A Polish connection: all roads lead to Opole
Michal Kaczmarski From FDiIntelligence The small Polish city of Opole has landed some large investors, particularly in the food processing sector. Michal Kaczmarski looks at how it uses its excellent road connections to punch above its weight. An Italian finding…
Nakhid hopes to become Caribbean’s first FIFA President
By Sean Devers From Kaieteur News Fifty-one year old former Trinidad & Tobago Footballer David Nakhid played 35 Internationals and scored eight goals for T&T between 1992 and 2005. The mid-fielder also played professionally in Belgium, Switzerland, Greece, Lebanon, Trinidad…
Cayman Islands: Understanding The AIFMD distribution landscape
By Derek Delaney From DMS Offshore Investment Services “I was in Chicago recently. A German pension fund said they had a USD500m allocation in a Chicago-based fund. They wanted to know that they could continue having a relationship with the…
DMS Offshore Investment Services onboards White Oak AIF on Irish platform
GRAND CAYMAN, Cayman Islands, Feb. 23, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — DMS Offshore Investment Services Ltd. (DMS), the world’s largest fund governance firm, and White Oak Global Advisors, LLC (White Oak) have announced the launch of an Alternative Investment Fund (AIF) hosted…
The Rise of the Gulf Carriers
By Ashley Kindergan From The Financialist Every company can count on an existential threat showing up at its door sooner or later. For European and Asian airlines, that time is now, and it is three Persian Gulf-based carriers that are…
Why plunging oil prices should worry Caribbean governments
By David Jessop From Antillean Media Group Effects on the Venezuelan economy, and its ability to sustain the PetroCaribe agreement with Caribbean countries, is now a major economic worry On the face of it, the collapse in global oil prices…
Blood of the Irish
Blood of the Irish: What DNA tells us about the ancestry of people in Ireland From Hub Pages Blood of the Irish The Blood in Irish veins is Celtic, right? Well, not exactly. Although the history many Irish people were…
The Cayman Islands target industry professionals during Europe
The engage!14 wedding summit took over Grand Cayman 17 — 20 November with three days of inspiration, insights and innovation for the industry’s best planners, designers, photographers and more. The buzz created by these wedding professionals inspired the Cayman Islands…
Try this Thanksgiving-inspired chicken liver pâté with bourbon and cranberry
By Daniel Gritzer Culinary Director From Serious Eats All-American ingredients like bourbon, apple cider, and cranberries are the stars of this holiday pâté. [Photographs: Vicky Wasik] I read somewhere recently that pâté had gone out of style. That bothered me,…
Airport Carbon Accreditation programme goes global
From Airport World The Airport Carbon Accreditation programme now covers every region of the globe after it was announced at the 23rd ACI Latin America & Caribbean (LAC) Annual Conference and General Assembly in Cancun last week it was to…