Fizzling Out
By Intellgencer Staff The Weekend Reader Required Reading for Political Compulsives 1. The Anti-Mamdani Movement Is FizzlingIt now looks like Mamdani’s race to lose. Haters will understand this soon enough. 2. Suddenly, Silicon Valley Is Lowering AI ExpectationsSam Altman is…
Smoke, fire, and exploitation
By Ellie Finkelstein, Freedom United August 24th, 2025 News Digest OUR CAMPAIGN ISSUES IN THE NEWS Forced laborSmoke, fire, and exploitation: how climate change fuels modern slaveryAs climate chaos intensifies, workers are forced into ever more dangerous conditions—picking crops through…
Cayman: Police Advise of Phishing Text Message Claiming to be from Local Bank
From RCIPS The RCIPS Cyber Crime Unit has become aware of a phishing SMS text message circulating in the Cayman Islands purporting to be from Cayman National Bank. The SMS claims that the your bank account has been frozen due…
Cayman: Traffic Stop Leads to Recovery of Substantial Quantity of Ganja
From RCIPS Shortly after 9:40PM Thursday, 21 August, officers were conducting a vehicle checkpoint along Yacht Drive when they detected the strong scent of ganja coming from a vehicle which had just been stopped at the checkpoint. Officers conducted a…
Cayman: UPDATE: Man Charged with Manslaughter
From RCIPS The man, age 61, residing in George Town, who was arrested in September 2024 on suspicion of manslaughter in relation to an incident which occurred on 21 January, 2024, has now been formally charged with Manslaughter. He is…
The world is on fire—and the powerful are walking away
By Joanna Ewart-James, Freedom United From political backsliding to climate disaster, corporate abuse to mass displacement, we are witnessing rising inequality—and rising exploitation. Governments are scaling back. Anti-trafficking funding is drying up. And corporations are raking in profit while workers suffer abuse…
The Collapse Heard in Zurich, Reported in Antigua
The fall of Credit Suisse in 2023 was supposed to be a European story. A Swiss banking titan crumbled, $17 billion in Additional Tier 1 bonds vanished overnight, and regulators scrambled to justify the chaos. The narrative should have belonged…
Agenda Launch – OffshoreAlert London 2025
Agenda Launch Artificial Intelligence dominates the now-live agenda for OffshoreAlert’s 12th Annual London Conference on December 1-2. Nearly one-third of the 16 sessions are AI-related, collectively equating to an A-Z guidebook for investigators, asset recovery specialists, researchers, legal and financial professionals, compliance officers, and others. Sessions…
Cayman Islands Launches 2025-2026 National Risk Assessment
Grand Cayman, 21 August 2025 – The Cayman Islands has launched its 2025-2026 National Risk Assessment (NRA), a significant step in strengthening the country’s framework against money laundering, terrorist financing, and proliferation financing. Importantly, completion of the NRA is also…
Commodities Broker Marex Faces Lawsuit Over Alleged Misuse Of Client Data
From finimize What’s going on here? Commodities broker Marex is in the spotlight after being accused in a London lawsuit of misusing client data for its own trading advantage, with damages of at least £10 million on the line. What…
