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Litigation funders hit with sanctions in $180 million case v. Cigna
By Alison Frankel From Reuters (Reuters) – Litigation funding is an opaque industry. Sure, extremely large funds like Burford Capital, Bentham IMF and Gerchen Keller put out occasional press releases to announce new capital or quarterly results. Once in a…
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Tourism Matters: Returning to airlift
By Adrian Loveridge From Caribbean news Now I make no apologies in returning to airlift this week because, it is one of the most critical factors in our overall tourism success or failure. Take the United States as a classic…
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Haiti: Time is running out
By Sir Ronald Sanders From Caribbean News Now Luis Almagro, the secretary-general of the Organisation of American states (OAS), has told political stakeholders in Haiti, including the interim government and parliamentarians, that it is imperative that they fully assume their…
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ON THE RIGHT: Caribbean tourism will feel Brexit
By David Jessop From Barbados Nation News IT SEEMS TO ME, when I was looking at some of the issues for tourism, that the tourism industry doesn’t actually have the same luxury to wait and take some of this analysis…
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Peter Binose: The Unity Labour Party, the German Nazi Party, the Cubans, Venezuelans and the Cyber Crime Bill
By Peter Binose The Cyber Crime Act is designed to stop citizens from writing and also to stop them reading the truth about their leaders. The German Nazi Party put a similar Act in place but of course at that…
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CARICOM and correspondent banking
By Martin Henry From Jamaica Gleaner After a 39-year withdrawal, we could well see a return of Barclays Bank to Jamaica’s shores in short order. Barclay’s pulled out in 1977, selling its operations to the brand new ‘indigenous’ National Commercial…
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On the LGBT issue in the Caribbean: Why Jean H. Charles is wrong
By Dr Lazarus Castang From caribbean News Now I read with intrigue Jean Hervé Charles’ account of his journey of acceptance and tolerance of homosexuality into his social outlook and perspective, entitled “My take on the LGBT issue”. I want…
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Violence begets violence
MY LIFE IN KEY WEST From KEW WEST LOU Dallas last night. St. Anthony and Baton Rouge a few days earlier. Multiple black killings by police officers the past several years. You know the facts. I want to share a…
Britain’s divorce a sign of sovereign insecurity
By Vinette K. Pryce From Caribbean Life It’s interesting to see how one of Europe’s architects of colonization recently trod a similar path some of their colonized possessions maneuvered when in the last century they voted to be independent. In…
Peter Binose: Trailing the cocaine route through Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Remember how I once wrote about our Argyle airport being built to service the cocaine trade. http://www.caribbeannewsnow.com/headline-Letter%3A-Is-cocaine-the-real-reason-for-St-Vincent’s-Argyle-International-Airport%3F-29124.html On Sunday the 8th on November 2015 a Cessna Citation 500 took off from one of the government-operated terminals at Simón Bolívar International…
