Mental health in the Caribbean: The silent epidemic?
By Rebecca Theodore From Caribbean News Now Beyond the economic and political blockades experienced by small-island states, lies a silent epidemic called mental health. It is a cursed and shameful disease marked by poverty and stigma. Mental illness is now…
Cayman Islands: Multiple burglars arrested in West Bay
From RCIPS Police arrest suspects after responding to two separate reports of residential burglaries yesterday in West Bay. The first report was received by 911 around 1pm where a residence was burgled and computer equipment stolen in North West Point….
Cayman Islands Attorney General issues update on Mutual Evaluation Preparations
The Attorney General’s Chambers today (Wednesday, 26 April 2017) released findings from the Cayman Islands first National Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Risk Assessment (NRA). The main results of the assessment were released to the financial industry just ahead of…
Federal Court bans investment fund managers for 10 years [linked to1MDB]
From The Australian By BEN BUTLER Business reporter Melbourne AMANDA HODGE South East Asia Two Gold Coast men involved in a funds management business linked to Malaysia’s 1MDB scandal are to be banned from corporate life for a decade over…
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Fifa: French probe 2018 & 2022 World Cup bids
From BBC French prosecutors are investigating the bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups and have questioned former Fifa president Sepp Blatter. France’s National Public Prosecutor’s Office began examining the bid to award the tournaments, to Russia and…
Le Pen’s National Front ‘took 5m euros from EU’
From BBC The far-right National Front (FN) of French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen may have defrauded the European Parliament of about €5m (£4m; $5.4m), EU sources say. It is more than twice the sum initially estimated in an inquiry…
Judges secure Cayman Island jobs
By Owain Johnston-Barnes From Royal Gazette Three Bermudian Supreme Court judges are now eligible to sit part-time in the Cayman Islands. Chief Justice Ian Kawaley has been appointed as a judge of the Grand Court Financial Services Division, and Puisne…
US: An Uber engineer’s suicide is yet another reminder of the company’s terrible culture
BY JACK MORSE From Mashable Uber is in the limelight again for another employee horror story after one of its engineers died by suicide. The employee’s family alleges that workplace stress and racism contributed to a decline in mental health…
Dutch Caribbean Islands and Suriname meet to discuss mechanisms for international cooperation mechanisms under the 2003 Convention
From UNESCO From 3 to 7 April 2017, representatives from Suriname and the Dutch Caribbean islands of Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, Sint Eustatius and Sint Maarten met in Kralendijk, Bonaire, to take part in a workshop entitled ‘Mechanisms for International…
Cartoon of the Week
By Tony Zuvela, Cartoonist “It’s my own little World which I can escape to everyday and create a fun, weird, berserk Cartoon to whatever subject I like. I enjoy doing all the work myself, and all the aspects of Cartooning,…
