Burrowes sells more Dolphin Cove shares
By Camilo Thame From Jamaica Gleaner Stafford Burrowes sold another US$4.7 million ($570 million) in shares in Dolphin Cove as some minority shareholders held out on offering up their shares to Mexico-based World of Dolphins. This made for a hefty…
ILO News: United Kingdom joins renewed fight to end forced labour
LONDON (ILO News) – The United Kingdom has ratified a landmark ILO agreement to combat forced labour, people trafficking and other forms of modern slavery. The Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention, 1930 aims to prevent forced labour…
Criminal record disclosure checks ruled ‘unlawful’
From BBC Two people who claimed their careers were being blighted by having to disclose their minor criminal convictions to employers have won their case at the High Court. The court ruled the criminal record checks scheme used in England…
Antigua abolishes personal income tax
From Jamaica Observer ST JOHN’S, Antigua (CMC) – Prime Minister Gaston Browne yesterday announced that, effective April, personal income tax will be abolished in its entirety. The prime minster, who made the announcement in his presentation of the 2016 Budget…
The Internet of Things will be more of the same in 2016
By Andrew Tarantola Everything still needs an app. Despite analyst expectations that the so-called Internet of Things will generate as much as $1.2 billion in 2016, the Internet of Things appears to be continuing the same shark-jumping trajectory that we saw…
Cayman Islands’ flashy culinary scene
By Shea Peters From JustLuxe The Cayman Islands’ Flashy Culinary Scene Draws an Impressive Crowd of Celebrity Chefs Known as the hangout for the rich and famous, the Cayman Islands also have become the go-to culinary destination of the Caribbean….
BBC’s “Britain’s Trillion Pound Island – Inside Cayman’?” makes waves
Please see iNews Cayman’s story published January 20 2016 before reading the following “The Cayman Islands – home to 100,000 companies and the £8.50 packet of fish fingers” at: http://www.ieyenews.com/wordpress/the-cayman-islands-home-to-100000-companies-and-the-8-50-packet-of-fish-fingers/ Can Cayman be wound up? Someone can’t be telling the whole…
Foster’s Food Fair Cayman Islands: Another market affected by El Niño
Following the official Press Release issued earlier this week, Foster’s Food Fair – IGA would like to announce that bad weather has affected Florida corn growers, and high prices into spring will be the likely result. Following the torrential rains…
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Bank of America declares $0.05 dividend Jan 21 2016, 10:27 ET | Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) declares $0.05/share quarterly dividend, in line with previous.Forward yield 1.46%Payable March 25; for shareholders of record March 4; ex-div March 2. Cayman Islands Grand…
Cayman Islands requires diligence to keep the pace
By Becky Butcher From Captive Insurance Times The continued soft traditional insurance market, the ripple effects of healthcare reform in the US and increasing competition from more than 80 captive domiciles requires the Cayman Islands to be more diligent in…
