Ben Needham search: Officer recalled to UK after team ‘drinking session’
From BBC A senior policeman investigating the disappearance of Ben Needham on a Greek island has been summoned back to the UK amid reports members of his team went on an eight-hour drinking session. Police are investigating a report in…
A Chinese company plans to charge people to store the ‘memories’ of dead people
By Ben Gilbert, Tech Insider From Business Insider Forget about the next smartphone — one Chinese tech company is trying to disrupt mortality. “Hunger, poverty, disease or even death may not be a problem by 2035, or 25 years from…
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Tony Cozier 1940-2016: A Bajan boy steeped in Caribbean flavours
By VANEISA BAKSH From ESPN cricinfo Cozier came to be the voice of West Indian cricket because he knew the game, and the landscape it came from, intimately His voice was an inseparable part of West Indies cricket. And no voice…
Traditional banks may be in trouble due to digital banking
By BI Intelligence From Business Insider The BI Intelligence Content Marketing Team covers news & research we think you would find valuable. More millennials are moving toward digital banking, and as a result, they’re walking into their banks’ traditional brick-and-mortar branches less…
US: Lawyer who pleaded guilty to embezzlement disbarred
By Ben Bedell, From New York Law Journal An in-house attorney who pleaded guilty to embezzling $2.6 million from his home health care employer was disbarred Tuesday by the Appellate Division, First Department. Over a four-year period, Matthew Neugeboren had his…
St Martin: Yacht intercepted with 588 kilos of cocaine on board
By SXM TALKS MARIGOT–A Customs vessel from St. Martin was one of two vessels along with a helicopter that took part in an operation last week Wednesday leading to a seizure of 588 kilos of cocaine from a sailing yacht,…
Anti-Corruption Summit: IFC Forum calls for shareholder data to be effectively verified
The IFC Forum welcomes the Anti-Corruption Summit’s commitment to improving the accuracy of beneficial ownership information available to tax and law enforcement authorities. Data verification is required to effectively combat crime and corruption. For over a decade the British Crown…
Caribbean Development Bank to hold Annual Meeting in Montego Bay, Jamaica
On May 18 and 19, 2016, Heads of States, Ministers of Finance and High Level Representatives of 28 countries will assemble in Montego Bay, Jamaica for the Forty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the Caribbean Development Bank’s (CDB) Board of Governors. At…
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US energy summit sets out alternatives to PetroCaribe
From The Caribbean Council A US-Caribbean-Central American Energy Summit held in Washington has set out an extensive programme of US and multilateral support aimed at diversifying the Caribbean’s energy sources. The gradual lessening of the region’s use of hydrocarbons is…
Big law women talk about abortion (their own)
By Vivia Chen, From The Careerist Most lawyers I know are a bit uptight. They don’t usually reveal too much information, particularly if it might cast them in a negative or controversial light. They don’t even like to admit to…
