U.S Patent Office cancels Redskins’ ‘Disparaging’ trademark
By Adam K. Raymond From New York Magazine Eight years after a group of Native Americans filed a lawsuit seeking to repeal the Washington Redskins trademark, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has done just that. The team’s name, the…
Pay with Bitcoin: 10 of the most interesting places to spend it
By Lyndsey Gilpin From Tech Republic Bitcoin continues to gain popularity as a digital currency, but what businesses actually accept them? Here are 10 prominent online and brick-and-mortar retailers. It still takes some searching to find places to spend your…
Oldest Nazi yet, an 89-year-old accused Auschwitz guard, arrested in U.S.
By Joe Coscarelli From NY Magazine Johann Breyer, an 89-year-old immigrant originally from Czechoslovakia, appeared in Philadelphia court today on charges that he worked as a Nazi SS guard at Auschwitz and Buchenwald during World War II. The New York…
Cartoon of the Day
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,…
Steady Caribbean tourism growth driving dining, hotel and resort players
Jun 19, 2014 (ACCESSWIRE via COMTEX) — WHITEFISH, MT The Caribbean is the number one destination in the global cruise sector, with 37.3% of capacity this year, a figure which continues to be dominated largely by passengers from the U.S….
Seagate Technology announces successful completion of cash tender offers for outstanding 7.000% senior notes due 2021 and 6.875% senior notes due 2020
CUPERTINO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–June 18, 2014– Seagate Technology plc (NASDAQ: STX) gave notice of the completion of the cash tender offers by its wholly owned subsidiary, Seagate HDD Cayman (“HDD Cayman”), previously announced on May 20, 2014 (the “Tender Offers”), to…
Former Dep Chair of Housing Trust found guilty
Edlin Myles (62) former Deputy Chairman of the Cayman Islands National Housing and Development Trust (NHDT) board was found guilty on Thursday (19) of seven deception offences. Myles had been accused of conning applicants who had applied to the NHDT into taking…
Margaret Ramsay-Hale appointed first female Chief Justice for the Turks and Caicos Islands
From Turks & Caicos Sun His Excellency the Governor Peter Beckingham has accepted the recommendation of the Judicial Service Commission to appoint Justice Margaret Ramsay-Hale as the next Chief Justice of the Turks and Caicos Islands. Ramsay-Hale was previously appointed…
LIVE EXPLOSION: A mountain top is about to get blown off to make way for a giant telescope
By Leslie Baehr From Business Insider PHOTO: Artist’s rendering of the future telescope which will be the ‘largest eye on the sky.’ On Thursday at 12:30 p.m. ET, the top of Cerro Armazones, a 10,000-foot mountain in northern Chile’s Atacama…
