Canada: Legal implications of accepting Bitcoin as payment
By Rahim Esmail, Emily MacKinnon and Terry Gao From McCarthy Tétrault LLP The number of Canadian businesses accepting virtual currencies as a form of payment is growing. Bitcoin is emerging as the most popular of these new currencies – none…
Dad on the hook for half daughter’s Cornell Law Tuition
By Karen Sloan, The National Law Journal A father who’d agreed to shoulder half the cost of his daughter’s legal education—before she got into Cornell Law School, which costs $225,000 to attend—found no relief from a New Jersey court late…
Full television schedule announced for CONCACAF Champions League Quarterfinal matchups
All Eight quarterfinal games will be televised across a majority of the Confederation Market MIAMI (Thursday, March 6, 2014) – The Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) released today the broadcast schedule for the 2013-14 CONCACAF…
Caybrew Chili Cookoff March 22 at 12:00 noon
You guys remember the old entry to the Hyatt Regency Hotel off West Bay Rd. next to LONE STAR BAR? The one that is across the street from LACOVIA CONDOS? Drive by and you will notice that the enclosed land…
Chicken dinners: baked spaghetti with chicken (spaghetti pie)
By Yvonne Ruperti From Serious Eats My family ate a lot of spaghetti when I was growing up. Naturally, there were always containers of leftover pasta in the fridge. Because simply reheating leftover spaghetti in the microwave gets boring, and…
Coast guard seizes $1.8 Million marijuana shipment
From Military.com SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Coast Guard, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) seized a go-fast vessel, 30 bales of marijuana and apprehended two smugglers following an…
Commonwealth Day Service Sunday 9th March
Everyone is invited to the Service in Observance of Commonwealth Day 2014 on Sunday 9th March 2014 at 4pm at St George’s Anglican Church, Courts Road, Eastern Ave.. George Town, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands Commonwealth Theme for 2014: Team Commonwealth…
The Editor Speaks: UK’s ‘beneficial ownership’ plan attacked
It is not surprising that the Cayman Islands Law Society and the Chamber of Commerce have both made public their opposition to the United Kingdom’s proposals to make public the list of individuals or companies that benefit from registered financial…
New President for ICCI
Dr David Marshall, a Chicago college VP has been appointed to the top job at the International College of the Cayman Islands (ICCI). Dr Marshall succeeds Dr Tasha Ebanks-Garcia, who is now the deputy chief officer at the employment ministry….
Burglaries on the rise in Cayman
With 111 people arrested on suspicion of burglary in the Cayman Islands last year the Royal Cayman islands Police Service has said the “rise is of major concern”. Scores of suspects arrested but burglaries still on the rise, yearend crime…
