Solomon Harris – Offshore Law Firm of the Year
George Town, Grand Cayman — Cayman Islands law firm, Solomon Harris, is delighted to announce that for the second year running, it has been awarded the prestigious title of “offshore law firm of the year” at the US Captive Service…
UCCI Caribbean Anti-Corruption Conference
From Stabroek News The University College of the Cayman Islands (UCCI) held its 2014 Caribbean Anti-Corruption Conference on 19-21 March 2014 under the theme “Towards a Corruption-Free Caribbean: Ethics, Values, Trust and Morality”. A total of 120 participants from 15…
Central bank governor: Caricom trade policy ‘nonsense’
CSME problems: Dr DeLisle Worrell Governor of the Central Bank of Barbados Dr DeLisle Worrell has made it clear he is not a fan of the wholesale free movement of people in Caricom. Worrell, one of the region’s leading economists,…
Chinese Consumers: Doing It Their Way
The Economist From Business Insider The market is growing furiously, but getting tougher for foreign firms In the heart of old Shanghai is a magnificent villa that serves as the workplace of Guo Jingming, a provocative young film-maker. “Tiny Times”,…
Get ready to buy emerging markets [after vacationing in Grand Cayman]
By StreetAuthority From Nasdaq As I write this I’m sailing across the sky, 35,000 feet in the air in a Boeing 777, heading home from a great vacation in Grand Cayman. It’s one of the most beautiful islands in the…
New CEO details goals for Caribbean hotel and tourism group
By Aldeth Lewin From Virgin Islands Daily News ST. THOMAS – The USVI Hotel and Tourism Association hosted its annual meeting Friday, and members got to hear from the new head of the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association, Jeff Vasser….
[Cayman] Caribbean-based advisers charged in money-laundering sting
By David Voreacos and Tom Schoenberg From Bloomberg Three Caribbean-based men who helped Americans hide assets from U.S. tax authorities were charged in a sting operation with laundering what they were told was dirty money. The U.S. indicted Eric St-Cyr,…
Copyright holders look for an antipiracy DMCA upgrade
By Andrew Ramonas, Corporate Counsel As policymakers in Washington, D.C., consider ways to better combat online piracy, NBCUniversal Inc. and other copyright holders gathered on Thursday to discuss the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and called for flexible solutions to protect…
Automatic texts from Yahoo don’t violate ‘Do-Not-Call’ protection
By Saranac Hale Spencer, The Legal Intelligencer Yahoo’s system for automatically texting its users when their email accounts have received a new message doesn’t violate the federal law that protects consumers from unsolicited calls, a federal judge has ruled. U.S….
FATCA Final Regulations – Update For Cayman And Irish CLO Issuers
By Alasdair Robertson, Mark Matthews, Scott Macdonald and Nicola Bashforth Maples and Calder On 20 February 2014 the US Treasury and the IRS released a set of revisions to the US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (“FATCA”) final regulations (the…
