CONCACAF’s Quest for Fifth Spot in FIFA Women’s World Cup Canada 2015 Continues in November
CONCACAF Women’s Championship fourth-place finisher Trinidad and Tobago set for home-and-away play-in versus Ecuador, November 8 and December 2 Miami (Monday, October 27, 2014) – The Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) today confirmed the schedule…
British judge tells Caribbean investors to seek remedy elsewhere
From Caribbean News Now LONDON, England — Investors in the financially-troubled Harlequin group, developers of vacation resorts in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) and other Caribbean islands, appear to be no further forward in their attempts to recoup their…
Cayman Islands Pirates Week is almost upon us
This year’s Pirates Week – the National festival of the Cayman Islands – running from 6 November to 16 November, promises another eleven fun-filled days of music, street dancing, culinary delights and pirate attractions for Caymanians and visitors alike. Now…
OffshoreAlert – the Nemesis of Fraudsters – Comes to London next Month for its 3rd Annual European Financial Intelligence & Investigations Conference
LONDON — In October, 2012, OffshoreAlert exposed a £117 m fraud committed by Cayman Islands-domiciled Axiom Legal Financing Fund. Two weeks later, Axiom was suspended and went into liquidation. Its principal was struck off as a solicitor in England. In…
Plan won’t save Great Barrier Reef: Australian scientists
From Business Insider Sydney (AFP) – Australian government plans to protect the Great Barrier Reef are inadequate, short-sighted and will not prevent its decline, the country’s pre-eminent grouping of natural scientists said Tuesday. The draft plan, released for consultation last…
Antigua reach highest ever FIFA ranking as T&T, Haiti also soar
From Jamaica Observer Jamaica slip 13 places to 113th in the world ST JOHN’S, Antigua (CMC) – Antigua and Barbuda are celebrating their highest ever FIFA World ranking after they jumped this week to 70th in the world. The Benna…
Caribbean dream is a true born survivor
By Richard Wright GARDENING I’m grateful to Don Prescott for highlighting a star of a plant, which does especially well down his southern Wight neck of the woods but will survive almost anywhere. It is one of the vast agave…
TSA to Airlines: Fee hike ready for takeoff
By Andrew Ramonas, From Corporate Counsel The U.S. Transportation Security Administration on Monday defended a fee increase that advocates for American Airlines Group Inc., United Airlines Inc. and other air carriers are fighting in court, saying the companies haven’t shown…
Marlon Samuels denies Bravo’s claim he supported decision to abandon tour
From Caribbean360 KINGSTON, Jamaica, Tuesday October 28, 2014, CMC – West Indies batsman Marlon Samuels has robustly dismissed claims from West Indies One- Day International captain Dwayne Bravo that the Jamaican had given support to the decision to abandon the…
