Premier meets Simmonds
Premier McKeeva Bush was in London, the first stop of an official trip that takes him to Copenhagen and Greenland for meetings of overseas countries and territories. On Thursday, 20th September, the Premier and other members of the Cayman delegation…
Windsor Park Residents Get New Homes
A special opening ceremony held this week (Tuesday, 18 September), gave 26 homeowners and occupying residents an uplifting sense of pride. As part of the National Housing Development Trust (NHDT) Affordable Housing programme, and following some major re-construction at the…
National Contracts Commission Public Notice – NCC Contractor Registration
Kingston; September 21, 2012 – The Office of the Contractor General (OCG) has been requested by the Chairman of the National Contracts Commission (NCC), Mr. Raymond McIntyre, to use its good offices to issue the following NCC notice, via an…
Esterley Tibbetts Highway Extension Update
Construction work on the Esterley Tibbetts Highway Extension continues to progress under the supervision of the NRA. This week Jairam Building Contractors will install arch units for a bridge on the section of highway between Raleigh Quay and Yacht Drive. …
Crime Prevention Expo – North Side
North Side residents will have access to some of the best crime prevention and security advice available next week, thanks to a joint initiative between the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service and North Side District Council. Building on the work…
Conservative party treasurer lobbies for UK to be like Cayman Islands : two opposing views
1. Tory treasurer wants UK to become more like a tax haven By Rajeev Syal and Martin Williams The Guardian Lord Fink calls for tax law changes as Guardian reveals 68 MPs and peers are directors of firms linked to…
Tech firms find havens [like Cayman Islands] from U.S. taxes
By Carolyn Lochhead SF Gate Washington — Silicon Valley multinationals aggressively exploit foreign tax havens in Bermuda, Grand Cayman and elsewhere to dodge U.S. taxes, according to a bipartisan Senate report issued Thursday. Hewlett-Packard, based in Palo Alto, and Microsoft, based…
Two stories on starting an offshore shell company
1. NBC’s I-Team: How We Started An Offshore Shell Company By Chris Glorioso and Tom Burke It doesn’t take a squadron of bankers or lawyers to set up one of these secretive shell corporations that dodge U.S. taxes It is…
CUC apologises
Customers in East End, North Side, Bodden Town, Prospect and parts of George Town were without power Friday (21) morning. All except North Side were due to lightning strikes. In North Side a broken limb came in contact with one…
Drugs without violence in Mexico?
By Mohamed Zayed, iNews Cayman special correspondent The Supreme Committee of the presidential election has declared Enrique Pena Nieto, Institutional Revolutionary Party’s candidate, president with 38 % against his closet leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrado, with a wide margin…
