Child actors’ class action reinstated against BofA
By Amanda Bronstad, From The National Law Journal A California appeals court has reinstated a class action filed on behalf of thousands of child actors and other young performers alleging Bank of America Corp. illegally charged monthly fees on trust…
CARICOM committed to customs harmonisation
Georgetown, Guyana – April 30, 2015: Customs officials, legal experts and CARICOM representatives closed their final meeting in Guyana in agreement on the way forward for the finalisation of the regulations to support harmonised customs legislation for the region. Over…
Ice Palace to break ground in Cayman Islands
Canadian based company, Hard Set Sports and Entertainment is pleased to confirm that a ground breaking date will be announced in the next thirty days for the Cayman Ice Palace project, a world class entertainment facility that will be located…
Youth, unemployment and selling citizenship
By Sir Ronald Sanders From Caribbean360 BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Friday May 1, 2015 – The economies of Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries are not doing well. Belize, Guyana and Suriname are the only three countries whose economies are showing any appreciable growth….
IDB holds Regional policy dialogue on science technology and innovation
From The Dominican Bridgetown, Barbados (TDN) The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) will host a regional policy dialogue on science, technology and innovation on April 29, 2015 in Bridgetown, Barbados. The focus of this dialogue is: Rethinking Productive Development Policies for…
Ford expands door latch recall to include 156,000 additional Fiesta, Fusion & Lincoln vehicles
By Ashlee Kieler From Consumerist Less than a week after Ford finally issued a recall for nearly 400,000 vehicles that may contain malfunctioning door latches, the car manufacturer is adding another 156,000 of the same vehicles to the recall roster….
Second Caribbean government taken out by voters
By Bert Wilkinson From New York Amsterdam News In all this year, six general elections are to be held in the 15-nation Caribbean trade bloc, and if internal and other polls hold true, four of these are expected to yield…
PC Adam Rushton is jailed for sexual misconduct
From BBC A police officer who had sex with vulnerable women while on duty has been jailed for three years. PC Adam Rushton, 37, who was branded “a disgrace to the police service”, was sentenced at Birmingham Crown Court for…
The British economy looks like it’s hitting a wall — and the next government will have to deal with it
By Mike Bird From Business Insider Two slightly worrying figures about the UK economy were published this week. First, the GDP estimate for the first quarter of 2015 was a huge miss in comparison to forecasts. Economists had expected a…