Las Vegas News Briefs
Las Vegas News Briefs − October 2020 Downtown Grand Hotel & Casino Celebrates Grand Opening of Gallery TowerDowntown Grand Hotel & Casino celebrated the grand opening of its new 495-room Gallery Tower with a rooftop ceremony on the Citrus Grand…
Month to celebrate the older person: Debby or Debbie
I wrote this to celebrate the event when Hurricane Debby on August 24 2000 took a different turn and missed our Islands. As a result we benefited from the ships that were to visit, Barbuda, Saint Martin, and Trinidad and Tobago,…
Cayman Traffic Advisory: Road closures along George Town waterfront
From RCIPS Oct 6 2020 Due to the current weather conditions and wave activity on the George Town Waterfront, caused by the passage of Hurricane Delta, sections of the roadway along Harbour Drive and North Church Street have been closed….
Free public transport
Locally emission−free public transport in Brittany: 92 Mercedes−Benz eCitaro and eCitaro G with fully−electric drive for the French Metropole Rennes Largest foreign order for the Mercedes-Benz eCitaro since production began Rennes: “Star-Network”, a thoroughly modern public transport network with ambitious…
Good news for emerging businesses – BASIL SPRINGER COLUMN
By Basil Springer “Like cold water to a weary soul, so is good news from a distant land.” – Proverbs 25:25 Last week, senior economist at the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), Dr. Justin Ram, identified a dip in the average income…
ESMA to get greater non-EU firm monitoring powers
By Emilio Demetriou-Jones From GBRR In a move that could allow European investors to avoid publicly disclosing certain UK-based transactions, the European Securities and Markets Authority has confirmed it will assess UK trading venues before the end of the year…
“There is time if you start now”: regulators push greater urgency on benchmark transition
By Douglas Thomson From GBRR The Bank of England and Monetary Authority of Singapore are among the global regulators appealing for urgency with next year’s transition away from the Ibor benchmarks – even as nearly two thirds of firms at…
If we don’t act, the entire U.S. could become a ‘Cancer Alley’
The area with the country’s highest concentration of chemical plants, and highest cancer and COVID-19 mortality rates, is getting worse. By Sharon Lavigne / Independent Media Institute People across the country are waking up to structural racism and coping with police…
Quotable Caribbean – October 5, 2020
“This decision (to cancel Trinidad and Tobago Carnival 2021) I know would have serious economic knock-on effects, things that we would lose in terms of the economy but by the same token, we can’t hope to gain on that swing…
OPINION: Time to put Saint Vincent and the Grenadines FIRST
By Nathan Green. October 05, 2020. The Vincentian people are sick and tired of being put in second, third, or fourth place by Ralph Gonsalves and the Unity Labour Party. In first place is Cuba, in second place Venezuela, it…



















