IEyeNews

iLocal News Archives

Month: May 2013

Editors Choice iBusiness iCommunity iCrime iLocal News News

Former MLA and founding UDP member found guilty of theft

Lyndon Leathan Martin (42), was found guilty of stealing $926 from the Parent Teachers Association (PTA) of the Creek and Spot Bay Primary School at a fundraising food sale in 2011. In Summary Court on Cayman Brac, Martin was found…

iBusiness iLocal News iWorld News News

Why US companies are drooling over Israel’s amazing startup scene

Julie Bort, provided by Business Insider from San Francisco Chronicle U.S. companies and investors are falling over themselves to get a piece of Israel’s startup action these days. There are at least two dozen accelerator programs in the Tel Aviv…

iBusiness iLocal News iWorld News News

David Cameron urges EU crackdown on tax evasion

By Bruno Waterfield, Brussels From UK Daily Telegraph David Cameron has written to European Union leaders demanding measures to tackle “staggering” levels of tax evasion that are damaging the revenues of governments at time of economic recession. In the letter,…

iBusiness iLocal News iWorld News News

3SBio Inc. announces Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders

SHENYANG, China, May 2, 2013 — /PRNewswire/ — 3SBio Inc. (NASDAQ: SSRX) (“3SBio” or the “Company”), a leading China-based biotechnology company focused on researching, developing, manufacturing, and marketing biopharmaceutical products, today announced that its extraordinary general meeting of shareholders (the…

Editorial Editors Choice iOpinion Our Eye

The Editor Speaks: Accidents do happen and stop vandalizing/stealing election posters

It is extremely unfortunate that an elector was accidentally struck off from the register of voters. Mistakes do happen and it always pays to check. The Elections Office admitted it was a mistake on the part of its staff.  However,…

iLocal News iWorld News News

Documentary: Former POW living in remote Vietnam village

By Lisa Barron, newsmax A new documentary suggests that a former U.S. Army veteran is alive and living in a remote village in Vietnam more than four decades after he was shot down and presumed dead. According to “Unclaimed,” a…

iBusiness iLocal News iWorld News News

New York ruling helps ComputerLand founder fend off tax collector

By Karen Freifeld NEW YORK (Reuters) – Tech mogul William Millard may have escaped the tax man once again. Millard, who built ComputerLand Corp into a retail giant in the 1970s and 1980s, is wanted by the Northern Mariana Islands…

iBusiness iCommunity iLocal News News

SteppingStones win Top Employer award

Recruitment specialists SteppingStones were recently awarded one of the most coveted accolades within Cayman’s business community – the Top Employer Award for 2013 in the small/medium employer category. This is the company’s second time to be shortlisted as a finalist…

iArt iCommunity iLocal News News

Art of Assemblage Exhibition opens on Friday (10)

The National Gallery of the Cayman Islands (NGCI) have announced the “Art of Assemblage” Exhibition to commence at The National Gallery, Esterly Tibbetts Highway, Grand Cayman from Friday, May 10th until July 26th 2013. “Art of Assemblage” will be showing…