‘Deserving Bahamians’ to be honoured with Bahamian awards
From Bahama islands info Prime Minister the Rt. Hon. Perry G. Christie brings the keynote address at the official launch of The Bahamas’ 40th Anniversary of Independence in Rawson Square, Tuesday, March 12, 2013. (BIS Photo/Peter Ramsay) NASSAU, The Bahamas…
Eleventh-Hour law prevents FATF from blacklisting Turkey
By Samuel Rubenfeld, The Wall Street Journal The Financial Action Task Force said late Friday that Turkish legislation signed 10 days ago into law spared Ankara from its blacklist. Turkey’s national assembly passed a bill on preventing the financing of…
InTrade was awesome — here’s what all the critics got wrong
Joe Weisenthal Business Insider Sunday, Irish betting site InTrade announced on its website that all trading was being halted. The language is very ominous. It’s unclear if there will ever be trading again. The site was controversial. It was popular…
South Africa: ‘Over 25% of schoolgirls HIV positive’
BBC World News At least 28% of South African schoolgirls are HIV positive compared with 4% of boys because “sugar daddies” are exploiting them, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has said. He said 94,000 schoolgirls also fell pregnant in 2011, and…
“CTS, only one surgeon in South Florida to perform Endoscopic Cubital Tunnel
Release Procedure” Miami – What is Cubital Tunnel Syndrome? Cubital Tunnel Syndrome is a condition brought on by increased pressure on the ulnar nerve at the elbow. There is a bump (made of bone) on the inner portion of the…
Cayman Hedge Funds are under the spotlight at OffshoreAlert Conference
From OffshoreAlert How many hedge fund directorships are too many, should the number and name of each person’s directorships be transparent or concealed from investors, and to what extent are they regulated? Those are some of the questions that will…
India orders Italy ambassador Mancini not to leave
India’s Supreme Court has ordered the Italian ambassador not to leave the country after Rome’s refusal to return two marines charged with the murder of two fishermen in Kerala last year. The court had allowed the marines to go home…
Green Beers for St. Patrick’s Day
by Jana Ballinger Care2 Beer and the color green–two great things that are NOT great together. St. Patrick’s Day is known for lots of cool things, but putting food coloring into a glass of foamy, delicious brew is one thing…
Striking right on Budget
PS News Almost 250,000 Public Servants in the United Kingdom are expected to take part in a strike on Budget Day, 20 March. Members of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union have organised a three-month program of strikes and…
Restrained wage deal in sight
PS News The Jamaican Government is set to sign a new wage agreement for the 2012-15 contract period with the Public Service, with limited prospects for wage increases. The agreement follows an announcement by the union representing public sector workers…
