Jamaica showcases offerings at Caribbean Travel Marketplace
From Breaking Travel News Jamaica is showcasing some of its spectacular tourism offerings this week as Montego Bay plays host to the Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Association’s (CHTA) premier tourism marketing event, Caribbean Travel Marketplace 2014. The marketplace, which is…
Feds free to ‘liquidate’ seized silk road Bitcoins worth $25M
By Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchiera From Mashable Federal prosecutors are now free to cash in on the Bitcoin seized from the online drug marketplace Silk Road. United States District Judge J. Paul Oetken signed off on the forfeiture order for the Bitcoins,…
St Lucia police to charge three in murder of British tourist
[*see update below – 2 more arrests] From Caribbean360 The results of a post mortem on Robert Pratt indicate that he died of asphyxia secondary to blunt force trauma. CASTRIES, St. Lucia, Wednesday January 22, 2014, CMC – Charges are…
Aud Gen announces five reports on Cayman governance
The Auditor General, Alastair Swarbrick, made public on Wednesday January 22nd 2014 five reports on Governance in the Cayman Islands Government. The five reports describe how governance works in the Cayman Islands Government and provide an assessment of how well…
OAS anti-corruption mechanism to visit six Caribbean countries
From Caribbean News Now WASHINGTON, USA — The Anticorruption Mechanism of the Organization of American States (OAS) will hold on-site visits in April to Belize, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, St Vincent and the Grenadines, and Suriname, in the framework of the…
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Former Tempura boss files criminal complaint Martin Bridger, the former senior investigator in Operation Tempura has filed a criminal complaint with Cayman Islands Police Commissioner David Baines against Attorney General Samuel Bulgin, former Governor Stuart Jack and the U.K.’s Foreign…
Has science discovered God?
From Y-Jesus Einstein didn’t believe it was possible. Stephen Hawking said it might be the greatest scientific discovery of all time. What discovery baffled the greatest scientific minds of the past century, and what caused them to rethink the origin…
What’s hot in 2014? Taking travel to new extremes
By Maria Lenhart From Travel Market Report Travelers want to go to extremes in 2014 – so travel agents should not hold back from steering their clients in new directions. So says travel trends expert Daniel Levine, executive director of…
British spies are officially getting the ‘License To Speed’
By AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE From Business Insider British spies are to be given a “licence to speed”, allowing the likes of James Bond to drive fast with impunity in the name of national security. Transport minister Robert Goodwill was to…
NYT: NSA embeds radio transmitters to access offline computers from miles away
By Richard Lawler From engadget [Another] fun NSA revelation comes courtesy of the New York Times, reporting on an agency program to access and alter data on computers that aren’t connected to the internet. Cherry picked from the NSA’s tool…
