Inversions are often last stop for companies avoiding U.S. taxes
From Reading Eagle The Associated Press (c) 2014, Bloomberg News. NEW YORK — The surge in U.S. companies avoiding taxes by taking a foreign address has been condemned by President Barack Obama and stirred a policy debate in Congress. What’s…
Immigration policy supports property investors in Cayman Islands
At the State of the Nation luncheon on 9th October 2014, Premier Hon. Alden McLaughlin confirmed that a new immigration policy directive has been approved by Cabinet. Councillor Joey Hew confirmed this week that this new directive is in the…
Kudos to Cayman Islands MRCU
Minister for Health Hon. Osbourne V. Bodden, JP and Deputy Governor Franz Manderson paid a special visit to the staff of Mosquito Research & Control Unit (MRCU) last Friday, 5th December, 2014. During the tour the visitors praised staff for…
TO2015 Young Reporters Programme [available in Cayman Islands]
Overview The TO2015 Young Reporters Program is a sport management and journalism training program that will be held during the TORONTO 2015 Pan Am Games. The programme will run from July 9 to 20, 2015, with young reporters arriving…
Maryland nonprofits investing in offshore accounts [Cayman Islands]
By Doug Donovan, From The Baltimore Sun When the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, the Johns Hopkins University and other Maryland nonprofits want to maximize the money they can spend in pursuit of their missions, they do what many wealthy individuals and…
Cayman Islands launches Household Budget Survey
Press Briefing Remarks By Hon. Marco Archer, JP Minister for Finance and Economic Development Introduction Today, the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development is launching the publicity campaign for the Household Budget Survey 2015 (HBS 2015). Next to a housing…
Is your horse ‘Long in the Tooth’? Equine specialist arriving in Cayman Islands
The Cayman Islands Equestrian Federation (the “CIEF”) is bringing an equine specialist to the island in January to ‘float’ or file the teeth of any horses requiring it. Whether your horse is a Cayman pony or an overseas sport horse,…
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How a stronger US dollar and lower oil prices affects the Caribbean
By Ronald Sanders From Caribbean360 BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Friday December 12, 2014 – Caribbean countries whose value is fixed to the US dollar should benefit, at least in the short term, from the fall in oil prices and the strengthening of…
Bad things happen in the dark [See Editor’s Note –this story mirrors Cayman Islands]
By Dante Alighieri Disparte From International Policy Digest Home to around 42 million people and 28 island nations and territories; the Caribbean has a hard time competing for resources on the global stage. Yet, this region of the world is…
Private jets are bringing billions of dollars to the Caribbean [and Cayman Islands]
By Doug Gollan From Linkedin On the same day Unity Marketing issued its newest report that “(Mass) Affluents (under $400,000 household income) have new attitudes about their (limited) wealth and spending which translates into affluent austerity” private jet charter operator…
