Rotary WAS students tour Cayman Islands WAC facilities
Four students are set to represent the Cayman Islands at the Rotary International World Affairs Seminar thanks to a CI$2,500.00 sponsorship from Water Authority — Cayman. The Water Authority Board recently agreed to sponsor Charles Panton, Shamelia McPherson, Liana DaCosta…
Venezuela PDVSA unit eyes up to $600 mln to overhaul Aruba refinery
By Alexandra Ulmer From Reuters CARACAS: Citgo Petroleum, the U.S. unit of Venezuela’s PDVSA, will likely invest about $400 million to $600 million to overhaul Aruba’s refinery under a 25-year lease with the Caribbean island’s government, a top PDVSA official…
Qunar Cayman Islands receives go-private offer
From Reuters Chinese online travel company Qunar Cayman Islands Ltd said a unit of private equity fund Ocean Imagination LP offered to acquire the company. The offer of $30.39 per American depositary share represents a premium of 15 percent to…
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The Letter From News-Talk-Sports
By Perry Simon From All Access Music Group I’ve been buying books lately, and by “books” I mean the kind that have actual paper pages and covers and ink, not the kind you read on something that needs to be…
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After British Stay-or-Leave EU vote Thursday, legal chiefs ask: What next?
By E. Leigh Dance, from Corporate Counsel June 24 Addendum: Now that the world’s fifth largest (according to BBC’s newscast last night) economy has voted to leave the EU, my article posted June 23 has new significance. The overall message below…
Page and Plant’s win in ‘Stairway to Heaven’ case seen as bolstering songwriters’ creative rights
By Amanda Bronstad, From The National Law Journal Thursday’s verdict for Led Zeppelin in the copyright trial over the 1971 hit song “Stairway to Heaven” reaffirms the creative rights of songwriters while demonstrating the difficulties in pursuing infringement over sheet music,…
Five Caribbean Nations forecast to grow the fastest this year
From News Americas Now News Americas, NEW YORK, NY, Fri. June 24, 2016: While the global economy is still struggling and many countries in the Caribbean are facing a harsher world, there are at least five that are forecast to…
The OAS: Not a moment for pride
By Sir Ronald Sanders From Caribbean News Now On June 23, the Permanent Council of the Organisation of American States (OAS) held a meeting called by the Secretary-General, Luis Almagro, under Article 20 of the Inter-Democratic Charter, to present a…
Cayman Islands injunction on Autohome fails to halt $2.1b Telstra sale
By Max Mason From AFR Week The $2.1 billion sale of most of Telstra’s majority stake in Autohome to insurer Ping An has gone ahead, despite a Cayman Islands court injunction attempting to block the deal until a hearing. Documents…
Cayman Islands Premier’s statement on UK’s leaving EU/Cayman Finance statement on “Brexit”
Statement on UK’s leaving EU By Premier Hon. Alden McLaughlin, MBE, JP, MLA 24 June, 2016 Mister Speaker as you would be aware our friends in the United Kingdom have cast their votes to leave the European Union. Mister Speaker,…
