Bruce Rauner changes tune on secret Cayman Islands accounts/Quinn’s double standard
Bruce Rauner changes tune on secret Cayman Islands accounts From Governor Pat Quinn Pattern Emerges of Rauner Hiding the Truth CHICAGO – The Chicago Tribune is reporting that Bruce Rauner changed his story about whether he set up accounts in…
3 new cases for Chikungunya in Cayman Islands being tested – no new positive cases/Caribbean top 500,000 cases
From Cayman Islands Public Health Department Chikungunya update for Cayman Islands as of 4 August 2014 Total cases investigated for chikungunya since 25 June 2014 is 13. Since the last update on 28 July 2014, there have been three new…
Bashar chosen as team manager for West Indies tour
From The Daily Star Chandika joins HP revival chorus The importance of reviving the High Performance Unit (HP) is once again being discussed in the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) as head coach Chandika Hathurusingha is placing emphasis on discarded national…
The ‘Cuban Twitter’ covert program: Misleading denials by the Obama Administration
By Howard Friel From Common Dreams A simple reading of the report last week by the Associated Press that a U.S. State Department agency was engaged in a destabilization program in Cuba suggests that administration officials who responded to the…
AES pitches DR as hub of US-sourced natural gas network in Caribbean
By Kevin Mead From Caribbean Business AES Corporation is pitching its liquefied natural gas (LNG) infrastructure in the Dominican Republic as a potential hub to supply cleaner, cheaper energy to other Caribbean islands. “The confluence of market forces, required infrastructure…
BSkyB in £5bn deal to create Sky Europe
From BBC The move was announced along with the company’s annual results, which show pre-tax profits fell slightly to £1.2bn from last year’s £1.26bn. BSkyB also reported revenues rose by 7%, with strong demand “across the board” for its services….
HSBC closes bank accounts of Muslim organisations
By Tim Worstall From Forbes HSBC has closed the UK bank accounts of a series of Muslim organisations and those associated with them. This is causing some uproar as they’ve not explained very well why they’ve done this. It is…
New 3D bioprinter to reproduce human organs, change the face of healthcare: The inside story
By Lyndsey Gilpin From Tech Republic TechRepublic’s Jason Hiner also contributed to this article. IMAGE: Dr. Jay Hoying explains how BioAssemblyBot (right) will advance the creation of a “Total Bioficial Heart.” Image: Lyndsey Gilpin/TechRepublic Researchers are only steps away from…
Of ‘election’ changes and CCJ
By Rickey Singh From Trinidad Express SO, in this 52nd year of its political independence from the United Kingdom, Trinidad and Tobago has chosen to engage in historic constitutional pace-setting changes to give a significantly new meaning to multi-party electoral…
Cayman’s Ritz-Carlton makes Caribbean Journal’s TOP 10
From Caribbean Journal The 10 Best Caribbean Luxury Resorts For Families — 2014 There are many great luxury resorts in the Caribbean. There are many great family resorts in the Caribbean. But not all of members of the former group…
