Batswana. First, Blue has wealth of ...
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Young Indian Billionaire Courts Botswana

Modern buildings in GaboroneImage via WikipediaYoung Indian Billionaire Courts Botswana
Mmegi - Gaborone, Botswana
By Wanetsha Mosinyi India's youngest self-made billionaire, Jignesh Shah, was in Botswana last week on a fact finding mission to "revolutionalise the way ...
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Botswana economy to benefit from new African commodities exchange

Map of BotswanaImage via WikipediaBotswana economy to benefit from new African commodities exchange
Creamer Media's Mining Weekly - Garden View, South Africa
The new African commodities exchange to be opened in Botswana will bring jobs, tax revenues and the transfer of technology and expertise to the country, ...
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PAN AFRICAN COMMODITIES EXCHANGE LAUNCHED IN BOTSWANA

Many African countries today have more than one official language.Image via WikipediaPAN AFRICAN COMMODITIES EXCHANGE LAUNCHED IN BOTSWANA
Tacy - Ramat Gan, Israel
Mompati Merafhe, the Vice President of Botswana, has launched the Multi-Commodities Exchange (MCX) for Africa under the International Financial Services ...
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Botswana Commodity Bourse to Boost Economy, President Says

Tourist Resort at Kasane, BotswanaImage via WikipediaBotswana Commodity Bourse to Boost Economy, President Says
Bloomberg - USA
By Joseph Balise May 23 (Bloomberg) -- Botswana's new pan-African commodities and derivatives exchange will boost the development of the southern African ...
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Zimbabwe: RBZ Suspends Fungibility of Shares

Zimbabwe Stock ExchangeImage via WikipediaZimbabwe: RBZ Suspends Fungibility of Shares
Washington, USA
The exchange rate would be calculated by dividing the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange price of the counters by the London Stock Exchange or Botswana Stock Exchange ...
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