Caribbean dream is a true born survivor
By Richard Wright GARDENING I’m grateful to Don Prescott for highlighting a star of a plant, which does especially well down his southern Wight neck of the woods but will survive almost anywhere. It is one of the vast agave…
Overlooked among 50 million displaced worldwide, women and girls lose out
By Andrea Ó Súilleabháin From IPI Mass displacement has become a significant feature of recent conflicts, as the number of people forced to flee their homes has passed 50 million worldwide, a level not seen since World War II. This…
New commodity ETF reveals tax loophole
By Shelley Goldberg, Commodity Strategist From Wall Street Daily Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are still hot investments. It seems a new ETF pops up almost daily. The total number of ETFs offered by the end of 2013 reached 1,294 and represented…
Cartoon of the Day
By Tony Zuvela, Cartoonist “It’s my own little World which I can escape to everyday and create a fun, weird, berserk Cartoon to whatever subject I like. I enjoy doing all the work myself, and all the aspects of Cartooning,…
Children too often treated as ‘small adults’ by police
From BBC Children and young people have a “profound lack of trust” in the police, bordering on fear in some cases, a report by MPs and peers has suggested. Children are often treated as “small adults”, with their specific needs…
Tribute to Olympic Gold winners Sir Durward and Cecil Cooke
From Bahama Islands Info NASSAU, The Bahamas — It was 50 years ago…in Tokyo…when Sir Durward “Seawolf” Knowles and the late Cecil Cooke won Olympic Gold — representing a first for The Bahamas. They won the Star Class Sailing in…
Cayman law amended to facilitate the grant of interim relief in aid of foreign proceedings
From Harneys In modern litigation there is often a strong possibility that obtaining interim relief from the court of the jurisdiction in which you are suing your opponent will not fully protect you against the dissipation by him of assets…
Global Data-Sharing Accord Expands Push to Find Tax Cheat
By Patrick Donahue and Rainer Buergin From Bloomberg News Governments around the world closed in on tax evaders with an automatic data-sharing accord that broadens efforts by the U.S. and the five biggest European Union economies to more than 50…
Core77 Photo Gallery: Vienna Design Week 2014
Photography by Sam Dunne for Core77 Vienna Design Week returned for the eighth successive year, this year setting up shop in the grand Schwarzenberg Palace in the heart of the city. Apart from being blown away (as always) by the…
Compulsory winding up petitions in the Cayman Islands fall by 31%
Petition Filings Snapshot – Interim Report Q3 2014 Compulsory winding up petition filings offshore fell, on average, by 31% in the first three quarters of 2014 says latest Appleby report The latest compulsory winding up petition data, published in our…
