Cayman Islands government extend duty concessions
In its ongoing effort to maintain and stimulate further economic activity, the Government has extended the following duty concessions to 31st December 2020: • the import duty concessionary rate of 12.5 cents per gallon on the importation of motor gasoline…
Cayman Islands: Gov’t’s first electric car to deliver mails
From Petrol Plaza The Cayman Islands Postal Service will be starting to use a Nissan NV-200e, the government’s first electric car, to deliver packages to George Town offices in 2016, reported Cayman Compass. This serves as a pilot test for…
Jamaica gas dealers in battle with Rubis over franchise licences
20From CARIBBEAN360 KINGSTON, Jamaica, Saturday December 19, 2015 – The Jamaica Gasolene Retailers Association (JGRA) is accusing Rubis of exploiting Jamaicans and is pressing the multinational oil marketing company to stop issuing one-year franchise licences to local service station dealers….
Cayman Islands Hospital Children’s Ward benefits from toy donation
The Immigration Department on Friday 18th December 2015 took time to deliver presents to the pediatric ward of the Cayman Islands Hospital. Drives at Immigration Headquarters and its location at Cayman Centre collected more than three boxes and three bags…
Jamaica wins award for US$2B bond
By Gladstone Taylor From Jamaica Gleaner The magazine International Financing Review (IFR) has given Jamaica one of its 2015 awards for the US$2 billion bond offer. Here is the magazine’s take on the issue. Troubles in Latin America provided opportunities…
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Syria: Where have all the birds gone?
By Peter Polack A frequent interval to the gunfire explosions in the many Syrian war videos available on the internet is the occasional silence and interruption of a swooning flight of birds. Houses, streets, towns and cities have been irretrievably…
Knight-funded performance fuses classical Indian dance and Afro-Caribbean poetry
By Marcia Cancio-Bello From Knight Blog Marci Cancio-Bello is a program coordinator at the Miami Book Fair International. When someone outside of Florida mentions Miami, most people think of sunny beaches, palm trees, retirement and perhaps Cuba. But for those…
Details of cocaine bust near Dominican coast revealed
By Alfonso Chardy From Miami Herald Maritime Patrol Aircraft first spotted go-fast boat with cocaine U.S. Coast Guard later boarded the boat off Dominican Republic Four individuals and 22 bales of cocaine seized After the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Bernard…
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Bajan at Hart of climate talks
By TONY BEST, From Barbados Nation News Immediately after the global climate change pact became a done deal in Paris, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon turned to his trusted top climate change adviser and asked: “what about 1.5.”? Selwin Hart,…
Shark kills Venezuela man being rescued by Dutch Coast Guard near Aruba in Caribbean
By Associated Press From Star Tribune ORANJESTAD, Aruba — One of seven Venezuelan men whose boat capsized near Aruba died after he was attacked by a shark while being rescued, the Dutch Caribbean Coast Guard said Monday. Two other men…
