The view from Europe: reading the writing on the wall
By DAVID JESSOP From The Barbados Advocate In Havana on April 28, the Dominican Republic and Cuba agreed to explore the possibility of a partial scope trade agreement. There Cuba’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade and Investment, Ileana Nunez, and…
Zika on the rise in Caribbean
Algeria Pool a perfect breeding ground for mosquito From smn news PHILIPSBURG:— Health officials and those conducting controls seems to be sleeping even though they know that the Zika virus is on the rise around the Caribbean. Recently, the French…
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Hundreds bid farewell to Keith ‘Slick’ Bonadie-Clarke
By Nelson A. King From Caribbean Life Hundreds of Vincentian and Caribbean nationals in Brooklyn last Sunday paid their last respects to Keith “Slick” Bonadie-Clarke, one of St. Vincent and the Grenadines’ greater mid-fielders ever in soccer, who died on April…
Cayman Islands food recall: Creative Snacks
From Foster’s Food Fair May 9th, 2016 Foster’s Food Fair-IGA would like to announce that Creative Snacks Co. of Greensboro, North Carolina is recalling specific lot codes of bulk and packaged sunflower seed products due to the potential presence of…
Man arrested on suspicion of money laundering last Friday, 6 May
From RCIPS: Mon, May 9, 2016 at 11:59 AM Last Friday, 6 May, detectives with the RCIPS Financial Crimes Unit arrested a man, age 37, of George Town, on suspicion of Money Laundering. The man had been appointed as a voluntary…
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Cayman Islands introduces new tourism attraction rates
The Tourism Attraction Board will be introducing new admission rates to both Pedro St James and the Queen Elizabeth II Botanic Park as of May 1, 2016. All residents of the Cayman Islands will now be able to avail of…
Nigeria calls on anti-corruption summit to back registers of ownership [Cayman Islands ‘under pressure’]
By Patrick Wintour From The Guardian UK Ahead of UK summit, minister says registers will help indentify individuals laundering public funds offshore Workers trying to tie a pipe at an oil refinery in Nigeria Nigeria has called on an anti-corruption summit…
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Not perfect but Cayman Islands National Pensions Amendment Bill approved Cayman Islands Minister Tara Rivers admitted the amendments to the National Pensions Bill comprising 51 clauses was not perfect but the best compromise in the circumstances considering the original Bill…
Cayman Islands Premiere’s Statement on Project Future -hits “Cayman Compass” Editorial
STATEMENT BY THE PREMIER, HON. ALDEN MCLAUGHLIN Project Future Update 6 May, 2016 Madam Speaker, I would like to take this opportunity to address a most erroneous and misleading editorial in today’s “Compass”. Under the sensationalized title: The EY Report:…
Cayman Islands Minister Archer responds to CICSA President Watler
Statement by the Honourable Minister for Finance & Economic Development on Co-Pay of Health Insurance Premiums by Civil Servants 6 May 2016 Madam Speaker, I would like to make a statement in response to the 3 May 2016 letter that…
