Is offshore drilling any safer for the environment today?
From Caribbean News Now Dear EarthTalk: Is offshore drilling any safer for the environment today given lessons learned from the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico? — Leslie Jackson, Bern, NC The Deepwater Horizon oil rig…
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Caribbean’s religious diversity celebrated at CARIFESTA X
From Caricom Today This is one in a series of articles, photographs and videos from our archives that we will share over the next few weeks as we continue the countdown to CARIFESTA XII in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 21-30 August. The…
Cayman Islands Under 15 Boys claim Third Place in the CFU Under 15 Championships after penalty shootout
From CFU The Cayman Islands Under 15 National Football Team claimed third place in the 2015 Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Under 15 Championships on Sunday afternoon following an enthralling 5-4 sudden death penalty shootout win over St. Lucia in St….
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Community Events Grand Court Jurors Report Date Changed The Grand Court jury report date has been changed. Grand Court Jurors who are in the 1 July – 6 October 2015 session, please be advised that the jury report date of…
Cayman Islands Government bids interns farewell
Cayman Islands Government (CIG) Ministers and officials came together at the Government Administration Building on Tuesday, 11 August 2015 to say farewell to 120 interns who have worked for government this summer. The one hour reception organised by the Chief…
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RBC sponsors 18th Annual RBC/Cayman Islands Red Cross Golf Tournament
On September 4, 2015, RBC Royal Bank will continue its 18 year partnership with the Cayman Islands Red Cross (CIRC) as the title sponsor of the 2015 Annual RBC/Charitable Golf Tournament. The event, which features a four-man scramble format with…
Cayman Islands awarded top offshore domicile for captives
GEORGE TOWN, Grand Cayman–(BUSINESS WIRE) — The Cayman Islands has been recognised at the 2015 US Captive Services Awards, winning the top prize in the 2015 ‘Offshore Captive Domicile’ category. Cayman won the award by demonstrating its ongoing commitment to…
Further momentum in global expansion of Mourant Ozannes’ BVI practice
Leading offshore law firm, Mourant Ozannes, has announced a number of key changes to its global BVI law practice, which sees the firm strengthen its BVI team in all major time zones. The growth of the firm’s BVI practice in…
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The View from Europe: New threats to Caribbean cyber security
By David Jessop From Caribbean News Now Cyber-security incidents continue to rise. According to PwC’s Global State of Information Security Survey 2015, attacks rose internationally by 48 percent in 2014 resulting in huge remedial and reputational costs to the companies…
Cayman Islands implementing OECD common reporting standard by October 2015
By Martin Livingston, Alasdair Robertson, Tahir Jawed, Andrew Quinn, Richard Grasby, Harjit Kaur and Michael Gagie From Maples and Calder On 16 June 2015 the Department of International Tax Cooperation (the “DITC”) of the Cayman Islands government announced that it…
