OUR CARIBBEAN: Caricom’s diplomacy with the Vatican
By Rickey Singh, From Nation News Barbados It has been long in coming, but as the cliché goes, better late than never. I am referencing last week’s official announcement that our 15-member Caribbean Community and the Vatican have established diplomatic…
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The Editor Speaks: Forensic accountants?
We have many, many accountants here in the Cayman Islands but apparently no forensic accountants. Well, if there are, the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (CIMA) won’t employ them. In a story that appeared Friday (31) in the Cayman Compass and…
Time to find peace for Guyana and Venezuela
By Sir Ronald Sanders NEW YORK, United States, Friday July 31, 2015 – A search of the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon’s statements posted on his official website shows no mention of anything he said after a meeting last week…
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Energy independence for Caribbean region means million will be lifted out of poverty by 2031
By Silbert S. Barrett, ASCE (Aff.M.) Sustainable Strategist for Funding Major Infrastructure at Brittenwoods International, From Linkedin Pulse The dream of energy independence for the Northern Caribbean nations of Jamaica, Cayman, Cuba, Haiti, Bahamas and the Dominican Republic have gotten…
Emancipation Day August 1st
Emancipendence from modern slavery By Michael Burke From Jamaica Observer ON August 1, 1834 there was partial emancipation from physical slavery in the British colonies and full emancipation on August 1, 1838. In the case of Jamaica, political independence was…
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The Caribbean and the International Criminal Court: Time to leave?
By Dr David Hoile From Caribbean News Now The international debate that has opened up regarding the International Criminal Court as a consequence of South Africa’s decision not to arrest Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir while he was attending the recent…
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Russia invades Saint Vincent with stealth and Dynasty Collaboration between 2002 and 2015
By Peter Binose The two main players in the 1979 Grenada revolution was Russia and Cuba. They introduced the rest of the Worlds scum like Iran, North Korea, the East European communist countries of that time, Vietnam and just about…
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Cuba will revert to being just another Caribbean island — and that’s a good thing
By David Blair, The Telegraph From National Post Former Cuban president Fidel Castro was surely guilty of the single most irresponsible act in human history. At the height of the Cuban missile crisis, he dispatched a letter to Soviet leader…
They stole us
By Peter Binose “They stole us. They sold us. They owe us!” The question is; who stole who? who sold who? who owes who? and who is ‘us’? I once wrote about Antonio Gonsalves the Portuguese sea captain from Madiera…
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The Editor Speaks: Is it over for money service businesses?
Money service businesses or MTOs (Money Transfer Operators) like Western Union may cease to exist. The sudden notice by Fidelity Bank & Trust International Limited (FBT) here in the Cayman Islands to say they had already ceased to offer Western…
