To deter inversions, overhaul corporate taxes
From Daily Word Individual taxpayers who think rates are too high can’t just stay in the USA and send their payments to another country, one where they have relatives, that offers lower rates. But corporations can and, increasingly, they do….
US hikes fee to renounce citizenship by 422 Percent to $2,350
By Ronald Kessler From Newsmax The United States plans to hike the fees it charges American citizens to give up their passports as the nation also tries to stem the tide of U.S. businesses moving headquarters overseas. The State Department…
Ascension in the Cayman Islands
From Health City Cayman Islands Strategic Direction for Global Healthcare Delivery Ascension is the largest faith-based and largest not-for-profit health system in the U.S. Its mission-focused Health Ministries employ more than 150,000 associates in more than 1,900 sites of care…
51 years later Dr King’s dream remains unfulfilled
By Sir Ronald Sanders From Caribbean360 BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Thursday August 28, 2014 – I write this commentary on August 28, 2014 – fifty-one years after the Reverend Dr Martin Luther King Jr made his famous speech, “I have a dream”…
White House cannot decide on ISIS threat level
From Newsmax The Obama administration is undecided about the threat level to Americans by the extremist group Islamic State (ISIS) and how they should handle it, The Hill reported. The White House believes there is a notable difference between the…
Relentless commitment to fight crime
From Trinidad Express Minister of National Security Gary Griffith reiterated Trinidad and Tobago’s “relentless commitment” to tackling crime locally and in the wider Caribbean region where it can assist. The assurance was given on Friday to United States Secretary of…
TIGO announced as title sponsor of Central American Cup 2014 USA
Guatemala City, Guatemala (Tuesday, August 19, 2014) – The Central American Football Union (UNCAF) announced Tigo as the title sponsor of the Central American Cup, which will take place in the United States in 2014 from September 3-13, 2014. The…
No new confirmed cases of chikungunya in Cayman Islands
Chikungunya Update as of 18 August 2014 From Cayman Islands Public Health Department Total confirmed cases of chikungunya remain at five as reported on 28 July 2014. Since then there have been no new confirmed cases. Total cases investigated for…
iNews Briefs
Cayman Islands gymnast Lloyd makes history at Youth Olympics From xinhuanet news NANJING, China, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) — As the first gymnast from Cayman Islands to compete internationally, Morgan Lloyd is making history for her NOC, one flip at a…
Caribbean Voices
By Tony Martin From Caribbean Beat Issue 56 “Nothing was created in the West Indies”, V.S. Naipaul famously wrote. Yet many of the earliest writers and thinkers in the Americas were Caribbean men and women, creating histories, novels, essays, poems,…
