Caribbean Leadership Symposium
From Church of God World Missions Leaders of the entire Caribbean region converged on the island of Puerto Rico recently for the first Leadership Orientation and Symposium following General Assembly 2014. Delegates were welcomed by Bishop Lopez and his team…
1MDB, Cayman Islands and our very own Kancil
From Apanama We have known more about 1MDB and the once notorious Cayman Islands in the last one week than in the last one year or so. We know now that the notorious Cayman Islands also boasts big names and…
Russia cracks down on offshore havens
By Svetlana Sukhova From Real Clear World MOSCOW – There is nothing new about offshore tax shelters. In ancient Athens, after the government decided to levy a 2% tax on all trade operations, merchants started avoiding the city, conducting business…
CIBC First Caribbean International informs customers its intention to vary terms of its present arrangement [in Barbados & Cayman Islands] – see Consumerism
By Jeff Cumberbatch From The Barbados Advocate Musings: The Consumerist Agenda I Even though there is much fodder for a columnist these days, the plain incongruity of some regional affairs forces me, in part, to revert to a theme I…
Female primates are promiscuous to stop males from killing their offspring
By Kashmira Gander From The Independent “As a result, some males have testicles which are up to 10 times larger than normal in breeding season” Some female primates are promiscuous in order to prevent males from killing their offspring. It…
EU judges, Maltese mysteries, and Christians in the Caribbean
PART IV By Nikolaj Nielsenn From EUobserver BRUSSELS – John Dalli, flanked by his lawyers, enters the blue-carpeted chamber of the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg and faces a panel of five black-robed judges. It is July 2014 –…
Caribbean private sector needs help
From Guardian TT Executive director of the Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export), Pamela Coke-Hamilton, says private sector organisations across the Caribbean are in urgent need of support as they continue to mitigate the negative effects of the global recession…
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,…
Brian Lenihan Snr and Haughey named in Ansbacher file – Former Tanaiste held Cayman Island
By Daniel McConnell From Sunday Independent THE late former Tanaiste Brian Lenihan Senior and former Taoiseach Charles Haughey are two of nine former leading politicians named in the controversial Ansbacher dossier as having Cayman Island accounts for the purpose of…
homeless community that lived beneath Manhattan
Striking photos of the homeless community that lived beneath Manhattan By Christian Storm From Business Insider New York City has a long and sordid history with its homeless. While the city has been attempting to deal with the problem for…