This technology is helping young girls with a rare syndrome communicate
BY JONATHAN KEANE When 13-year-old Nathalia Lawlor was born, she seemed perfectly healthy, moving and babbling like any other baby. But at around six or seven months, she started to lose her coordination and ability to move. Once able to…
Apple: The European Union’s Pointless Tax Crusade
By Mark Hibben From Seeking Alpha Since the late ’80s, Apple and other US multinationals have used Irish tax law to shield overseas profits from taxation by the EU or the US. The European Union has declared the Irish tax…
Rio Olympics 2016: Three more Irish officials investigated in ticket-scalping probe
By OSSIAN SHINE From Stuff Brazilian police raided Irish Olympic officials on the last day of the Rio Games on Sunday (Monday NZ Time), seizing passports, computers, mobile phones and unused tickets in a rapidly expanding investigation into allegations of an…
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The Editor speaks: An Irish cop with impressive pedigree
We now have a new police commissioner, Derek Patrick Byrne from Ireland. One of our lead stories today from the Irish Independent describes his leaving his previous post as Assistant Commissioner at the gardaí, as a “major blow”. Byrne had…
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Tourism Matters: Returning to airlift
By Adrian Loveridge From Caribbean news Now I make no apologies in returning to airlift this week because, it is one of the most critical factors in our overall tourism success or failure. Take the United States as a classic…
Destination of the week
Why Montserrat is this year’s hottest Caribbean cruise destination By Elissa Garay After years of limited access due to volcanic activity, the island paradise of Montserrat is now accessible to cruisers. If you love everything about the concept of a…
Global Indemnity plc announces proposed redomestication to the Cayman Islands from Ireland
June 20, 2016 06:00 ET | Source: Global Indemnity plc DUBLIN, Ireland, June 20, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Global Indemnity, plc (NASDAQ:GBLI) (the “Company”) announced today that its Board of Directors has unanimously approved a plan to re-domicile from Ireland…
Foreign ownership of US debt falls for 1st time in 6 months [Cayman Islands decline]
BY CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER AP Economics Writer From The Herald Foreign holdings of U.S. Treasury securities slipped for the first time in six months, led by declines in Ireland and the Cayman Islands, the third and fourth largest owners of U.S….
Maples and Calder recruits trusts specialist Ray Davern
Maples and Calder has continued to strengthen its international Trusts and Private Client practice with the appointment of Ray Davern, who joins the firm on 6 June 2016 as a partner in its London office. Ray brings with him over…
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It’s time to stop ‘dissing’ our heroes, and get rid of mediocrity
BY HG HELPS Editor-at-Large [email protected] From Jamaica Observer As ridiculous as it sounded, news came last week by way of a badly written news release issued by the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) —something that has become common in the…
