Argentina ‘will control Falklands within 20 years’
The Falkland Islands will be back under Argentine control within “20 years”, the country’s foreign minister Hector Timerman has said. On a visit to London, he claimed “not one” other nation supported UK sovereignty of the Falklands. Speaking to the…
Real Border Control Has to Come First in Any Immigration Deal
A Commentary By Scott Rasmussen, Rasmussen Reports A bipartisan group of eight U.S. senators has proposed an immigration reform plan that appears to broadly reflect what voters would like to see. But there’s a catch. Most Americans (56 percent) want…
Cubans land on Little Cayman
Six of the 21 Cuban migrants who departed Cayman Brac waters last Monday (4) landed the same night on Little Cayman. Immigration officials arranged for the five males and one female to be transported to Grand Cayman for processing. The…
Julius Baer’s Assets Under Management Rise To Record High, Buoyed By Inflows, Markets
Tom Burroughes, Group Editor, Wealth Briefing Julius Baer said today that assets under management at the end of 2012 hit a record of SFr189 billion ($296.8 billion), a rise of 11 per cent over the previous 12 months as a…
Bould Consulting Limited to rebrand as Rider Levett Bucknall (RLB)
In line with Rider Levett Bucknall’s unified global image, Cayman Island-based Construction & Property Advisory practice, Bould Consulting Limited is rebranding as Rider Levett Bucknall. The same expertise, personnel and quality service will continue to be provided to our many…
UBS Confirms It Is Cutting Jobs In Canada
Tom Burroughes Group Editor in London, WealthBriefing UBS is shedding 20 staff from its Toronto office, including the chief executive of its Canadian operations, Rick Meslin, and chief Canadian economist George Vasic, the Zurich-listed bank has confirmed to this publication….
Fidel Castro votes in Cuba election
By Marc Frank From prcaribbean.com Retired Cuban leader Fidel Castro voted in Cuba’s general election on Sunday and chatted with well wishers and Cuban reporters in Havana for more than an hour, in his first extended public appearance since 2010….
Richard III dig: DNA confirms bones are king’s
A skeleton found beneath a Leicester car park has been confirmed as that of English king Richard III. Experts from the University of Leicester said DNA from the bones matched that of descendants of the monarch’s family. Lead archaeologist…
Spain’s PM Mariano Rajoy pledges to battle on
Spanish PM Mariano Rajoy has fiercely denied corruption allegations, pledging that Spain will see off its worst financial crisis in recent years. He said his Popular Party (PP) was committed to reforms that would steer Spain away from the financial…
Alabama police kill kidnapper and save boy
Police in the US state of Alabama have killed a hostage-taker after a six-day standoff, saving the five-year-old boy he abducted, US media report. Jimmy Lee Dykes, 65, shot dead the driver of the boy’s school bus before abducting the…
