Tropical Atlantic Remains Quiet As Two Hurricanes Churn In The Eastern Pacific
Rob Lighbown of Crown Weather says: The tropical Atlantic has absolutely nothing to keep an eye on this morning. On the weather map this morning, a frontal boundary is expected to continue sinking southward across the Mid-Atlantic and southeastern United…
Anxiety and violence
Coping with anxiety is something that most people have probably dealt with at some point in their lives. Being nervous and twitchy about something is a natural reaction, particularly in a world of lawsuits, divorce papers, terrorist threats, and Orwellian…
Managing Director Leaves NRA
The National Roads Authority (NRA) Board of Directors have announced that Mr. Brian Tomlinson is no longer employed with the NRA effective 29 June 2012. Mr. Tomlinson served the NRA in his capacity as the Managing Director for almost five…
Butterfield Trust Makes Senior Appointments To Cayman Office
Butterfield Trust in the Cayman Islands is pleased to announce that it has appointed Brian Balleine to the position of Senior Vice President and Head of Trust and Gina Nelson to the position of Head of Business Development in the…
Hedge Funds Are Not Like Banks (and That’s Okay!)
By Kevin Roose writing in The New York I can’t decide what the funniest thing is about Azam Ahmed’s Times story* (which expands on a FT story last year) on the ludicrous world of Cayman Islands–domiciled hedge funds and their…
Understanding accountability in OMOV and SMC
As we draw nearer to the Referendum on 18 July 2012, much has been said concerning one man, one vote (“OMOV”) in single-member constituencies (“SMC”) and the attendant equality of voters. Therefore, by now, everyone with an open mind probably…
Official: Cayman Rodeo in play
It feels a bit like Texas here in the Cayman Islands. The weather is super hot and the only difference from Texas is, it is steamy and not dry. But we are having a rodeo and the cattle being roped…
Libor scandal: Paul Tucker denies ‘leaning on’ Barclays
The deputy governor of the Bank of England (BoE) has said he did not give Barclays instructions to lower its Libor submissions in 2008. Paul Tucker said no government minister had asked him to “lean on” Barclays over its inter-bank…
Which way is up?
Garnett Roper, GUEST COLUMNIST for The Jamaican Gleaner As Jamaica celebrates 50 years of political Independence, the question of the adequacy and appropriateness of its political-economic system is a moot one. It is clear that since Independence, the political economy…
Travel Advisory: Cholera Outbreak in Cuba
Following a cholera outbreak in Cuba, Cayman’s Medical Officer of Health Dr. Kiran Kumar has issued a travel advisory recommending travel to that country on an essential basis only. According to media reports Cuba is facing a cholera outbreak 130…
