US craft beer: How it inspired British brewers
By Jon Kelly BBC News Magazine, Washington DC Once widely mocked, US beer is now popular globally with hipsters and connoisseurs alike. Why is the world buying in to the American brewing revolution? Not so very long ago, American beer…
Six migrants repatriated
Immigration officials today (Tuesday, 16 April, 2013) repatriated six Cuban migrants. This brings to 10 the number of migrants that have been returned to Cuba in April 2013 to date. Sixteen migrants remain at the Immigration Detention Centre on Grand Cayman.
UPDATE: Fishermen found – (Police search for missing fishermen)
RCIPS PR 17th April 2013 8:49 Missing fisherman located The three local fishermen who had been missing since Monday 8 April have been located. The canoe was spotted approximately a mile and a half off Kaibo earlier this morning by…
Boston bombings: Obama condemns ‘act of terrorism’
BBC US President Barack Obama has condemned the bombings at the Boston Marathon as a “terrorist act”. He said the attack had been a “heinous and cowardly act”, but said it was not yet known who carried out the attack…
China-based skin-care product supplier seeks TWSE listing
From Focus Taiwan Taipei, April 13 (CNA) Chlitina Holding Ltd., a China-based skin- care product seller, is seeking to launch a primary listing on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE), the exchange said Friday. It is the first primary listing application…
Econfin Dublin 2013: What the European Finance Ministers said
Independent Ireland IRISH FINANCE MINISTER MICHAEL NOONAN (ON EXTENSION OF EU LOANS) “The commission paper, which has been available, settled on a seven year extension of maturities… There doesn’t seem to be significant pushback. The best way of putting it…
North Korea marks birthday of Kim Il-sung
BBC North Korea has marked the 101st anniversary of the birth of founding father Kim Il-sung as tensions continue over the country’s nuclear programme. Leader Kim Jong-un visited the mausoleum of his grandfather and his father Kim Jong-il in Pyongyang,…
New report says China secretly executes thousands of people a year
Rebecca Baird-Remba Business Insider China is carrying out thousands of secret executions but refusing to report them, according to a report released this week by Amnesty International. Amnesty believes China executed several thousand people last year — more than all…
IDC: Windows 8 has actually made PCs ‘a less attractive alternative to tablets’
By Brad Reed BGR While Microsoft’s (MSFT) launch of Windows 8 was supposed to be the big change that the company needed to help personal computers keep pace with touch-based devices such as tablets and smartphones, new research from IDC…
President Obama Awards Medal of Honor to Father Emil Kapaun
By Colleen Curtis whitehouse blogs Photo: President Barack Obama embraces Ray Kapaun after presenting him with the Medal of Honor awarded posthumously to his uncle, Chaplain (Captain) Emil J. Kapaun, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White…
