Seagate Technology announces successful completion of cash tender offers for outstanding 7.000% senior notes due 2021 and 6.875% senior notes due 2020
CUPERTINO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–June 18, 2014– Seagate Technology plc (NASDAQ: STX) gave notice of the completion of the cash tender offers by its wholly owned subsidiary, Seagate HDD Cayman (“HDD Cayman”), previously announced on May 20, 2014 (the “Tender Offers”), to…
The Editor Speaks: Mosquitoes pleased with Cayman’s decision to cut back on mosquito control
There is an agreeable buzz in Cayman’s mosquito population at the government’s decision to cut back funding to its mosquito control budget by $74,000. Whilst many other countries are increasing their budgets to curb the pests government has deemed otherwise….
Cayman Islands Deputy Governor reports travel loopholes are being closed
The Deputy Governor endorses the Auditor General’s recommendations arising from the recent audit on travel expenditures. The audit contains some eleven distinct recommendations aimed at increasing accountability and transparency, many of which have either already been implemented or are in…
CCJ creating Caribbean law
From Guyana Times Consistent with its vision to foster a unique Caribbean jurisprudence, the[Caribbean Court of Justice] CCJ has taken another step in its journey to creating this indigenous body of law. This time it did so in the Guyanese…
Trinidad & Tobago has third most inflexible expenditures in the Caribbean
By AleemKhan From Breaking News Trinidad & Tobago T&T has the third highest and most inflexible expenditures in the Caribbean, according to the latest available Inter-American Development Bank Quarterly Bulletin (May 2014). Barbados has the highest, and Jamaica has the…
How a hacker nabbed $600,000 in two months by Googling people’s home networks
By Julie Bort From Business Insider Sometimes a hacker does something so brilliant, we can’t help but marvel at it. In this case, a hacker figured out how to control certain home networks to mine for a computer currency called…
Jamaican faces sex-trafficking charges in US
From Caribbean360 A woman in lace stockings and underwear putting money in her stockings.FLORIDA, United States, Wednesday June 18, 2014, CMC – A Jamaican national faces sex-trafficking charges at a trial here for stealing an Ohio man’s identity to run…
St Vincent debates controversial Passport Amendment Act
By Kenton Chance From Caribbean360 KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, Wednesday June 11, 2014, CMC – Parliament is debating the controversial Passport Amendment Act with opposition legislators making it clear that they will not support proposed changes to the legislation unless the…
The Editor Speaks: Bush thinks being rude is Ok if it’s against the Crown
Opposition leader McKeeva Bush must be one if not the rudest politician in the Caribbean and he is probably proud of that title. There was outrage from many, many Caymanians at his comment to Cayman’s previous Governor who represents the…
Obama sends troops to protect Baghdad Embassy, Special Forces considered
From Newsmax Nearly 300 armed American forces are being positioned in and around Iraq to help secure U.S. assets as President Barack Obama nears a decision on an array of options for combating fast-moving Islamic insurgents, including airstrikes or a…
