Japan Planning to Deepen CARICOM Ties
From Caribbean Journal Japan is planning to strengthen its ties with the Caribbean Community, according to Ambassador Akira Yamada, the director general of Japan’s Foreign Ministry. Yamada, who was speaking at the opening of this week’s Sixteenth CARICOM-Japan Consultation in…
Revolting Style: How London’s Clubbers Got Dressed in the Eighties
By Libby Banks “Dress as though your life depends on it or don’t bother,” Leigh Bowery infamously said of the dress code for his weekly club night, Taboo, just off London’s Leicester Square. Bowery — designer, performance artist, club superstar,…
Show us the money: United find plenty of ways to score
By JACOB SAULWICK, smh.com.au The name Manchester United means David Beckham, Ryan Giggs, and 20 English league championships. It means George Best, three European Cups, the Theatre of Dreams football stadium and 659 million fans worldwide. And it means an…
Windies level series against Pakistan with 37-run win
From Caribbean 360 Pakistan were unable to produce the acceleration they showed in the first match, when they defeated West Indies by 126 runs at the same venue, as the West Indies combined pace and spin attack kept them…
Private sector forms working group to advise on Caricom
From Guardian Media KINGSTON—A broad-based private sector working group has been formed to examine and make recommendations on the Caribbean Community (Caricom) and other free trade agreements. The working group represents members of the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce, the Jamaica…
Bocas winner’s cover goes Underground
By Essiba Small [email protected] …featured in London train stations When Monique Roffey won this year’s One Caribbean Media Prize for Caribbean Literature at the 2013 NGC Bocas Lit Fest, her publisher not only decided to change the cover of the…
Women’s cricket: NZ to tour WI
From Fuseworks Media White Ferns squad to tour West Indies announced The New Zealand White Ferns will head to the Caribbean in October, where they will face the West Indies in three One Day Internationals (ODI), before taking on the…
Moody’s rates Baa1 Banco do Brasil’s proposed Euro-denominated senior
Global Credit Research – 18 Jul 2013 Sao Paulo, July 18, 2013 — Moody’s Investors Service assigned a Baa1 foreign currency debt rating to senior unsecured notes to be issued by Banco do Brasil S.A. through its Grand Cayman Branch…
Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. (NYSE:RCL) has the largest market capitalization in the Russell 3000 Index
by Viraj Shah Wall Street PR Boston, MA 07/18/2013 (wallstreetpr) – It had recently been identified that the stock of Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. (NYSE:RCL) had emerged to be the company with largest market capitalization in the Russell 3000 Index….
Missing Guyanese National : woman in court
Karli Rankin was in the Magistrate’s Court last Monday (15) charged with offences related to the disappearance of 31-year-old Hemerson Gonzalez who was last seen around 5:30pm on 11 December 2012. Gonzalez, a Guyanese national, was staying with Rankin at…
