Jamaica wins award for US$2B bond
By Gladstone Taylor From Jamaica Gleaner The magazine International Financing Review (IFR) has given Jamaica one of its 2015 awards for the US$2 billion bond offer. Here is the magazine’s take on the issue. Troubles in Latin America provided opportunities…
Health care collaborations among competitors: minimizing antitrust risks
By Scott P. Perlman, From Corporate Counsel In the past five years since the adoption of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the health care industry has experienced an unprecedented wave of consolidation and collaboration. While much of the attention has…
Syria: Where have all the birds gone?
By Peter Polack A frequent interval to the gunfire explosions in the many Syrian war videos available on the internet is the occasional silence and interruption of a swooning flight of birds. Houses, streets, towns and cities have been irretrievably…
Knight-funded performance fuses classical Indian dance and Afro-Caribbean poetry
By Marcia Cancio-Bello From Knight Blog Marci Cancio-Bello is a program coordinator at the Miami Book Fair International. When someone outside of Florida mentions Miami, most people think of sunny beaches, palm trees, retirement and perhaps Cuba. But for those…
Details of cocaine bust near Dominican coast revealed
By Alfonso Chardy From Miami Herald Maritime Patrol Aircraft first spotted go-fast boat with cocaine U.S. Coast Guard later boarded the boat off Dominican Republic Four individuals and 22 bales of cocaine seized After the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Bernard…
Report: Four big firms earned millions from suspect states
By Nell Gluckman, From The Am Law Daily Four Am Law 100 firms appear on a list compiled by the Center for Public Integrity ranking professional services firms on the basis of how much money they receive from governments that…
Rothschild agrees to pay $45.4 million to end U.S. tax probe
By David Voreacos From Bloomberg Business Edmond de Rothschild (Suisse) SA and a related unit agreed to pay $45.4 million to avoid prosecution for helping U.S. clients evade taxes. Rothschild is the 68th Swiss bank to reach an accord with…
Bajan at Hart of climate talks
By TONY BEST, From Barbados Nation News Immediately after the global climate change pact became a done deal in Paris, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon turned to his trusted top climate change adviser and asked: “what about 1.5.”? Selwin Hart,…
These playing cards can take a bullet
From Techcrunch Playing cards, just like anything else, are ripe for disruption. I’ve purchased cards in airports, a CVS and the supermarket…but never online. That might change because of this Kickstarter. This is the biggest news since the Kevlar Pocket…
Ericsson and Apple sign global patent license agreement, settle litigation
Agreement includes a global cross license for patented standard-essential technologies and grants certain other patent rights. The settlement ends all ongoing patent-infringement claims between the parties. The terms of the agreement are confidential. Companies will collaborate in multiple technology areas,…