Lloyds fined for PPI payment delay by FSA
Lloyds Banking Group has been fined £4.3m for delaying compensation payments to customers over Payment Protection Insurance (PPI) mis-selling. The Financial Services Authority (FSA) said that 140,000 customers did not receive their payments promptly. Hundreds of thousands of people have…
Oscar Pistorius ‘thought he was firing at intruder’
South African athletics star Oscar Pistorius has denied murdering his girlfriend, saying he shot her by mistake thinking she was an intruder. He told a packed bail hearing in Pretoria that he loved Reeva Steenkamp and had never intended to…
Digital Storage Speeds Trade and Business Processes
Effective immediately, the Trade and Business Licence Unit (TBL) is now storing files digitally. This move will result in faster document retrieval, as well as greater sharing of multiple-purpose documents across government departments, once the relevant permissions are granted. *‘When…
Kate is “irreproachable: as painfully thin as anyone could wish …with plastic smile”
Cameron defends Kate over Mantel comments Prime Minister David Cameron has defended the Duchess of Cambridge, saying author Hilary Mantel was “completely wrong” to compare her to a “shop-window mannequin”. Mantel said at the London Review of Books Lecture the…
Nigeria Islamists Ansaru claim Bauchi Setraco seizures
Nigerian militant group Ansaru says it kidnapped seven foreign workers in a raid that saw a security guard killed. Italian, British, Greek and Lebanese workers are thought to be among those being held after the attack in the northern state…
China military unit ‘behind prolific hacking’
A secretive branch of China’s military is probably one of the world’s “most prolific cyber espionage groups”, a US cyber security firm has said. Mandiant said Unit 61398 was believed to have “systematically stolen hundreds of terabytes of data” from…
GMIC to Develop Certification Around APEX Green Meeting Standards
by Matt Alderton PRCaribbean CEO and co-founder and past CEO of the Independent Meeting Planners Association (IMPA) back in the 80’s in the United States, continues to advocate for the Caribbean, the importance of focusing our efforts on the corporate…
OCG responds to Opposition Spokesman, Karl Samuda’s concerns
OCG responds to Opposition Spokesman, Karl Samuda’s concerns regarding the OCG’s involvement in the impending divestment of the Norman Manley International Airport Kingston; February 19, 2013 – The Office of the Contractor General (OCG) has taken note of the concerns…
7 Old Wives’ Tales That are Totally Real
Katie Waldeck Care2 If you step on a crack, odds are, you won’t break your mama’s back. Yep, there are plenty of old wives’ tales out there that have long been debunked by science — your body really doesn’t take…
