Cayman Islands Airports Authority thanks student volunteers
Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands (7 March 2017) The Cayman Islands Airports Authority (CIAA) recently presented certificates of appreciation to students at the Layman E. Scott Senior High School in Cayman Brac to thank them for volunteering to act as victims…
Most women prefer to be working and the majority of men agree, ILO-Gallup report shows
GENEVA / WASHINGTON (ILO News – Gallup) – The ILO-Gallup report, “Towards a better future for women and work: Voices of women and men ”, provides a first-ever account of global attitudes and perceptions of women and men regarding women…
Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales delivers lecture at Cayman Islands courts
From Caribbean News Now GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands — Improving practices among commercial courts worldwide translates into strengthening international trade, commerce and development, and hence overall economic cooperation and prosperity. Achieving and maintaining that equilibrium requires not only vigilance among…
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Despite Zika & Chikungunya, record 29M Caribbean visits in 2016
From Point Me to the Plane The 2016 numbers are in and the Caribbean had a record year in terms of visitors and cruise ship passengers. Arrivals were north of 29 million, a bump of +4.2% since the prior year and…
The founder of the world’s biggest hedge fund just railed at the New York Times — at one of the paper’s own events
By Rachael Levy From Business Insider Billionaire Ray Dalio just went off on the New York Times again – this time at one of the newspaper’s own events. “I’d like to talk about the ridiculous New York Times article,” Dalio…
Giving business what it wants – a well run court for commercial and business disputes
GRAND COURT OF THE CAYMAN ISLANDS GUEST LECTURE 2017 THE RIGHT HON. THE LORD THOMAS OF CWMGIEDD LORD CHIEF JUSTICE OF ENGLAND AND WALES 2 March 2017 1. It is a pleasure and privilege to have been invited to give…
Mexico’s criminal and political worlds are shifting, and 2017 is off to the most violent start on record
By Christopher Woody From Business Insider Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party, in one form or another, ran Mexico as a de facto one-party state from the 1930s until 2000, when Vicente Fox interrupted the PRI’s hold on the presidency. The PRI…
Lax Oversight of Swiss Lawyers Blamed in EU’s Panama Probe
By Joe Kirwin From Bloomberg BNA Switzerland’s lack of regulatory oversight for lawyers, as well as loopholes that allow them to ignore due-diligence rules, came under intense scrutiny at a European Parliament hearing probing Switzerland’s role in the year-old Panama…
Everyone is talking about WikiLeaks’ massive CIA data dump — here’s what’s going on
By Kif Leswing From Business Insider WikiLeaks on Tuesdaypublished a large cache of documents that it said are from the CIA that relate to its hacking tools. An intelligence sourceconfirmed to The Wall Street Journal some of the contents of…
The Pentagon got caught trying to hide embarrassing cost overruns on Navy ships
By Paul Szoldra From Business Insider If the data you need to release to the public is potentially embarrassing, there’s always classification review to the rescue. The US Government Accountability Office deleted details of cost overruns on two of the…
