CARICOM and Japan celebrate 20 years of cooperation in fisheries
Belize City, 1 December 2014 (CRFM): Japan’s fisheries cooperation with CARICOM has spanned two decades. Following several country seminars held over the past few weeks, the celebration of this milestone—20 years of friendship and cooperation in fisheries—will climax this week,…
Cayman Islands Health City performs historical second LVAD heart surgery
December 1, 2014: Health City Cayman Islands has performed its second successful LVAD (Left Ventricular Assist Device) heart surgery, allowing another ailing Caribbean national to move to a new beat. Ralph Wright of the Cayman Islands recently benefited from the…
Cartoon of the Day
By Tony Zuvela, Cartoonist “It’s my own little World which I can escape to everyday and create a fun, weird, berserk Cartoon to whatever subject I like. I enjoy doing all the work myself, and all the aspects of Cartooning,…
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Cayman Islands: N164bn debt: Access Bank obtains order to sell Akingbola’s properties Dec 1, 2014 – A Grant Court of the Cayman Islands has granted Access Bank Plc leave to sell more of the properties belonging to former managing director…
‘2015 Jump League gets off to a flying start’ in Cayman Islands
Unlike dressage, the equestrian sport of show jumping does not have its origins in the military battlefields of Europe. Instead, it was, somewhat surprisingly, born in 18th century England following the passing of the Enclosure Acts. Prior to the Acts,…
GIVEAWAY: Get diving certification with Oris Watches & aBlogtoWatch in Grand Cayman
By Ariel Adams from A Blog To Watch GIVEAWAY: Get Diving Certification With Oris Watches & aBlogtoWatch In Grand Cayman watch giveaways This month on aBlogtoWatch, we’d like to invite a lucky winner to join us learning to scuba dive…
The Banker names Butterfield “Bank of Year”
From Bernews On Friday, 28 November, international banking industry publication, The Banker, named The Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son Limited and Butterfield Bank [Cayman] Limited the recipients of its Bank of the Year 2014 Awards in Bermuda and the…
Cayman Islands: Tethys Petroleum Limited: Corporate Update
GRAND CAYMAN, CAYMAN ISLANDS–(Marketwired – Dec 1, 2014) – Tethys Petroleum Limited (“Tethys” or the “Company” (TPL.TO) (TPL.L)) is pleased to provide an update to our shareholders on the current operations, forward plans and the strategic focus of the Company…
Leaders are fiddling while Europe burns
By THE ECONOMIST From Business Insider The Performance Of State-Owned Enterprises Has Been Shockingly Bad Europe is in dire economic straits. Growth in the euro zone is stuck below 1%, unemployment is above 11% and inflation is hovering around 0.4%,…
High Court’s first gay-issues ruling
By Tony Mauro, From The National Law Journal Same-sex marriage cases spark new interest in 1958 First Amendment decision. With same-sex marriage litigation pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, lawyers and scholars are focusing intense interest on a long-forgotten, one-line…