Message from Dr. Shetty at Health City Cayman Islands
Dr. Shetty’s Letter to the Children Following his 4,000th paediatric heart surgery—all without charge—Dr. Shetty wrote the following letter to his paediatric patients and to the children of the world. My Dear Children, I have been planning to write…
Comfort Suites Grand Cayman records best year ever
By Bevan Springer From St Maarten Island Time.Com GRAND CAYMAN, Cayman Islands – The Choice Hotels International, Inc. Caribbean portfolio continues to gain guest appeal. Comfort Suites Seven Mile Beach in Grand Cayman has recorded its best year since it…
GOP stands in way of Obama gambit for offshore corporate cash
By Ben Piven From AlJazeera America President proposes to tax companies’ foreign profits for half-trillion in revenue but faces tough congressional fight Under a plan baked into the White House’s budget for 2016, U.S. corporations would theoretically be forced to…
New Non-resident FSD Judge begins sitting on Cayman Islands bench
Uniquely prepared to serve as a judge in the Financial Services Division of the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands, Justice Nigel Clifford, QC, commenced sitting late February. He will preside over a court before which he himself argued during…
Grazing parrotfish help protect threatened Caribbean coral reefs
By Daniel Kelly From FishSens Magazine Prior to the 1980s, sea urchins were abundant in the Caribbean. They were important to the region’s ecosystem and played a vital role in helping to protect the region’s coral reefs. When their populations…
Cayman Islands: Parent Company Contribution Order: Potential Guidance for Irish Practitioners
By Robin McDonnell and Karole Cuddihy From Maples and Calder In Lewis Holdings Limited & Others v. Steel and Tube Holdings Limited,1 the High Court of New Zealand made an order requiring a parent company to contribute to the debts…
Anger over Ugandan government plan to send doctors to Caribbean
From DW Uganda wants to send hundreds of doctors and nurses to Trinidad and Tobago even though they are desperately needed at home. Critics are taking legal action against the government. Over the next few months Uganda is going to…
Top Gear’s Jeremy Clarkson ‘intensely relaxed’ over BBC suspension
By John Plunkett From The Guardian BBC director general says he ‘needs facts’ on the presenter’s fracas with a producer and there is no timeline for the internal inquiry Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson was said to be “intensely relaxed”…
Cartoon of the week
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,…
RMS Study shows significant tsunami risk in Caribbean, Mediterranean
From Insurance Journal RMS, the catastrophe risk management firm, has released a global tsunami risk study that identifies more than 20 subduction zones worldwide capable of generating a giant earthquake and tsunami – similar in scale to the March 11,…
