Caribbean Fisheries Forum to hold 11th annual meeting in Barbados
Heads of national fisheries authorities from the seventeen member states and observers of the Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM) will attend the 11th Meeting of the Caribbean Fisheries Forum from Wednesday, April 24 to Friday, April 26, 2013, at Accra…
XXVIII CONCACAF Ordinary Congress Takes Another Important Step in Transparent Governance
Detailed Independent Integrity Report Findings Unveiled PANAMA CITY, Panama (Friday, April 19, 2013) – The Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) held today its XXVIII Ordinary Congress in Panama City, Panama. The seven-hour congress was marked…
Minnesota hospital apologizes for misplacing body of stillborn infant in the laundry
By Mary Beth Quirk Consumerist A Minnesota hospital has the weighty task today of explaining, and subsequently apologizing, as to how the body of a stillborn infant went missing from the morgue, only to show up at a laundry service…
Why Do Men Cheat?
by Russell Smith, inspiyr Understanding the Reasons for Infidelity Can Help Prevent It In our society, men have the rather unfortunate label of being “the cheater.” And although there are exceptions to this notion, it’s a stigma that is still…
Why did 1MDB put RM7bn bond redemption in Cayman Islands outfit?
Posted by Anil Netto, anilnetto.com Some serious questions are being raised about the proceeds of 1MDB’s RM7bn bond redemption, arising from the disposal of its investment in a joint venture with Petro Saudi International (PSI). 1MDB had disposed of its…
Dunbar McFarlane retires from ‘The National’
From Go-Jamaica Dunbar McFarlane, general manager of the National Building Society of Cayman (NBSC), has retired from the position he has served for more than eight years. He was appointed general manager of the Society in 2004 following the passage…
Cayman climber, Guy Manning at Everest base camp
The following are blogs from Guy Manning, a partner at Campbells law firm in Grand Cayman, who set off from Cayman to Kathmandu in Nepal at the end of March, 2013 to begin a two-month expedition with team mates. They…
New Venezuela President Sworn in, but Officials Will Audit Vote
By WILLIAM NEUMAN, New York Times CARACAS, Venezuela — In the carnival-mirror world of Venezuelan politics, Nicolás Maduro was sworn in as president on Friday, just hours after election officials agreed to carry out a partial recount of the vote…
Is good music as exciting as good sex?
By Diana Vilibert, Care2 Discovering a new favorite song is a great feeling…but is it as good as sex? Scientists at McGill University in Montreal think you may not be exaggerating when you describe the new Rihanna single as “orgasmic”—in…
Peltz’s Pepsi-Mondelez stakes raise speculation of merger
By Matt Townsend and Duane D. Stanford, Bloomberg Nelson Peltz’s Trian Fund Management LP disclosed stakes in PepsiCo Inc. (PEP) and Mondelez International Inc. (MDLZ), increasing speculation that he’ll push for a merger of the food makers. Trian said in…
