China will cast a huge shadow as Japan meets CARICOM
By Sir Ronald Sanders BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Thursday July 2014 – The word will not be spoken in any formal speeches and it won’t be mentioned in final statements and declarations, but it will be talked about in the corridors and…
Trinidad journalist Bassant returns home despite death threats
From Caribbean360 Mark-BassantVIENNA, Austria, Thursday July 24, 2014, CMC – Investigative journalist Mark Bassant of Trinidad and Tobago has returned to home despite the continued existence of a threat against his life. Bassant told the International Press Institute (IPI) that…
Barclays Moves to Dismiss AG’s Suit Over ‘Dark Pools’
By Suevon Lee, New York Law Journal Barclays is challenging the authority of New York’s top lawyer to sue the bank for fraud over allegedly deceptive statements it made to investors concerning high frequency trading in its “dark pool,” or…
Herbalife: A look ahead to the company’s second quarter earnings/see 2nd 1/4 results
EDITOR: See following story – “Herbalife second-quarter profit drops 17 percent, misses estimate” By Heather Ingrassia From Seeking Alpha Disclosure: The author has no positions in any stocks mentioned, and no plans to initiate any positions within the next 72…
Stronger minimum wage elusive in Caribbean – ECLAC forum told
From Guyana Times Work is the master key for advancing towards greater equality in Latin American and Caribbean countries, Deputy Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Antonio Prado said last week at an…
U.S. Coast Guard interdicts 3,591 pounds of marijuana in the Caribbean Sea
From Maritime Security The Coast Guard seized more than 3,500 pounds of marijuana with an estimated wholesale value of $3.5 million and detained five suspected smugglers during a drug interdiction in the Caribbean Sea, southwest of Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico….
Sandals to give Barbados foreign exchange boost with US$53m hotel purchase
From Caribbean360 BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Sunday July 27, 2014, CMC – Jamaican hotelier, Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart’s, Sandals Group will within a few days purchase a Barbados flagship tourism property, Almond Beach Village, for US$53 million. Reporting on the matter, the Sunday…
Why some Caribbean authors are accusing Trinidad-born novelist Monique Roffey of being a ‘latter day Columbus’
From Global Voices Author Monique Roffey takes a walk around literary Clerkenwell as part of the Free Word Centre’s ‘FLOW’ Festival. Photo by Robert Sharp / English PEN, used under a CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 license. Trinidad-born, Britain-based writer Monique Roffey…
ISIS targeting Christians ‘for extinction’
From Newsmax Republican Congressman Frank Wolf gave a passionate speech on the House floor on Tuesday accusing the militant jihadist group ISIS of genocide for “systematically targeting Christians and other religious minorities in Iraq for extinction.” “I believe that what…
Three men get prison sentences for armed robbery of courier
Manuel Ramirez Carter, Brandon Liberal and John Phillip Cohen-Ebanks all received prison sentences from Justice Charles Quin last Wednesday (23) at Cayman Islands Grand Court in George Town. A fourth man was deemed unfit to plead. All four men had…
