T&T: Lessons for Kamla
By Capil Bissoon From Caribbean News Now The UNC’s internal election is finished and the preliminary results show a major landslide for incumbent political leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar. Figures show just how popular she remains within the party. The last preliminary…
Jamaican Ambassador to Chair UN Small Arms Meeting
From South Florida Caribbean News Jamaican Ambassador, E. Courtenay Rattray to Chair Small Arms Meeting WASHINGTON, DC – Jamaican Ambassador, E. Courtenay Rattray, Jamaica’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, was elected as Chairman of the United Nations Programme of…
Olwomen story of week
7 Most Amazing Levity Shoes By Jazlyn Hunt From Olwomen With Levity shoes, your feet display style and elegance combined. Levity offers you the most sophisticated and stylish shoe designs you can ever get from one center. All sorts of…
Baroness Scotland denies she was not a Caribbean candidate
By TDN Wire Staff Port-of-Spain, Trinidad (TDN) Baroness Patricia Scotland has strenuously denied that she was a “British sponsored candidate” for the post of Commonwealth Secretary General. She was responding to recent press reports, which quoted Antigua prime minister Gaston…
OUR CARIBBEAN: PM Gonsalves on another victory road
By Rickey Singh, From Nation News TODAY [Wed 9], as voters of St Vincent and the Grenadines trek to polling booths to choose a new government in Kingstown, there remain sharply contrasting predictions on the official outcome expected by midnight….
Volkswagen MDL Lands in California’s Northern District
By Amanda Bronstad, from The National Law Journal A federal judicial panel has picked U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer in California’s Northern District to handle the litigation against Volkswagen A.G. over its emissions scandal. The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict…
What will it take to run legal departments of the future?
By Shahzad Bashir, From Corporate Counsel Since the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009, law departments have had to deal with the “new normal.” Previously, despite some lip service to the contrary, law departments had been able to insulate themselves…
Islamic finance can drive Suriname’s private sector
By Ray Chickrie From Caribbean News Now PARAMARIBO, Suriname — Suriname which is seeking to be the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leader in Islamic finance, took a major step in making this goal a reality on Friday, when visiting CEO of…
Cayman Islands issues self-certification templates and participating jurisdiction list
From FTSE Global Markets Wednesday, 09 December 2015 The Cayman Islands Ministry of Financial Services’ Department for International Tax Cooperation (DITC) on 8 December 2015 issued an industry advisory regarding the ongoing implementation of the Common Reporting Standard (CRS) in…
Big US wireless companies target of whistleblower suit
By Marisa Kendall, From The Recorder A newly-unsealed lawsuit in Sacramento County accuses some of the nation’s biggest wireless service providers of defrauding the state of California by charging for services they didn’t provide. The suit accuses Verizon Wireless, Sprint…