US military concerned ISIS fighters returning to Caribbean could reach border
By Kevin Baron From Defense One A top US commander warns Caribbean and South American countries are unable to track 100 foreign fighters that could return from Syria. Americas / Terrorism The war in Syria has attracted roughly 100 foreign…
The Editor Speaks: Should MLA’s receive pensions when they have not retired?
Elected officials in the Cayman Islands Legislative Assembly are allowed to receive pensions after serving only one four year term. They are also allowed to receive this pension after the retirement age of 55. Do they? Oh yes. However, they…
Tourism competition is not a guessing game |
By Ronald Sanders From CARIBBEAN360 BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Friday May 22, 2015 – The performance of only five of the 14 independent Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries are recorded in the 2015 Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report published by the World Economic…
Australia reacts to Ireland’s revolutionary same-sex marriage vote
By Ariel Bogle From Mashable After Ireland became the first country to legalise same-sex marriage by popular vote, Australian politicians and the public took to social media to express their opinion on the topic — with an overwhelming number calling…
Meridian Capital International Fund announces change in shareholdings
GEORGE TOWN, GRAND CAYMAN, CAYMAN ISLANDS, May 25, 2015 (Canada NewsWire via COMTEX) — Meridian Capital International Fund (“Meridian”) announced today that, in connection with the closing of the restructuring transaction by Caspian Energy Inc. (“Caspian”), the percentage of Meridian’s…
The death and rebirth of Hyundai Trajet Y264 TKP
By Jamie Robertson From BBC World News A few miles short of Swindon my car, laden with four teenagers, my wife, one teenager’s boyfriend, a dog, and attendant baggage comes to a sudden and it turns out, permanent, halt. Two…
Feds charge Chinese engineers with stealing Silicon Valley technology
By Marisa Kendall, From The Recorder SAN FRANCISCO — The U.S. Department of Justice has charged a Chinese professor and five alleged associates with funneling stolen U.S. trade secrets to China, claiming they used an elaborate scheme involving bogus patent…
Final section of modern, regional undersea cable comes ashore in Puerto Rico
From Fox News Latino Divers and technicians on Saturday completed the deployment of the most advanced undersea fiber-optic cable in the Caribbean and Central America, bringing ashore the final section and laying it in a trench dug in the sand…
Hanergy secured $200m loan ahead of solar group stock tumble
By Cynthia O’Murchu From Financial Times Li Hejun, the solar tycoon and controlling shareholder in Hanergy Thin Film Power Group, took a US$200m loan pledging millions of shares in the Hong Kong listed company as collateral just two days before…
The Editor Speaks: If Moses went into our ‘Burning’ Bush
If Moses was alive and well here in the Cayman Islands and he was beckoned to go into the McKeeva ‘Burning’ Bush he would come out and present us with a set of tablets containing commandments/laws that would sound as…
