Cayman’s Enterprise City preferable to Chinese Special Economic Zones
This story appeared on the management.ezinemark.com website and was originally written in Chinese. The translation into English was very basic and was difficult to understand in many places. iNews Cayman has tried to make it easier for our viewers but…
Leaders fall in Europe crisis: Sarkozy next?
(AP) — French President Nicolas Sarkozy is widely expected to be kicked out of office in elections Sunday. If he goes, he’ll be in good company: Almost every crisis-hit European country that has held an election since disaster struck in…
Premier presents to CI Invitational
The Premier the Hon. W. McKeeva Bush, OBE, JP, handed over a cheque for $75,000 to Cayman Islands Invitational organiser and star sprinter, Ms Cydonie Mothersill, at his office on Tuesday, 1 May. The presentation marks the Ministry of Finance,…
World Press Freedom Day – Journalists being killed at ‘astonishing pace
(AP) — On World Press Freedom Day, Reporters Without Borders condemned the “astonishing pace” at which journalists are being attacked and murdered — 67 killed in 2011 and 22 more deaths since the beginning of the year. U.N. Secretary-General Ban…
Cayman Islands is not a place for LGBT honeymooners
The lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people have been provided with a list of the top 10 destinations in the world. Whilst the Caribbean as a group has come in at #10, the Cayman Islands along with Antigua and…
IRS presence at Conference attended by Cayman Islands criticised
From blog.livenewschat.tv/world-newsroom We’re standing by the pool at the Ritz Carlton in Florida’s South Beach, attendees at a financial conference here mingle by the bar and wander through meeting rooms upstairs. This isn’t just any industry conference — it’s the…
Activist’s fate deepens US-China suspicions
AP) — The diplomatic disarray deepened Thursday after a blind activist reversed course and asked to leave China with his family, abandoning an arduously negotiated agreement even though he had left the protection of the U.S. Embassy and was in…
RBC’s merger with RBTT creates new branding of operations in Bridgetown, Barbados
David Hackett, Regional President, Business Banking, Caribbean Banking, RBC, today announced RBTT Bank and RBC Royal Bank will be amalgamated and operate under a single legal entity, RBC Royal Bank (Barbados) Limited, during a press conference in Bridgetown “Today marks…
Cayman Islands’ manager’s questions cause Herbalife to tumble
Herbalife Ltd., the maker of nutritional supplements and weight-management products, fell the most in more than three years after hedge-fund manager David Einhorn asked executives why it has stopped providing information tracking certain groups of its distributors in its filings….
Deal undone? Activist now wants to leave China
(AP) — The blind Chinese dissident who boldly fled house arrest and placed himself under the wing of U.S. diplomats balked Wednesday at a deal delicately worked out between the two countries to let him live freely in China, saying…
