Police warn of new e-mail scam
Scammers posing as holidaymakers who claim to have been left penniless after being robbed at gunpoint are targeting people in the Cayman Islands. The author claims that he /she and their family have had cash and credit cards stolen and…
Prisoner escapes from CI Hospital: Photo and description released
The RICPS confirmed to us that at around 12.30pm Thu (19) a male prisoner, Jeremy Claston Holness, aged 30,who was being treated at the Cayman Islands Hospital in George Town, escaped from his police guard. Officers are currently searching for…
No Binding Result in Referendum
Referendum 2012 on adopting a system of single member constituencies concluded with neither ‘Yes’ nor ‘No’ votes achieving a binding result. Official results from the Elections Office Referendum Command Centre indicate 8,677 of the 15,161 registered voters, or 57.23 per…
Some of Obama’s top donors have Cayman Islands’ accounts
In one of the president’s latest campaign commercials — an ominous spot that looks a bit like the trailer to a B-grade horror movie — Mitt Romney gets some flak for his offshore bank accounts. Apparently, keeping money in places…
Romney Explains Cayman Island Investments
Mitt Romney, in an interview with the National Review, improved greatly on his campaign’s halting explanation of why he has held investments in the Cayman Islands, a Caribbean tax haven. Still, the new defense seems unlikely to quell attacks from…
Syria conflict: Ministers ‘killed in suicide attack’
Three men at the heart of President Assad’s defence team have died in a suicide bombing, Syrian state TV says. The president’s defence minister, brother-in-law and head of his crisis team were at a meeting at national security headquarters in…
Richard Murphy doesn’t like the Cayman Islands. But it’s so nice here.
Richard Murphy (54) is a chartered accountant and economist. He has been described by the Guardian newspaper as an “anti-poverty campaigner and tax expert”. He is a co-author of ‘Tax Havens: How Globalization Really Works‘, Cornell University Press, 2009. He is now…
OCG Concludes Investigation into PBX Telephone System Contract Award by Accountant General’s Department
The Office of the Contractor General (OCG) has concluded its Special Investigation into allegations of impropriety and/or irregularity in the circumstances surrounding the award of a contract, by the Accountant General’s Department (AGD), to a named contractor, for the supply…
HSBC to close down Mexico unit’s USD accounts in Cayman Islands
HSBC Holdings Plc’s head of group compliance, David Bagley, told a Senate hearing he will step down amid charges the bank gave terrorists, drug cartels and criminals access to the U.S. financial system by failing to guard against money laundering. Bagley…
Bush replies to McLaughlin over claims of misuse of public funds
Premier, Hon. McKeeva Bush said on Tuesday (17) that there was nothing wrong with any government funding a campaign to inform people of the position it has taken. This was in reply to opposition leader, Hon. Alden McLaughlin’s call to…
