Caymans to axe expat tax plans
From Morning Star by Rory MacKinnon, Corporate Affairs Reporter Tax-dodgers’ paradise the Cayman Islands buckled to the bankers’ lobby today and scrapped plans to introduce a meagre income tax on wealthy expats. Premier McKeeva Bush said the plan – conceived…
CSX to use XETRA platform
The Cayman Islands Stock Exchange (“CSX”) is pleased to announce that it has signed an agreement with Deutsche Boerse to use its XETRA trading platform, which will go live at the CSX in early 2013. The state of the art…
Cayman Prepared Gets an Overhaul
Hazard Management Cayman Islands (HMCI) has a new website and has added a presence on the social media sites, Facebook and Twitter. The website is still located at www.Caymanprepared.ky<http://www.Caymanprepared.ky>; but the look and feel of the site has been improved…
The Editor Speaks: Should I be insulted?
At Premier McKeeva Bush’s highly anticipated postponed meeting last Wednesday (8) at the Mary Miller Hall to reveal the package of new revenue measures to replace the ‘community enhancement fee’ he had a big swipe at Cayman’s media. In particular…
How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking
By Mat Honan In the space of one hour, my entire digital life was destroyed. First my Google account was taken over, then deleted. Next my Twitter account was compromised, and used as a platform to broadcast racist and homophobic…
Future Fund’s $20bn haven
by: Annabel Hepworth AUSTRALIA’S Future Fund has revealed it has invested more than $20 billion through offshore tax shelters, including the Cayman Islands, warning of lower returns if it does not minimise its tax bill. The $77bn fund for federal…
His Excellency the Governor, Duncan Taylor, CBE Announces Court of Appeal Appointment
His Excellency the Governor, Duncan Taylor, CBE, is pleased to announce the appointment of Sir Richard Ground OBE as Cayman’s newest Court of Appeal Judge. Sir Richard is currently a Judge on the Turks and Caicos Court of Appeal and…
The Editor Speaks: A commendation to the CIHS
You may have noticed that there was no Editorial in yesterday’s (8) iNews Cayman…..? A sigh of relief from our government leaders? The reason was I had a medical emergency, which I am not going into what it was, except…
Scotland wants elite increase
By Ron Shillinford Mark Scotland, Minister of Sports, was at the London Olympics to see the Cayman Islands team perform. The Fraser brothers, Shaune and Brett, did exceptionally well in their swim events reaching semi-finals. On the track, Kemar Hyman…
The Chamber replaces Business Expo with new and improved Cayshop event!
The Chamber of Commerce is launching a new business event called Cayshop. Always looking to improve our events and programmes we have taken a long and hard look at the Business Expo and decided after 20 years it is in…
