Comedian Steve Martin sells picturesque Caribbean villa
By Ingrid Fuary-Wagner From Domain Comedian and actor Steve Martin has sold his four-bedroom villa in the Caribbean two years after putting it on the market. The house, perched atop a hill on the island of St Barthelemy, was last listed…
Miami jury awards $2M to Royal Caribbean crew member
By Samantha Joseph, From Daily Business Review A Miami jury awarded nearly $2 million to a former Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. crew member whose kidney failed while working aboard an ill-fated European cruise. Teresa Di Trapani of Canada accused the Miami-based…
JetBlue adds new service from Fort Lauderdale to Barbados
From South Florida Caribbean News FORT LAUDERDALE – JetBlue announced today (Nov. 10th) that its new nonstop service between Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport (FLL) and Barbados’ Grantley Adams International Airport (BGI) is now out for sale. JetBlue will operate once…
Daily ETF Watch: Commodity funds [Cayman Islands] planned
By Heather Bell From ETF Elkhorn Investmfoents, the firm founded by former Invesco PowerShares head Ben Fulton, has filed for two new funds covering the commodity futures space. The Elkhorn S&P GSCI Dynamic Roll Commodity ETF and the Elkhorn RAFI Commodity…
U.S. judge scolds SEC for mistakes in alleged stock fraud case [Cayman Islands bank]
By Suzanne Barlyn From Reuters Nov 10 (Reuters) – A federal judge on Tuesday scolded the top U.S. securities regulator, issuing an opinion that said blunders by the Securities and Exchange Commission triggered the collapse of a Cayman Islands bank and…
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Can the Caribbean dare to be different?
Bridgetown, BARBADOS, November 10, 2015. November 8-14, 2015 officially marks CARICOM Energy Week (CEW), bringing the areas of renewable energy, energy efficiency and sustainable development in to focus under the theme ‘Empowering our Sustainable Development’. The Caribbean boasts a wealth…
Cayman Islands firefighters welcome 12 new colleagues
After undergoing rigorous training for six months, the Fire Service’s newest firefighters received a warm welcome into the service at their graduation at Agape Family Worship Centre recently. The one woman and 11 men were also encouraged to give their…
Pearls and Irritations
John Taylor. Investing in Hedge Funds in Tax Havens: Legal? Ethical? From johnmenadue.com If the aim of Labor’s attack on Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and his wife Lucy for using hedge funds domiciled in the Cayman Islands was to damage his…
New Kimpton Hotel, Margaritaville top Cayman Islands travel news
From Travel Agent Central Earlier this week, Kimpton Hotels introduced Seafire Resort + Spa, Seven Mile Beach, Grand Cayman, as it officially begins its one-year countdown to the official opening in November of next year. Seafire reflects Kimpton’s first new…
Ericsson says Information Technology key to achieving new United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
Joint research between Ericsson and the Earth Institute at Columbia University highlights ICT’s role in accelerating achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 Sergio Quiroga is at the Internet Governance Forum 2015 to emphasize that business-as-usual will…
