BSkyB in £5bn deal to create Sky Europe
From BBC The move was announced along with the company’s annual results, which show pre-tax profits fell slightly to £1.2bn from last year’s £1.26bn. BSkyB also reported revenues rose by 7%, with strong demand “across the board” for its services….
HSBC closes bank accounts of Muslim organisations
By Tim Worstall From Forbes HSBC has closed the UK bank accounts of a series of Muslim organisations and those associated with them. This is causing some uproar as they’ve not explained very well why they’ve done this. It is…
Cayman’s Ritz-Carlton makes Caribbean Journal’s TOP 10
From Caribbean Journal The 10 Best Caribbean Luxury Resorts For Families — 2014 There are many great luxury resorts in the Caribbean. There are many great family resorts in the Caribbean. But not all of members of the former group…
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OffshoreAlert reports Cayman’s Bryce Merren should plead guilty and is requesting extension of time From OffshoreAlert: Cayman’s Bryce Merren ‘should plead guilty’, says counsel August 04, 2014 – Cayman Islands resident Bryce Merren, who has been criminally indicted on three…
LinkedIn to spend $6M to compensate employees for violating labor laws
By Avaneesh Pandey From International Business Times LinkedIn Corp. (NYSE:LNKD) agreed to pay nearly $6 million in back wages, overtime and damages to a “small subset” of its staff in California, Illinois, Nebraska and New York, according to reports published…
Cayman Axiom Fund fraud: Lawyer struck off as solicitor in UK
British attorney Tim Schools struck off for ‘serious misconduct’ From OffshoreAlert Timothy Schools, who masterminded the £100 million-plus, Cayman Islands-domiciled Axiom Legal Financing Fund fraud, was struck off as a solicitor in England and Wales on June 27th for professional…
From inflatable ‘bubble’ airports to Hobbit-style Caribbean hotels…
From inflatable ‘bubble’ airports to Hobbit-style Caribbean hotels… the eco-designs that show how we will travel in the future From Daily Mail UK These unusual, domed buildings could be the hotels and airports of the future. Designs have been released…
This is what the most secure email in the world could look like
By Karyne Levy From Business Insider Researchers at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Raytheon BBN Technologies have created a way to make your email correspondence so secure (PDF), that even the NSA would have a hard time getting…
Canada promotes enhanced public financial management in the Caribbean
The Government of Canada announced funding toward the Enhancing Public Financial Management in the Caribbean initiative, which will improve the capacity of national institutions to better manage public finances in the face of rising financial vulnerabilities. The initiative, valued at…
NO Airport refuses to post health alert, cites ‘aesthetics’
From WDSU New Orleans NEW ORLEANS —Six people in the greater New Orleans area have been infected with the chikungunya virus this summer; all contracted the virus while traveling to the Caribbean. The WDSU I-Team has learned that an official…
