Mom, son die in accidents hours apart in Wisconsin
(AP) — A Wisconsin woman and her adult son were killed in separate traffic crashes just hours apart in a Milwaukee suburb, police said Monday. Mary J. Moore, 45, died after she was struck by a vehicle, on a street…
Invisible man casts shadow over US-China talks
(AP) — The blind Chinese lawyer at the center of a diplomatic storm between Washington and Beijing is a taboo topic in each capital. Neither side wants the biggest human- rights issue between the two since Tiananmen Square to disrupt…
AP EXCLUSIVE: US not reporting all Afghan attacks
(AP) — The military is under-reporting the number of times that Afghan soldiers and police open fire on American and other foreign troops. The U.S.-led coalition routinely reports each time, an American or other foreign soldier is killed by an…
Dillon Eustace moving into the Cayman Islands
By Joanne Harris (www.thelawyer.com) As this week’s offshore feature (see page 30) reports, all the talk in the sector recently has been of firms moving onshore. Both Maples and Calder and Walkers have found success in Dublin in recent years….
UK Minister in Cayman – GIS Spotlight
The week starting Monday, 30 April, GIS Spotlight follows the UK Overseas Territories minister’s first Cayman tour; delves into genealogy and revisits a milestone groundbreaking. Visiting Minister Mr. Henry Bellingham managed to pack a lot of activities into his short…
Cayman Islands judge ruling means problems for pension funds
Josh Barbanel and Steve Eder (online.wsj.com) A judge’s ruling in the battle between three Louisiana pension funds and New York hedge-fund firm Fletcher Asset Management shows the difficulties the funds may face in recovering their investments. After the three pension…
Cruise ship “Disaster” exercise held
A mock major cruise ship ‘accident’ in George Town Harbour on Tuesday, 24 April saw top Cayman Islands’ officials, especially emergency responders, turn out in force to react to the planned exercise. The operation, code-named ‘Exercise Save Vessel’, was the…
Cayman Island hedge fund ruled “very doubtfully solvent”
Looks like the Louisiana Firefighters’ Retirement System, the Municipal Employees’ Retirement System and the New Orleans Firefighters’ Pension and Relief Fund may have lost almost $100 million that the three public funds invested in a New York hedge fund run…
Ethics czar mulling probe into Fantino over alleged Cayman bank accounts
By: Steve Rennie, The Canadian Press The Canadian ethics watchdog is deciding whether to probe a Conservative cabinet minister over allegations he did not disclose bank accounts in the Cayman Islands. But a spokesman for Associate Defence Minister Julian Fantino…
The Norwegian ‘Children of the Rainbow’
Tens of thousands of people have protested in Norway against the anti-immigration views of Anders Behring Breivik, as they sang a peace song derided by the mass killer. A crowd of around 40,000 in the capital Oslo chose ‘Children of…
