Funeral home sues family of teen killed at Caribbean Carnival parade
By Marco Chown Oved From The Star Rueshad Grant’s grieving relatives agreed to expensive funeral after they were told that a lawsuit would pay for everything. The family of the Brampton teen killed during last year’s Toronto Caribbean Carnival is…
Drought forces water rationing in Colombia
By W. Alejandro Sanchez This Sunday, August 10, the Colombian government will establish a new water rationing system in various departments throughout the country. The goal is to conserve water, as a drought caused by the El Niño phenomenon is…
The Editor Speaks: A very HAPPY Independence Day Jamaica – a place of belonging not just a place of abode
Wednesday 6th August is Jamaica’s Independence Day. iNews Cayman wishes all Jamaicans a very happy day – their 52nd Anniversary. The Prime Minister of Jamaica, The Most Honourable Portia Simpson Miller, said it is “Fifty two years since that hopeful…
Caribbean governments now insured against excess rainfall
From Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, August 4, 2014 – The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) is pleased to announce that eight of its members have become the first countries to purchase its excess rainfall…
CFPB report: Typical overdraft situation is comparable to small-dollar loan with 17,000% interest rate
By Ashlee Kieler From Consumerist If you’re one of the hundreds of millions of consumers who use a debit card you’ve likely found yourself on the receiving end of an overdraft fee when your account balance just wasn’t quite enough…
AES pitches DR as hub of US-sourced natural gas network in Caribbean
By Kevin Mead From Caribbean Business AES Corporation is pitching its liquefied natural gas (LNG) infrastructure in the Dominican Republic as a potential hub to supply cleaner, cheaper energy to other Caribbean islands. “The confluence of market forces, required infrastructure…
The ‘Cuban Twitter’ covert program: Misleading denials by the Obama Administration
By Howard Friel From Common Dreams A simple reading of the report last week by the Associated Press that a U.S. State Department agency was engaged in a destabilization program in Cuba suggests that administration officials who responded to the…
HSBC closes bank accounts of Muslim organisations
By Tim Worstall From Forbes HSBC has closed the UK bank accounts of a series of Muslim organisations and those associated with them. This is causing some uproar as they’ve not explained very well why they’ve done this. It is…
Of ‘election’ changes and CCJ
By Rickey Singh From Trinidad Express SO, in this 52nd year of its political independence from the United Kingdom, Trinidad and Tobago has chosen to engage in historic constitutional pace-setting changes to give a significantly new meaning to multi-party electoral…
The Editor Speaks: Statistics: When figures appear good they must be bad
We live in world full of statistics. Sports writers and commentators, especially in the USA, are obsessed with them. Even a blade of grass touching a certain place on a soccer ball and leaving a mark will be recorded. If…
