Premier meets Simmonds
Premier McKeeva Bush was in London, the first stop of an official trip that takes him to Copenhagen and Greenland for meetings of overseas countries and territories. On Thursday, 20th September, the Premier and other members of the Cayman delegation…
National Contracts Commission Public Notice – NCC Contractor Registration
Kingston; September 21, 2012 – The Office of the Contractor General (OCG) has been requested by the Chairman of the National Contracts Commission (NCC), Mr. Raymond McIntyre, to use its good offices to issue the following NCC notice, via an…
Conservative party treasurer lobbies for UK to be like Cayman Islands : two opposing views
1. Tory treasurer wants UK to become more like a tax haven By Rajeev Syal and Martin Williams The Guardian Lord Fink calls for tax law changes as Guardian reveals 68 MPs and peers are directors of firms linked to…
Tech firms find havens [like Cayman Islands] from U.S. taxes
By Carolyn Lochhead SF Gate Washington — Silicon Valley multinationals aggressively exploit foreign tax havens in Bermuda, Grand Cayman and elsewhere to dodge U.S. taxes, according to a bipartisan Senate report issued Thursday. Hewlett-Packard, based in Palo Alto, and Microsoft, based…
Two stories on starting an offshore shell company
1. NBC’s I-Team: How We Started An Offshore Shell Company By Chris Glorioso and Tom Burke It doesn’t take a squadron of bankers or lawyers to set up one of these secretive shell corporations that dodge U.S. taxes It is…
Drugs without violence in Mexico?
By Mohamed Zayed, iNews Cayman special correspondent The Supreme Committee of the presidential election has declared Enrique Pena Nieto, Institutional Revolutionary Party’s candidate, president with 38 % against his closet leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrado, with a wide margin…
Anti-Islam film: US condemns Pakistan minister’s bounty
The US state department has condemned a Pakistani minister’s offer of $100,000 (£61,600) for the death of the American maker of an anti-Islam film. It said the step was “inflammatory and inappropriate”. Railways Minister Ghulam Ahmad Bilour made the offer…
Whittaker TKO’d in 10th
Cayman Islands Charles (the Killa) Whittaker lost his big fight against Gabriel Rosado on Friday (21) at the Sands Casino Resort in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, when the fight was stopped in the 10th round after Whittaker had down on the canvas…
Cayman Finishes 4th at J/22 2012 World Sailing Championships
The 2012 J/22 World Championships took place this year in Crouesty Arzon Yacht Club in Brittany, France, from June 26-29 2012 and the Cayman team just missed out of the medals by finishing an impressive 4th place out of 24…
