Cayman Islands Stock Exchange : ASSURED FUND NOTICE OF DELAY IN COMPLETION OF AUDITED ACCOUNTS AS AT 31 DECEMBER 2011
08/14/2012 | 05:36pm US/Eastern Since the last audit the Fund has completed a review of the life expectancies of the portfolio. It has also obtained more up to date policy illustrations. As part of that review it has revised its…
Review: Samsung tablet takes aim at iPad with pen
By Peter Svensson The tablet-computer market is like guerrilla warfare. One huge army – Apple – dominates the land, while a ragtag group of insurgents keeps raiding and probing, hoping to find some opening it can exploit. With Samsung’s new…
Cayman Islands oil and gas exploration company reports “significant growth”
Tethys Petroleum Limited: Second Quarter 2012 Financial Results Another Significant Period of Growth for the Business With Revenues Increased by 93% GRAND CAYMAN, CAYMAN ISLANDS–(Marketwire -08/14/12)-Tethys Petroleum Limited (Cayman Islands) (“Tethys” or “the Company”) today announced its second quarter 2012…
Tobacco giants lose Australian ruling on plain cigarette packaging
by Matthew Chapman Tobacco companies have lost the fight against the introduction of plain cigarette packaging in Australia following a High Court ruling that could have global repercussions. Companies including British American Tobacco (BAT), Philip Morris, Japan Tobacco and Imperial…
Standard Chartered agrees settlement with New York regulator
Standard Chartered has agreed a $340m (£217m) settlement with New York regulators that accused it of hiding $250bn of transactions with Iran. The hearing that had been scheduled for Wednesday has now been adjourned. The bank’s chief executive Peter Sands…
Cayman Islands featured on new presidential campaign video
More free publicity on the Cayman Islands: Dem super-PAC tweaks Romney on ‘Cayman daydream’ By Cameron Joseph A Democratic super-PAC is up with a new video tweaking Mitt Romney on having a “Cayman daydream.” The group, American Bridge, uses footage…
Is Bush correct in his opinion regarding the UK and its relationship with its Overseas Territories?
The Cayman Islands premier, Hon. McKeeva Bush, has blasted out at nearly every public opportunity to show his discontent and anger in his dealings with the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). Faceless bureaucrats is one of his expressions describing…
Even Grand Cayman is wheelchair accessible on a Caribbean Cruise
By Bari Schlesinger, the Assistive Technology Services Coordinator for the California Department of Rehabilitation and a motorized wheelchair user. I hear it all the time. “I can’t travel because I am in wheelchair.” “I can’t go on a cruise.” But…
Highwater expands to New York
George Town, Grand Cayman, 14 August, 2012: HighWater Limited (“HighWater”), a boutique corporate governance services firm based in the Cayman Islands, has expanded with a New York-based Principal. Matt Auriemma, who will be based in New York, joins as a…
Want to Create Jobs? Spend Money. Don’t sock it away in the Cayman Islands
From the No More Mister Nice Blog Rich people don’t create jobs; they take their tax cuts and sock it away in Switzerland and the Cayman Islands. Corporations don’t create jobs; they take their subsidies and profits and hand it…