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IMF show zero tolerance for zero-rating in Barbados VAT regime
By Patrick Hoyos From Caribbean360 BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Thursday November 6, 2014 – Regaining control of the VAT base is critical in a small open economy such as Barbados that relies heavily on imports, says a new IMF report, and the…
Paul Wedgewood takes Scots cuisine to Caribbean
From Edinburgh Evening News With sun-kissed beaches and blue skies overhead, gently swaying palm trees and crashing surf, chef Paul Wedgwood could hardly have been further from the typically rain-spattered Royal Mile and his busy restaurant. He’d arrived at the…
Martin Luther King Jr.’s Nobel medal, Bible placed in care of court
By David Beasley From Business Insider ATLANTA (Reuters) – Martin Luther King Jr.’s Nobel Peace Prize medal and personal Bible must be moved to a court-controlled safety deposit box, a judge ruledearlier this year as the late civil rights leader’s…
ECCB expresses concern over OECS commercial bank charges
From Caribbean360 BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, Thursday November 6, 2014, CMC – The Monetary Council of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) says action needs to be taken to address commercial bank charges in the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS)….
Device 6 – Storytelling redefined
By Rajavanya Subramaniyan From Beautiful Pixels Every once in a while, somebody makes a game that stands apart from every other game that has been done before in the same genre. And sometimes it gets made so well, that it…
China hands ‘death sentence’ to 75% of solar cell makers
By Toru Sugawara, Nikkei staff writer SHANGHAI — The Chinese government is pushing for a drastic shakeout of the country’s overcrowded solar cell industry, supporting only a quarter of players and practically telling the rest to get out of the…
Bizzare cloud formation appears over Victoria Australia
By Heather Mcnab From Daily Mail Australia The Wongthaggi Rapture: Bizarre cloud formation which looks like a camouflaged spaceship A bizzare cloud formation appeared over Victoria, ringed by a rainbow and giving the appearance of a hole in the sky…
St Kitts has backlog of court cases, too
From SKN Vibes Preliminary Inquiries to be replaced by Sufficiency Hearings Plans to eradicate High Court cases backlog underway BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – A plan to eradicate the heavy backlog of cases to be tried at the High Court level…
F.lux gets updated to work around your personal sleep schedule
By Greg Kumparak From Tech Crunch F.lux! If you haven’t heard of it, be warned: once you get used to f.lux, you’ll probably find yourself annoyed whenever you use a computer that doesn’t have it. The theory behind f.lux: your…
More than one million people in the Americas have been infected by a strange, painful African virus – Chikunguny
From TheBlaze After less than a year in the Americas, an African disease is ravaging Latin America and, as sun-resistant mosquitoes spread the virus to more than one million people, the U.S. remains threatened by the alien affliction. The disease:…
