A Decade on, Hurricane Katrina Continues To Provide Legal Operations Lessons For Today
By Ed Silverstein, From Legaltech News Now, with advances in technology, if an event like Katrina hit, many of the tech issues back then likely would not arise today, attorneys said. It has been ten years since Hurricane Katrina hit…
Rising tide of Bahamas crime triggers new UK and Canada travel advisories
By Caribbean360 From The Daily Herald NASSAU, Bahamas–Against the backdrop of escalating crime in The Bahamas, the Governments of Britain and Canada have issued new advisories to their citizens about the increase in armed, sometimes fatal crimes in New Providence…
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Tropical storm Erika: Dominica declares disaster and seeks aid
From The Guardian UK Flooding and landslides kill at least 20 people and leave more than 50 missing on Caribbean island Rescue teams worked to reopen roads to remote communities in Dominica on Sunday after tropical storm Erika caused flooding…
Lawyers weighing when social media contact violates PFA
By Ben Seal, From The Legal Intelligencer No contact means no contact in the case of a protection-from-abuse order, including contact made in the legally unsettled land of social media, lawyers say. Lawyers familiar with social media issues said that…
New online portal revolutionizes public access to legal services and information in the English speaking Caribbean.
A new website aimed at changing the way the lawyers and the general public access legal information and services, launches in the Caribbean today (Tuesday Sept 1 2015). WESTINDIANLAWYERS.com is an online portal servicing 18 jurisdictions in the English speaking…
Judge to decide the fate of ‘Deflategate’
By Mark Hamblett, From New York Law Journal The NFL’s “Deflategate” dispute is now in the hands of a federal judge after a final round of negotiations failed to produce a compromise between New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and…
The Cayman Islands: Tourism paradise or economic hell
By Cameron Lee From The Market Mogul The Cayman Islands are somewhat a tourism paradise. There are crystal blue waters and golden beaches, but the fate of the economy is often overlooked. For years the country has been sustaining itself…
JetBlue eyes future Guyana market
By Ray Chickrie from Caribbean News Now NEW YORK, USA — The Guyanese public has been using Facebook and other social media outlets to lobby JetBlue to enter the Guyana market especially, since JetBlue commenced services to Trinidad, airfares from…
jellyfish are invading the UK
Swarms of nightmarishly huge jellyfish are invading the UK By Sam Haysom From Mashable LONDON – We don’t want to cause a national panic or anything, but it seems that more and more horrendously large jellyfish are setting up shop…
What will it take for fashion to embrace plus-size women?
By Hayley Wilbur From Mashable The only plus-size models shown in any major September fashion mags were in ads. The Huffington Post recently dug through seven September issues of the biggest fashion publications: (Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, W, Elle, Marie Claire,…
