[UK] Nursing agency’s £43m NHS payday [owned by Cayman Islands company]
By John Stevens and Lucy Elkins and Rosie Taylor for the DAILY MAIL Mail investigation finds firm billed cash-strapped hospitals as much as £1,800 a shift to plug gap in staffing shortages A nursing agency last year charged the NHS…
Beyond Ebola, laying foundations for Caribbean Regional Health Security
Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago (CARPHA) – Diseases do not recognise borders, and as such, communicable disease outbreaks and epidemics pose a major threat to health, tourism, social and economic development in every country in the Caribbean region. In light of…
Conjoined Twins in Haiti Separated
Conjoined Twins in Haiti Separated by Surgeons From Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and Keck Medicine of the University of Southern California Henri Ford, MD, MHA, the Haitian-born CHLA surgeon in chief, leads international team in rare operation June 06,…
iNews Briefs, More & Community Events
Cayman Islands Community Events TUE JUNE 9 Moonlight and Movies Summer Series The Moonlight and Movies Summer Series is Tuesday (9 Jun) at 7pm in Gardenia Court. The feature film will be Penguins of Madagascar. Sister Islands Community Underwater Clean…
How a teenager survived being trapped underwater for 42 minutes
By Elizabeth Palermo, Livescience From Business Insider The 14-year-old boy, identified only as “Michael” by the Italian newspaper Milan Chronicle, reportedly dived off a bridge into a canal with some friends last month and never resurfaced. His foot became…
Nurses, unions press for hospital $$$ disclosure [funds held in Cayman Islands]
By Matt Murphy From 22 WWLP News STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, JUNE 3, 2015…..Hospital profits and executive compensation came under fire Wednesday from nurses and union leaders who packed a hearing to urge the Legislature to pass a bill forcing hospitals…
Six Caribbean countries achieve Millennium Development Goal on hunger
From CARIBBEAN360 SANTIAGO, Chile – Six Caribbean countries have achieved the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) on hunger. In its latest report, ‘Panorama of Food Insecurity in Latin America and the Caribbean 2015′, released yesterday, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)…
$1.2 Billion settlement in FTC’s suit against Cephalon
By Saranac Hale Spencer, From The Legal Intelligencer The Federal Trade Commission’s biggest settlement to date—$1.2 billion in a pay-for-delay case—came out of federal court in Philadelphia on Thursday. Cephalon, now owned by Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, agreed to settle a…
iNews Briefs, More & Community Events
Cayman Islands Community Events THU JUNE 4 Dart Realty Presentation The Chief Operating Officer of Dart Realty will be hosting a public presentation on the Dart group of companies’ upcoming real estate development plans on Thursday (4 Jun) at 5:30…
Government moves closer towards potential residential mental health facility
Cabinet has approved the release of the strategic outline case (SOC) for a long term residential mental health facility, which has the potential to end the practice of sending persons overseas for such treatment. Part of the management process for…





