The View from Europe: Looking to the future
By David Jessop From The Barbados Advocate IN North America and Europe, there are, from time to time, international conferences that quietly enable new thinking. It is mostly an unseen process whereby governments, foundations or think tanks facilitate conversations, in…
The Editor speaks: Destruction, disruption, & dat noise
It was with some gloom I read the nearly 500 pages of the Proposed Cruise Berthing Facility – EIA Consultation June 2015 Report executed by The CIG appointed consultancy team – W.F. Baird & Associates Coastal Engineers Ltd., Smith Warner…
Guyana and Venezuela: Let the international court decide
By Ronald Sanders From CARIBBEAN360 BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Friday June 12, 2015 – It is, to say the least, unfortunate that Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro has allowed domestic pressures to cause him to take the extreme measure of issuing a decree…
Tighter banking regulations and the Caribbean
By David Jessop, From Dominican Today A few days ago the London Financial Times carried an interesting commentary on the growing problem that financial institutions in smaller nations such as those in the Caribbean are having in establishing or maintaining…
Letter to the Editor
Election victory of Suriname’s Bouterse is a slap in the face of democracy and human rights Dear Editor, The election victory of the NDP [National Democratic Party] of ex dictator and president D Bouterse shows clearly the short memory and…
The Editor speaks: Why is there silence from Cayman’s Football authorities?
Even though many of the top brass of the Cayman Islands Football Association (CIFA) are away this is no excuse from not issuing any statement at all concerning their president Jeffery Webb. There is such a thing called “the Internet”….
Women’s Football Day – Spotlight on Cayman Islands
The Cayman Islands Football Association conducted the first CONCACAF Women’s Football Day activity by hosting a tremendously successful and inspiring Women’s Football Forum on Thursday, May 21 at the Harquail Theatre. The evening featured two panels, moderated by acclaimed sports…
JetBlue Airways Corporation (JBLU), Twenty-First Century Fox Inc (FOX): CQS Cayman’s Top Picks for Q2
From MyInforms.com JetBlue Airways Corporation (JBLU), Twenty-First Century Fox Inc (FOX): CQS Cayman’s Top Picks for Q2 Michael Hintze is the CEO of CQS Cayman LP, a diversified fund established in 1999. The fund has around $9 billion in total…
Venezuela gives PetroCaribe Funds to the Caribbean Ponce’s whilst its own people prostitute themselves to stay alive.
By Peter Binose, Central London Saturday, May 16, 2015 Ponce; noun: one who lives off a prostitute’s earnings. Venezuela president currently has only a 20% approval rating. Yes they have built some houses and apartments for the poor, but that…
Revealing pledge by Cuba’s president
By Rickey Singh, From Barbados Nation News Guided by varied experiences of national, regional and international developments, readers of this column may have long come to accept the adage that in politics all things are possible – at times quite…