Small enterprises key to a sustainable Caribbean economy
From Guyana Times The Commonwealth Secretariat in collaboration with the Government of Saint Lucia, hosted the Third Global Biennial Conference on Small States. This year’s conference theme was “Building resilience in Small States”, with Government officials in attendance from 31…
The Editor Speaks: statistics – are they really useful?
“U.K. Economy size may be revised upward on EU Statistics changes” is one of our stories in today’s iNews Cayman from Bloomberg, showing the importance of statistics. Important but is their usefulness exaggerated and figures capable of misinterpretation? Yesterday I was helping…
U.K. Economy size may be revised upward on EU Statistics changes
By Jennifer Ryan and Scott Hamilton From Bloomberg The size of the U.K. economy may be revised upward as officials change the way they calculate output to reflect new European Union standards. The changes may add 2.5 percent to 5…
Shifting drug smuggling routes bring contraband to Florida
By William E. Gibson, Washington Bureau From Sun Sentinel WASHINGTON — Under cover of night, speed boats sneak into Florida coves and inlets, hauling bundles of marijuana and cocaine. Drugs wash up on shore. Radar aircraft hover, searching for smugglers….
Multiple Emmy Award-Winning news anchor for Invest Caribbean Now 2014
Invest CaribbeanCaribPR Wire, NEW YORK, NY – New York Hall of Fame Broadcaster and winner of more than 30 Emmy awards and nominations, Ernie Anastos, is set to emcee the biggest investment summit on the Caribbean outside the region, Invest…
More questions than answers in fatal boat incident
By: Stanford Conway, From SKNVibes.com BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – FOLLOWING Wednesday afternoon’s (Apr. 2) unfortunate watery death of Rudolph ‘Tone’ Dowell of Pond’s Extension and Maxwell Browne of New Road, a number of questions have been raised but no official…
Shanghai to be 2nd Tingyi headquarters
From Ecns.cn Tingyi (Cayman Islands) Holding Corp, the company that owns instant noodle brand Master Kong and specializes in beverages and instant food, intends to establish an operations headquarters in Shanghai. Tingyi’s spokesman Chen Gongru said the move is part…
T&T minister filing lawsuits against journalists, media houses and politician
From Caribbean360 PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, Friday March 22, 2013 – Sports Minister Anil Roberts says he will take legal action against several journalists and media houses as well as the chair person of his Congress of the People (COP) political party…
The rate of share buybacks has doubled in the last decade
By Sam Ro From Business Insider Companies have been shoveling hundreds of billions of dollars of cash back to shareholders in the form of share buybacks. This trend has sparked outrage among those who believe companies could do better by…
The Editor Speaks: Banks transaction fees continue to rise
*An excellent article from the Jamaica Gleaner has been published in iNews Cayman today. Entitled “Fixing fees for profit”, Arthur Hall, Gleaner’s Senior News Editor shows from a just-concluded study by the local think tank, Caribbean Policy Research Institute (CaPRI),…
