International Banking Group (IBG), the newest bank in the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI), and a subsidiary of the Cayman Islands Cayman National Corporation, will cease retail operations, effective tomorrow Tuesday August 14th. Chris Johnson, managing partner of Chris Johnson Associates, who is currently working extensively in the TCI said to iNews Cayman: “An incredibly […]
Germans Confront The Costs Of A Nuclear-Free Future
August 14, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By Eric Westervelt of wbur After Japan’s Fukushima disaster last year, Germany announced a groundbreaking energy plan: It would phase out all of its domestic nuclear power in a decade and make a transition to safer, carbon neutral energy. The goal is to have solar, wind and other renewables account for nearly 40 percent of […]
Cayman National subsidiary IBG Bank closing down
August 14, 2012 by Leave a Comment
International Banking Group (IBG), the newest bank in the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI), and a subsidiary of the Cayman Islands Cayman National Corporation, will cease retail operations, effective today Tuesday August 14th. Chris Johnson, managing partner of Chris Johnson Associates, who is currently working extensively in the TCI said to iNews Cayman: “An incredibly […]
Men’s Soccer Team Takes Trip to Cayman Islands
August 13, 2012 by Leave a Comment
LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN, Ga.- The Covenant College Men’s Soccer team left campus on Thursday, August 2nd for a soccer missions trip to the Cayman Islands. The team arrived on campus three days before leaving in order to prepare as a team for the trip ahead. During this time they were able to meet with the new […]
AIBA to sue Olympic broadcaster BBC after London 2012 cash for medal allegations repeated
August 13, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By Tom Degun at ExCeL in London The International Boxing Association (AIBA) has announced that it will sue the BBC after the Olympic broadcaster last night rebroadcast allegations from its Newsnight documentary last year in which it claimed Azerbaijan had secretly paid millions in exchange for two boxing Olympic gold medals at London 2012. The […]
Kevin Pietersen dropped by England for text message dispute
August 13, 2012 by Leave a Comment
On Saturday, Pietersen removed his threat to retire but the England and Wales Cricket Board wanted confirmation he had not texted Proteas players. “This has not been forthcoming despite timelines being set,” said England cricket managing director Hugh Morris. In a statement, Pietersen said: “To say I am gutted is an understatement.” Pietersen’s omission comes […]
Three killed in shooting near Texas campus
August 13, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Three people – a police officer, a civilian and a gunman – have died in a shooting near a university in the US state of Texas, police say. Several others have been admitted to hospital after being wounded in the shooting in College Station city. The attack happened within two streets of Texas A&M University […]
Emails told of fears over EADS unexplained payments to the Cayman Islands
August 13, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By Carola Hoyos, Financial Times Senior executives of pan-European defence group EADS were alerted five years ago about questionable payments made by one of its subsidiaries in Saudi Arabia to an account in the Cayman Islands that is now the subject of a criminal probe by the UK’s Serious Fraud Office. Mike Paterson, then financial […]
Norway massacre could have been avoided
August 13, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By Richard Allen Greene, CNN The bomb and gun rampage that left 77 people dead in Norway last summer could have been avoided, an independent report found Monday. Anders Behring Breivik is on trial in the bombing in central Oslo that left eight people dead, followed by a shooting spree at a youth camp on […]
Nasa Mars Curiosity rover ships back detailed crater images
August 13, 2012 by Leave a Comment
NASA’s Curiosity rover has shipped back to Earth high-resolution color images of its surroundings on Mars, sharpening our views of an intriguing channel, layered buttes and a layer of cobbles and pebbles embedded in a finer matrix of material. The images show a landscape closely resembling portions of the southwestern United States, adding to the […]
