What employees can legally say on Facebook—and get away with
By Rebekah Mintzer, From Corporate Counsel Facebook had more than 1 billion daily active users around the world as of September. That’s a lot of timeline posts and status updates, and many involve the workplace. This leaves employers in a…
Stanford requests rehearing of his criminal appeal
By Kenneth Rijock From Caribbean News Now HOUSTON, USA — Offshore banker and convicted Ponzi schemer, R. Allen Stanford, has filed a petition for an en banc rehearing, with the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. The Fifth Circuit has previously…
USA: Debate likely to continue into 2016 on companies providing info to law enforcement
By Ed Silverstein, From Legaltech News It is likely legislators will continue to debate proposals requiring companies to provide info to law enforcement and intelligence officials – if suspected terrorism is involved. As members of Congress look to 2016, it…
Quantifying 10 years of improvements in earthquake monitoring in the Caribbean region
Seismological Research Letters By: Daniel E. McNamara, Christa Hillebrandt-Andrade, Jean-Marie Saurel, V. Huerfano-Moreno, and Lloyd Lynch Abstract Over 75 tsunamis have been documented in the Caribbean and adjacent regions during the past 500 years. Since 1500, at least 4484 people…
Saturna Capital Invests $531,000 in WuXi PharmaTech (Cayman) Inc. (WX)
December 22nd, From ABMN Staff WuXi PharmaTech (Cayman) logoSaturna Capital acquired a new position in shares of WuXi PharmaTech (Cayman) Inc. (NYSE:WX) during the third quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission…
Caribbean Getaway: Islands sell citizenship to spur construction deals
By CRAIG KARMIN From Wall Street Journal Developer Valmiki Kempadoo said he has made about 200 sales at his Kittitian Hill hillside development on St. Kitts to citizenship-by-investment owners. Tiny island nations like St. Kitts and Nevis, Dominica and Grenada…
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Latin America and the Caribbean
From MOFA Ministry of Foreign Affairs Japan With a population of 600 million and a regional GDP of approximately $6 trillion (2013), Latin America and the Caribbean is an enormous market. The region has steadily increased its presence in the…
Gadget of the week
Sony’s Folding@Home Android app now fights cancer while you sleep By Jon Fingas From engadget Sony’s Folding@Home works while you sleep Want to help cure Alzheimer’s or breast cancer? From now on, you don’t have to do much more than…
Carnival cruise ship aids Cubans stranded at sea on its way to Cayman Islands
From Bay News9 MIAMI — A Carnival cruise ship made a rescue of 16 Cuban nationals Sunday in the Caribbean Sea. The Cubans were stranded on a makeshift raft just south of western Cuba. The Carnival Glory, on its way…
Money for nothing:
Money for nothing: one hundred dollars “destroyed” for art by Marcus Kraft From Designer Daily Swiss designer and artist Marcus Kraft released this interesting project recently. Kraft took a hundred one dollar bills and turned them into art. The US…
