United States requests Jack Warner’s extradition for FIFA corruption charges
By Teri Thompson From NEW YORK DAILY NEWS The United States wants indicted former FIFA vice president Jack Warner extradited. As expected, Trinidad and Tobago’s attorney general received a United States request Wednesday for the extradition of former FIFA vice…
Emancipendence on the global level
By Michael Burke From Jamaica Observer Globalisation is mainly about the fact that certain First World economies had mass produced many products, including food, and had no buyers. So we are approaching that time of year again when we celebrate…
BP loses appeal to get spill claimants’ confidential info
By Amanda Bronstad, From The National Law Journal A federal appeals court has struck down BP’s effort at gaining access to confidential information about pending claims to its $9.9 billion oil spill settlement in its ongoing attempt to root out…
Gyrocopter pilot wants to hire first amendment lawyer
By Zoe Tillman From Legal Times Douglas Hughes, the gyrocopter pilot who landed his aircraft on the U.S. Capitol lawn in April to advocate for campaign finance reform, wants to add veteran First Amendment lawyer Mark Goldstone to his criminal…
Another lie: Barbados Government denies it defaulted on loan
By Neville Clarke from Barbados Today Government today dismissed as a “horrible untruth”, an allegation by Opposition leader Mia Mottley that the country had defaulted on a multi-million dollar loan from the Swiss bank Credit Suisse. Minister of Finance and…
Malaria rears its ugly head in Puerto Rico
By Belén Marty From PanAm Post Three cases confirmed after student trip to Dominican Republic Three young men from Puerto Rico are now infected with malaria, as confirmed by Secretary of Health Ana Rius on Sunday, July 19. Although all…
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Here are the 15 feature film projects selected for the inaugural Caribbean Film Mart
By Tambay A. Obenson | Shadow and Act, From Indewire Courtesy of the trinidad+tobago film festival (ttff), here are the 15 feature-film projects, that were selected from 10 countries, that will participate in the festival’s inaugural Caribbean Film Mart (CFM),…
Puerto Rico, a new way station for drug traffickers
From Caribbean Digital Network SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AFP) — By day, bobbing on the waters of the Caribbean, it looks like just another boat out for a day of fishing. But by night the engines roar to life and…
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Michelle T brings praise from Cayman
By Howard Campbell Observer senior writer From Jamaica Observer Though she has been an artiste for over 25 years, singer Michelle T Durrant still gets a few flutters when show time approaches. Known as Michelle T, she makes her first…
Awards & recognitions for the Cayman Islands School of Hospitality students
SHS Awards Ceremony RCGC – 16 July 2015 The Hon. Moses I. Kirkconnell, JP, MLA, Deputy Premier, Minister of District Administration, Tourism and Transportation pictured with students of the School of Hospitality Studies at the inaugural awards and recognition ceremony…
