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Community Events NWDA Community Outreach The National Workforce Development Agency (NWDA), in an effort to provide improved customer service to its clients in their job seeking efforts, will have a representative at the district libraries to provide: Opportunities to…
Cayman Islands court’s first valuation verdict on minority side
By Quintella Koh From International Adviser East Capital, a Swedish fund company specialising in emerging and frontier markets, said it won a landmark case in the Cayman Islands defending the rights of minority shareholders. The case, involving Russian oilfield services…
Preliminary report on arsenic poisoning at Cayman Islands farm points to no concerns
The Pan American Health Organization has issued an Arsenic Exposure Preliminary Report to the 14.5-acre Powell family farm in Frank Sound, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands. It points to no significant differences between the arsenic content of soils from the test…
The Editor Speaks: All is not peace and tranquility at Turtle Farm
The Cayman Islands Turtle Farm is a red hot potato “The Cayman Turtle Farm is the last sea turtle farm on earth that breeds sea turtles for human consumption. But there is no humane way to farm sea turtles. “The…
CAB requests the removal of named Caribbean territories on US “Tax-haven” list
The Caribbean Association of Banks Inc. (CAB) is once more forced to express its deep concern over yet another “tax-haven” list which includes 15 Commonwealth Caribbean countries. The referred list appears within the District of Columbia’s 2015 Budget Support Act…
Disney Cruise Line releases early 2017 Bahamas, [Cayman Islands] and Caribbean itineraries
By Leah Zanolla From DIS Disney Cruise Line has released their Caribbean and Bahamas itineraries for early 2017. The four cruise ships will continue sailing from Port Canaveral and Miami, as well as San Juan, Puerto Rico and Galveston, Texas….
How Export Competitive is the Caribbean?
Bridgetown, BARBADOS, October 6, 2015. A new initiative to measure the Export Competitiveness of CARIFORUM is being spearheaded by the Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export) it was announced yesterday at the opening of the first workshop on the conceptualisation…
Marriott plans to open 60 new hotels in the Caribbean and Latin America by 2018
From Marriott International, Inc. SAO PAULO, Oct. 6, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Tim Sheldon, President of Caribbean and Latin America operations at Marriott International (NASDAQ: MAR), announced today an expected 75 percent increase in Marriott’s Caribbean and Latin American distribution between…
Former Cayman Islands Minister of Education replies to damning statements made by Auditor General in Report on Schools when he was in charge
Statement by Rolston Anglin, JP On Auditor General Report Major Capital Project – Building Schools Former Minister of Education 2009-2013 Appearing before the Public Accounts Committee October 1, 2015 The Auditor General issued his report Major Capital Projects – Building…
UPDATE 3-Caribbean telecom company Digicel hangs up on IPO
By Rachel Chitra From Reuters * Cites market conditions in emerging markets * Co was expected to raise about $2 bln from U.S. IPO (Adds analysts’ comments, IPO market background) Oct 6 (Reuters) – Digicel Group Ltd, the Caribbean telecommunications…
