In the Caribbean, celebrating women takes more than a day
From CaribFlame The Caribbean joined the international community in marking International Women’s Day March 8, but for many countries the observance will continue. In Dominica, rights groups say they will continue to lobby for tougher sentences for those convicted of…
Would the real tax havens please stand
By Sir Ronald Sanders From Curacao Chronicle “It is tantamount to an economic blockade”. That’s how Antigua and Barbuda’s Prime Minister, Gaston Browne, described the current withdrawal from Caribbean indigenous and offshore banks of correspondent relationships by US banks. His…
Google tax row: What’s behind the deal?
By Jamie Robertson From BBC The agreement between Google and the UK tax authorities to pay £130m in back taxes in the UK has been widely criticised as too lenient. Chancellor George Osborne described the deal as a “victory”, while…
HSBC to begin rebranding UK branch network
By Sky News UK From Yahoo HSBC is to accelerate the renaming of its UK branch network, it has emerged just hours after Europe’s biggest lender committed to retaining its headquarters in London. Sky News understands that HSBC plans to…
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A rupture in Europe, but whose politics will prevail?
By Rachel Shabi From AlJazeer t’s a bleakly depressing map – an aptly illustrative closing curtain on a bleakly depressing year. Bad enough that the nightmarish war in Syria unleashed the biggest refugee crisis since World War II. Horrendous enough that…
From the EU to China, 2016 ushers in new data headaches for companies
By Sue Reisinger, From Corporate Counsel Foreign governments—including China, Turkey and the European Union—are giving corporate America fits over how companies handle information and data, and the trend is only going to worsen this year. For example, the European Union is…
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Barbados: Not so quick with corporal punishment
By Adrian Green From Barbados Nation news The European Union’s representative in Barbados is “disturbed” that the majority of Barbadians still favour beating children as a way of discipline. This was the front page story of the DAILY NATION on…
Sweden tightens border with Denmark to keep out migrants
BY MEGAN SPECIA From Mashable Sweden has tightened border controls for those arriving by train, bus and ferry in an attempt to halt the flow of migrants and refugees into the country from mainland Europe. The new rules went into…
St Vincent PM denies financial wrongdoing days before election
By Whithfield Turner From Caribbean News Now KINGSTOWN, St Vincent — The prime minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines, Dr Ralph Gonsalves, has issued a forceful denial to claims of financial wrongdoing on his part. The claims began circulating…
COP21: Coal plans would derail 2 degree warming target
By Matt McGrath Environment correspondent, From BBC News Attempts to keep global warming to 2 degrees will be wildly off course if all planned coal fire plants are built. That’s the conclusion of a new analysis presented here at the…
