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Specialist officers seconded to help improve Cayman Islands border, maritime security
From Cayman Islands Governor’s Office The Governor’s Office and Office of the Premier have announced that senior officers from the UK’s Border Force and Maritime and Coastguard Agency are being seconded to the Cayman Islands to oversee changes in the…
Cayman Islands: 2017 CUC PFL Champions crowned amidst torrential rains
CUC PFL Final and Third-Place Review Champions crowned amidst torrential rains It was a record-setting day of final and third-place games in the 2017 CUC Primary Football league (PFL) and Girls’ Primary Football League (GPFL), which took place this past…
Heaviest snowfall in Britain in 4 years, travellers in northern Europe stranded
Agence France-Presse, London From hindustantimes Some 330 flights were cancelled by 5:00 pm (1600 GMT) after heavy snow and sub-zero temperatures struck the region around Frankfurt in Germany. The heaviest snowfall in four years in Britain caused travel mayhem on…
Days after Golden Krust CEO commits suicide, workers seek class action lawsuit over wages
By Angela Helm From The Root Less than a week after Golden Krust CEO Lowell Hawthorne shot and killed himself in his Bronx factory, the Caribbean bakery and restaurant chain was hit with a wage lawsuit brought by two former…
The Editor Speaks: Human rights
Human Rights Day passed with hardly a whimper last Sunday (10). There were no Ministerial messages to remind us how important the day is here in the Cayman Islands. This is probably because we live in a country where human…
Barbados joins Regional Initiative- Latin and America and the Caribbean Free of Child Labour against Child Labour
Barbados is the ninth CARICOM country to join the Regional Initiative, Latin and America and the Caribbean Free of Child Labour. Honourable Esther Byer-Suckoo, Minister of Labour, Social Security and Human Resource Development symbolically handed over the signed agreement to…
Experimental stem cell treatments
By Dr Derrick Aarons From Jamaica Observer Several stem cell clinics have opened their doors in our Caribbean countries over the past few years. However, the injecting of stem cells into the human body is not only relatively new, but…
The View from Europe: taxation, economic globalization and the Caribbean
BY DAVID JESSOP From Barbados Advocate No one likes to pay taxes. Despite this, there is widespread recognition that their imposition is necessary if citizens are to be provided with social services such as education, health care and pensions. For…
CARICOM-Cuba Summit agrees to stronger development, trade and economic cooperation
From CARICOM Stronger cooperation in disaster risk management and in climate change adaptation and mitigation is among the major decisions of the Sixth CARICOM-Cuba Summit, held in Antigua and Barbuda on Friday 8 December 2017. Strengthening ties on this very…
ACP condemns Europe over new tax haven list
CMC From Nation News BRUSSELS – The African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group has “strongly condemned” the “unilateral and discriminatory practices” of the European Union in the publication of a list of non-cooperative tax jurisdictions. A statement following the 106th…
