Jamaica on course for another drawdown of IMF funds
CARIBBEAN360 KINGSTON, Jamaica, Monday August 24, 2015 – Jamaica is on course for a ninth drawdown of funds from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). This is based on the country’s positive performance for the first quarter of the fiscal year…
Bahamas “largely compliant” says OECD Tax Policy Director
By Bahamas Financial Services & Investments The director of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, Pascal Saint-Amans, has praised The Bahamas for its “tremendous progress” in adopting Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act…
Trump’s deportation rhetoric crushing to GOP
By George Will From Newsmax It has come to this: The GOP, formerly the party of Lincoln and ostensibly the party of liberty and limited government, is being defined by clamors for a mass roundup and deportation of millions of…
The Greek crisis is shaking the IMF to its core
By Jamie Robertson From BBC World News The Greek crisis, having shaken the eurozone to its core, is likely to have a similar seismic effect on another massive institution, the IMF. The International Monetary Fund’s exposure is small compared with…
The Editor Speaks: PC – Politically Correct?
‘Politically Correct’ was originally a phrase on the Leninist left to denote someone who steadfastly toed the party line. Then it evolved into ‘PC’, an ironic phrase among wised up leftists to denote someone whose line-toeing fervour was too much…
In Saudi saga, big four auditors safe from funds
By Adam Klasfeld From Courthouse News Service MANHATTAN (CN) – Big Four auditors KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers can shield documents sought by an investment fund for sprawling litigation related to the fall of two powerful Saudi conglomerates in 2009, the Second…
Discrimination, homophobia, privilege and hate speech in Cayman Islands Legislative Assembly
By James Austen- Smith From Cayman Islands Human Rights Commission Like many others in Cayman, and elsewhere, the members of the Human Rights Commission were shocked to read reports of a ‘debate’ which took place in the Legislative Assembly on…
CARICOM: A collective bargaining unit for rights
By Sir Ronald Sanders From CARIBBEAN360AUGUST 21, 2015 BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Friday August 21, 2015 – The Caribbean regional integration project is often described and criticised almost entirely on the uneven benefits of trade to member countries. But, important as it…
American heroes: How we overpowered French train attacker
From Newsmax LILLE, France — A day ago he was just another tourist on a train. By Saturday, U.S. Airman First Class Spencer Stone was recovering from knife wounds in a hospital in France, being thanked for foiling what the…
HMRC: The taxman cometh
By Tom Burgis and Vanessa Houlder From The Financial Times UK authorities vowing crackdown on tax dodgers to prove system does not favour the rich and famous Missing millions: protesters dressed up as UK chancellor George Osborne and former shadow…
