The Editor Speaks: You don’t put the cart before the horse
It has always puzzled me why we spend millions and millions of dollars on police, prison and other security and enforcement measures every year and almost nothing on crime prevention. Surely if a crime is prevented we don’t need the…
Cayman Islands: CIMA deregistrations and applications for audit waiver by 1 October 2015
Article by Ingrid Pierce, Denise Wong, Hughie Wong, Tim Ludford-Thomas and Laura Rogers From Walkers Last Updated: 14 September 2015 The Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (“CIMA”) issued a new Rule and Regulatory Procedure earlier this year relating to the cancellation…
FACTA: Expect the unexpected (and the worst) in tax treatment and disclosure of offshore assets, particularly for Indian assets
By Parag Patel in NRI Tax From The Economic Times On July 9, 2015, India and the US signed an agreement to implement the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) that will facilitate exchange of information between the two countries…
Law suits filed over Barbados nursing home deaths
By Jodi McQial From Caribbean News Now BRIDGETOWN, Barbados — While the Barbados minister of health has called for the island’s nursing and hospice establishments, registered and unregistered, to step up to the plate, the Gentle Folks Nursing Home, which…
Mexico slams Egypt after it ‘accidentally’ killed several Mexican tourists
By Leticia Pineda, AFP From Business Insider Mexico City (AFP) – Mexico called on Egypt to swiftly investigate why tourists were mistakenly targeted in what witnesses described as an air-strike that left at least two Mexicans dead and six unaccounted…
The CCJ as a court of first instance for intellectual property; revisiting the idea Published on September 15, 2015
By Abiola Inniss From Caribbean news Now In January 2010, this column first proposed the idea of the CCJ as a court of first instance for intellectual property (IP) matters. In the years following its publication, there has been a…
Money Laundering Central: The UK Property Market
The United Kingdom property market, particularly in London, has become a notorious money laundering tool for Russian oligarchs and other wealthy individuals in recent years. As a result, real estate prices have been surging and an increasing number of properties…
Is enterprise hyper growth the new normal?
By Jason Green From Techcrunch Jason Green is a founder and general partner of Emergence Capital. The enterprise cloud has entered a new era of hyper growth thanks to a combination of dramatically expanded global markets, access to unprecedented later-stage…
The Editor Speaks: Cayman Islands teachers get a very low grade. But is it all due to them?
It is staggering for me to read the reports on our education system that despite significant progress in schools over the last few years most Caymanian schools would be in ‘special measures’ if they were in the United Kingdom! So…
Cayman Islands cable TV provider reports earnings
KEYTECH REPORTS EARNINGS -COMPANY REPOSITIONS AS FULL-SERVICE TELECOMMUNICATIONS PROVIDER IN BERMUDA AND CAYMAN AND STRENGTHENS INFRASTRUCTURE-September 13, 2015 The KeyTech Group of Companies today announces a total comprehensive loss from continuing operations of $1.9 million for the year ending March…
