KPMG sponsorship expands ICCI business programme
KPMG in the Cayman Islands will be sponsoring the International College of the Cayman Islands’ fundraising initiative for an academic chair to hire a full-time accounting professor over a three year period. An academic chair is a university designation given…
Island Heritage CharityDrive A Success!
(Grand Cayman, 30 April 2012) On the 24th, 25th and 26th of April, the Island Heritage Roundabout was the centre of widespread attention during the first annual CharityDrive, an innovative campaign to raise funds for three worthy Cayman charities. CharityDrive…
Century 21 China Real Estate announces settlement with Cayman Islands company
BEIJING, April 30, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — IFM Investments Limited (“Century 21 China Real Estate” or the “Company”), a leading comprehensive real estate services provider and the exclusive franchisor for the CENTURY 21® brand in China, today announced that,…
Premier Bush – Vice Chair of Caribbean OCT Council
Premier McKeeva Bush was elected Vice Chair of the Caribbean Overseas Countries and Territories Council on Thursday. High level political representatives of ten Caribbean Overseas Countries and Territories convened for the first time in Curacao where they agreed to establish…
Dillon Eustace moving into the Cayman Islands
By Joanne Harris (www.thelawyer.com) As this week’s offshore feature (see page 30) reports, all the talk in the sector recently has been of firms moving onshore. Both Maples and Calder and Walkers have found success in Dublin in recent years….
Cayman Islands judge ruling means problems for pension funds
Josh Barbanel and Steve Eder (online.wsj.com) A judge’s ruling in the battle between three Louisiana pension funds and New York hedge-fund firm Fletcher Asset Management shows the difficulties the funds may face in recovering their investments. After the three pension…
Cayman Island hedge fund ruled “very doubtfully solvent”
Looks like the Louisiana Firefighters’ Retirement System, the Municipal Employees’ Retirement System and the New Orleans Firefighters’ Pension and Relief Fund may have lost almost $100 million that the three public funds invested in a New York hedge fund run…
Cayman’s premier making headlines all over the Caribbean
This story appeared on the website: www.caribbean360.com Cayman business community nervous over Bush probes Police probes into Cayman Premier McKeeva Bush over two alleged cases of financial irregularities and his involvement with an illegal shipment of dynamite has raised concerns…
Well loved Insurance “Hall of Fame” founder laid to rest
by Colin Wilson (from the Eulogy by J. Lemuel Hurlstone, CVO, MBE, JP) It was with much sadness I witnessed the Mass of Christian Burial for Rupert Lloyd Anderson Christie at St. George’s Anglican Church last Tuesday (24). Lloyd was…
Financial elite from Cayman prepare for OffshoreAlert Conference
Three hundred high-level attendees from 23 countries or jurisdictions, including the Cayman Islands, will attend next week’s OffshoreAlert Conference to discuss everything that’s important in the world of offshore finance. The event – which will be broadcast live over the…
