Court Greenlights Massive Class Action Against South African Mines
By Julie Triedman, From Global Lawyer News In a historic class action decision spearheaded by U.S. plaintiffs firms Hausfeld LLP and Motley Rice and their South African counsel, a court in Johannesburg on Friday greenlighted a four-year-old class action against…
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Tanker grounding in environmentally sensitive area of Colombian Caribbean
By Tony Fielder From UK P&I Club Early interaction with authorities pays long term dividends in defeating class actions brought by tourism and fishing Lobby Groups. The 2005 case reported below is one the many such instances where early use of…
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Comparative analysis reveals use patterns of deeper Caribbean coral reefs by shark species
From Science Daily Group spawning may drive predator habitat use for lemon sharks, may inform fisheries management Source: PLOS Summary: Three species of shark, tiger, lemon and Caribbean reef, all use deeper coral reefs in the Virgin Islands, but only…
MFSA Warns that Alpha Capital Markets is Unauthorised in Malta
By Rosemary Barnes From Finance Magnates The company has allegedly been misleading investors by pretending to be regulated. Malta’s financial markets watchdog, the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA), today issued a warning against forex broker Alpha Capital Markets (Alphacmarkets). The…
The Caribbean has an air tax problem
By George Nicholson Op-Ed Contributor From Caribbean Journal The regional airline industry has been characterised by a high degree of commercial difficulties. The last three decades has seen the Caribbean airspace littered with the remains of more than thirty carriers…
Humanoid robot diver
Stanford’s humanoid robot diver explores its first shipwreck By Andrew Dalton From engadget Behold: the dawn of the merbot. A group of underwater archaeologists exploring the sunken remains of King Louis XIV’s flagship La Lune added a very special member…
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10 Caribbean Nations where U.S. Nationals will pay less for health care
By NAN Staff Writer From News America Now News Americas, NEW YORK, NY, Fri. April 29, 2016: If these Caribbean nations were your home instead of the United States, you will be paying a whole lot less for health care….
SEC awards whistleblower $3.5 million for help in ongoing investigation
By C. Ryan Barber, From The National Law Journal Before being awarded more than $3.5 million on Friday, the latest tipster to benefit from the Securities and Exchange Commission’s whistleblower program was rebuffed. In January, the agency officials denied the…
Tourism Matters: We are missing invaluable data about visitors
By Adrian Loveridge From Caribbean News Now I still find it remarkable that, after so many years, such an exceptional property like Villa Nova remains unsold and empty. Yes of course it has its geographical challenges competing with what is…
Sanderson Farms, Inc. responds to recent allegations against poultry industry
LAUREL, Miss. (May 16, 2016) – Sanderson Farms, Inc. (NASDAQ: SAFM) today issued the following statement in response to recent allegations against the poultry industry regarding the treatment of processing line employees by OxFam America in its report entitled “No…
