Standard Chartered agrees settlement with New York regulator
Standard Chartered has agreed a $340m (£217m) settlement with New York regulators that accused it of hiding $250bn of transactions with Iran. The hearing that had been scheduled for Wednesday has now been adjourned. The bank’s chief executive Peter Sands…
Cayman Islands featured on new presidential campaign video
More free publicity on the Cayman Islands: Dem super-PAC tweaks Romney on ‘Cayman daydream’ By Cameron Joseph A Democratic super-PAC is up with a new video tweaking Mitt Romney on having a “Cayman daydream.” The group, American Bridge, uses footage…
Cayman Islands’ Vivine’s Kichen makes Newsweek’s Top Chefs 101 Best Places to Eat Around the World
A global survey deserves a global panel of judges. So when Newsweek decided to compile the finest, oddest, most memorable dining hotspots from Australia to Monaco, we gathered 53 luminary chefs to help us with the task. They’ve highlighted 101…
Is Bush correct in his opinion regarding the UK and its relationship with its Overseas Territories?
The Cayman Islands premier, Hon. McKeeva Bush, has blasted out at nearly every public opportunity to show his discontent and anger in his dealings with the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). Faceless bureaucrats is one of his expressions describing…
Fighting obesity
Recent studies came up with a statistical figure that approximately fifty-eight million men and women are overweight; roughly forty million are obese; and around three million are morbidly obese. Another study said that eight out of ten adults over twenty-five…
Clothing Drive for Young Families
If babies are no longer in your future and you are looking to clear some space, Department of Counselling Services’ Family Resource Centre (FRC) is organizing a Young Parent Drive where baby items, maternity and professional clothes will be put…
Even Grand Cayman is wheelchair accessible on a Caribbean Cruise
By Bari Schlesinger, the Assistive Technology Services Coordinator for the California Department of Rehabilitation and a motorized wheelchair user. I hear it all the time. “I can’t travel because I am in wheelchair.” “I can’t go on a cruise.” But…
Encouraging Healthy Relationships with Dads
Knowing the impact of a healthy relationship with your dad, Family Resource Centre (FRC), with generous support from Hedge Fund Cares, presents Fathers First. Held at FRC’s office, six sessions will focus on areas such as responsible fatherhood, dealing with…
Highwater expands to New York
George Town, Grand Cayman, 14 August, 2012: HighWater Limited (“HighWater”), a boutique corporate governance services firm based in the Cayman Islands, has expanded with a New York-based Principal. Matt Auriemma, who will be based in New York, joins as a…
Butterflies and balloons at Fukushima
Nuclear meltdowns make everything depressing, and this week, even butterflies and balloons have seen their normally cheery image marred by radioactivity. First butterflies. A paper in the open-access journal Scientific Reports, shows mutations in butterfly populations around the Fukushima plant,…
