World Press Freedom Day – Journalists being killed at ‘astonishing pace
(AP) — On World Press Freedom Day, Reporters Without Borders condemned the “astonishing pace” at which journalists are being attacked and murdered — 67 killed in 2011 and 22 more deaths since the beginning of the year. U.N. Secretary-General Ban…
Cayman Islands is not a place for LGBT honeymooners
The lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people have been provided with a list of the top 10 destinations in the world. Whilst the Caribbean as a group has come in at #10, the Cayman Islands along with Antigua and…
IRS presence at Conference attended by Cayman Islands criticised
From blog.livenewschat.tv/world-newsroom We’re standing by the pool at the Ritz Carlton in Florida’s South Beach, attendees at a financial conference here mingle by the bar and wander through meeting rooms upstairs. This isn’t just any industry conference — it’s the…
Activist’s fate deepens US-China suspicions
AP) — The diplomatic disarray deepened Thursday after a blind activist reversed course and asked to leave China with his family, abandoning an arduously negotiated agreement even though he had left the protection of the U.S. Embassy and was in…
RBC’s merger with RBTT creates new branding of operations in Bridgetown, Barbados
David Hackett, Regional President, Business Banking, Caribbean Banking, RBC, today announced RBTT Bank and RBC Royal Bank will be amalgamated and operate under a single legal entity, RBC Royal Bank (Barbados) Limited, during a press conference in Bridgetown “Today marks…
Cayman Islands’ manager’s questions cause Herbalife to tumble
Herbalife Ltd., the maker of nutritional supplements and weight-management products, fell the most in more than three years after hedge-fund manager David Einhorn asked executives why it has stopped providing information tracking certain groups of its distributors in its filings….
Deal undone? Activist now wants to leave China
(AP) — The blind Chinese dissident who boldly fled house arrest and placed himself under the wing of U.S. diplomats balked Wednesday at a deal delicately worked out between the two countries to let him live freely in China, saying…
DEA apologises to college student left in cell
AP) — A college student picked up in a federal drug sweep in California was never arrested, never charged and should have been released. Instead, authorities say, he was forgotten in a holding cell for four days. Without food, water…
Sarkozy and Hollande accuse each other of lying in French debate
President Nicolas Sarkozy and his challenger Francois Hollande have gone head-to-head in their only TV debate of the French election campaign. Mr Sarkozy has defended his economic record, stressing that France has not had one term of recession since 2009…
Cayman Islands make’s Hugh Muir of The Guardian’s “Diary” entry for May 1st
It’s pouring drought, but some MPs have escaped the miserable weather. Graham Brady, Tory MP for Altrincham and chair of the powerful 1922 backbench committee, spent a week in the Caymans in April. The trip to these sunny Caribbean isles…
