Panama Papers: Denmark to buy leaked data
From BBC Denmark will buy data leaked from the law firm at the heart of the Panama Papers scandal, Taxation Minister Karsten Lauritzen has announced. An anonymous offer to sell data involving up to 600 Danish citizens was made to…
Three J’cans among seven nabbed in US drug bust
From Jamaica Observer SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (CMC) – Seven Caribbean nationals have been apprehended following two massive drug seizures by the United States Coast Guard in the region. On Friday, the Coast Guard said it seized contraband – with…
Cayman Islands’ Chevening scholars honoured
A farewell reception was held by Her Excellency the Governor Mrs. Helen Kilpatrick on Tuesday, (30 August 2016) to recognise the success of two young Caymanians who were awarded the prestigious Chevening Scholarship. Richard Tyson and Christina Ross, both civil…
Zurich Supreme Court rules on bank secrecy violations and whistleblowing by former banker [in Cayman Islands]
By Thomas Rihm Contributed by Rihm Rechtsanwälte From ILO On August 19 2016 the Zurich Supreme Court rendered a long-awaited decision regarding a former Swiss banker who between 1994 and 2002 worked as head of accounting and later as general…
Technology is finally changing the apartment rental experience
By Omri Barzilay Techcrunch The real estate rental market is a highly localized, relationship-based industry driven largely by individuals living and working in their own cities, causing many to acknowledge the longstanding difficulty of streamlining disruption to this market. In…
Body implants
10 of the craziest things people have implanted in their bodies By Kristen V. Brown, Fusion From Business Insider Cyborgs are not science future; sophisticated chips and sensor implants that merge man with machine are already here. There are people…
Chinese space theme park to send tourists to the stratosphere
By Sean Buckley From engadget ‘Future Valley’ theme park will put people in near-space high altitude balloons. Until Virgin Galactic launches, the only way to get to space as a civilian is to pay Russia a cool $20 million. If you’re…
Hero’s welcome home for first Turks & Caicos Olympian
From NAN News Americas, PROVIDENCIALES, Turks & Caicos, Sun. Sept. 4, 2016: Turks & Caicos islanders threw an island-wide party in TCI on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2016 to welcome home their first and only Olympian, Delano Williams back to the…
What to make of the Japanese market
By: Ashley Kindergan From The Financialist What’s next for Japanese corporate earnings? Well, that depends. Consider the April-to-June Japanese earnings season, which can be considered a pleasant surprise or a bleak portend based on which numbers you choose to accentuate….
As long as robots look adorable and make us coffee, we’ll be eating out of their robotic hands
By Brian Heater From Techcrunch It doesn’t take much. For all the bluster around the conversation about Skynet and robotic overlords, we still melt when a diminutive robot flashes the slightest hint of humanity through a small set of…
