City sorry for altered photo
From Ecns The city government of Ningguo, Anhui province, apologized for a doctored picture showing city-level officials visiting a centenarian resident on Wednesday. The photo, which shows four officials, including Deputy Mayor Wang Jun and Yu Anlin, director of the…
Kenyans accuse police of ignoring gang rape
BBC News Kenyans are outraged that three men accused of gang-raping and dumping a girl in a pit latrine were ordered by police to cut grass as punishment. The 16-year old was attacked after returning from a grandfather’s funeral in…
December Deadline for Detailed IAT Submissions
Persons who have an appeal pending with the Immigration Appeals Tribunal (IAT) have until Monday 30 December 2013 to submit detailed grounds of appeal. On 25 October 2013 the Immigration Law changed to state that hearings shall be on the…
The Editor Speaks: Progress but still not good enough and why so few releases to public?
In iNews Cayman’s story on October 30th “Aud. Gen. reports progress towards more timely reporting” Cayman’s Auditor General, Alastair Swarbrick, said government and associated authorities are doing a better job of turning in financial statements with quality data. However he…
Einhorn Pares bet on stock rally after market’s relentless climb
By Noah Buhayar, Bloomberg News From SFGate Oct. 31 (Bloomberg) — Hedge-fund manager David Einhorn is taking a more conservative approach to his investment portfolio even as wagers that stocks would fall caused his results to trail the Standard &…
LIME roaming rates reduced
Since Digicel announced it was reducing its roaming rates (see related story below) at the beginning of October by almost 70% LIME has been silent on the matter until now. Now LIME has announced plans to cut data roaming costs…
Cayman Islands: EMIR – Impact For Cayman Funds
Article by Derbhil O’Riordan and Matt Mulry From Dillon Eustace Take Care – EMIR Impacts Cayman Funds As managers of Cayman Funds are coming to grips with the reporting requirements of AIFMD1, a second wave of European legislation, namely EMIR2,…
Government jobs programme a success
GRAND CAYMAN, Cayman Islands – More than 20 people have been placed in jobs through a joint partnership with Government and recruitment agency Baraud. The Ministry of Education, Employment and Gender Affairs, along with the National Workforce Development Agency, teamed…
Bloomberg: If Aereo wins in court, cable companies might buy it or build clones
By Richard Lawler From engadget While TV broadcasters like CBS and Fox continue their legal battle against Aereo and its leased microantenna-to-internet streaming scheme, Bloomberg reports cable companies are watching more closely than ever. Since they’re currently paying retrans fees…
Three Ex-Murdoch journalists plead guilty to phone hacking
From The Wrap Hearings revealed that Neville Thurlbeck, James Weatherup and Greg Miskiw admitted to conspiracy to intercept communications Three former senior journalists from Rupert Murdoch’s British tabloid the News of the World have pleaded guilty to charges relating to…
