Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners Cayman Conference
23-24 Jan 2020 The Ritz-Carlton, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners Cayman Conference topics will include are the dos and don’ts of handling sensitive issues with a difficult settlor, building the perfect offshore jurisdiction, family offices…
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Plastic Recycling Project ‘RePLAST OECS’ launches in Saint Lucia
By Felix Finisterre Senior Project Manager, Saint Lucia Office, UNITE Caribbean OECS Media Statement Thursday, August 8, 2019 — Environmental stakeholders from the public and private sectors in Saint Lucia lent their support and expertise towards the successful launch and two-day…
5 essential tips on how to sell your house by owner (FSBO)
It’s time to move on. Put off by the eye-watering commissions that agents charge? It may be the moment to fly solo and learn the tricks of the trade yourself. That means you could end up keeping more cash in your…
Porsche Digital opens second location in the US
Porsche subsidiary continues to expand global network Ludwigsburg/Atlanta (USA). Porsche Digital has opened a second site in the US in Atlanta (Georgia) to extend the company’s business portfolio for North America. The team of business experts, designers and software engineers will…
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Caribbean, Central America renewable energy watch
From Bnamericas The Dominican Republic’s government has authorized the commissioning of Akuo Energy-controlled Parques Eólicos del Caribe’s 50MW Guanillo wind farm (pictured) in Montecristi province after it was inaugurated in June. Power regulator SIE approved the plant’s operation in the national interconnected power grid after verifying the…
Road maintenance work seems to always happen summer time
By Kenneth Reily It always feels like road construction is done during the summers, of course it might be partly true as it will be easier to do some of the work during the summers, especially in areas that have…
Give us our birdman back! Jamaican government demands return of two Caribbean sculptures that have been in London for more than 200 years
By Henry Goodwin From Daily Mail UK The sculptures depict a rain god and a birdman and are both around 3ft tall Both carvings, thought to have been made by the Taino people, are at the British Museum Jamaica’s culture minister said they are…
Number of migrants waiting at US border surges to 40,000
From Newsmax TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — The Cameroonian men who share 10 mattresses on the floor of a third-floor apartment above a barber shop walk every morning to the busiest U.S. border crossing with Mexico, hoping against all odds that…
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Trinidadian born storyteller Rita Cox to be honored by CTO
By Caribbean National Weekly TORONTO, Canada, CMC – The Barbados-based Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) says it will honour Trinidad-born storyteller, Rita Cox, with its Lifetime Achievement Award later this month. It said that Cox, who chronicles the Caribbean legacy, will…
He went to jail as a fake doctor. Now he’s a real one: The saga of Adam Litwin, MD
By Soumya Karlamangla From Los Angeles Times CHICAGO — Wearing a surgical gown and a mask, 9-year-old Adam Litwin watched in awe as his grandfather, a podiatrist, mended a fractured foot. “I was just mesmerized,” Litwin recalled. “I literally knew from…
