airbnb and Caribbean Tourism – EQUALISER, DESTABILIZER or PARTNER?
From The Voice BEYOND the impact of the Zika virus, the opening of Cuba to U.S. travellers and the warnings of an economic slowdown by the International Monetary Fund and others, the Caribbean faces in Airbnb, a phenomena that poses…
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‘Panama Papers’ to be analyzed at OffshoreAlert Conference
The head of the organization that co-ordinated the biggest records leak in financial history – known as ‘The Panama Papers’ – will talk about the project at next month’s OffshoreAlert Conference in Miami Beach. Gerard Ryle, of the International Consortium…
Advancing environmental governance in Latin America and the Caribbean
In less than 24 hours negotiators from 20 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) will gather in Montevideo, Uruguay for the 3rd Meeting of the Negotiating Committee of the Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Participation and Justice…
Cayman Islands: Man charged with burglary of West Bay Restaurant
From RCIPS: Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 9:49 AM West Bay officers responded to a report of a burglary on the morning of 22 March, when an employee of Super C’s Restaurant on Watercourse Road arrived to work to discover the…
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UK: Corbyn ‘hopelessly misinformed’ about tax havens – Tony Travers replies From BBC IMAGE: Getty Images [Labour Party Leadrer] Jeremy Corbyn earlier said the UK should consider imposing direct orders in crown territories including the Cayman Islands to make sure…
Cayman Islands continues to advance key financial services initiative
With the benefit of continued local and international engagement with industry, and with international regulatory bodies; as well as specific discussions with the UK, the Cayman Islands continues to enhance its system of sharing beneficial ownership information, in order to…
Campbells announces six new partners in Cayman and Hong Kong
From Campbells Leading offshore law firm Campbells is pleased to announce the appointment of six partners in its Cayman Islands and Hong Kong offices. Marianne Rajic will join Campbells’ Hong Kong office as a partner later this month. Marianne was…
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Tourism Matters: Tourism is mostly about people
By Adrian Loveridge While I would not dream of depriving any ‘worker’ of their fundamental right to withdraw their labour, in the interest of humanity one has to question the timing. Tourism is mostly about people and how the various…
Panama papers: UK tax havens ‘should face direct rule’
From BBC The government should consider imposing “direct rule” on British overseas territories and dependencies if they do not comply with UK tax law, Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has said. A huge data leak from Panama-based Mossack Fonseca showed…
Negative interest rates are costing European banks a ton of money
By Rupert Hargreaves, ValueWalk From Business Insider How much will the ECB’s new negative interest rate policy cost the euro area banks? That’s the question Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s European Banks Strategy research team set out to answer in…
