Cayman Islands: Fairfield Liquidators obtain another important victory in recovery efforts
Last Updated: 22 November 2017 Article by Kenneth M. Krys and Charlotte Caulfield KRYS Global Clawback claims in excess of $6 billion of overpaid redemptions have been brought by the Fairfield Sentry liquidators in about 300 United States Bankruptcy Court…
Is parasite from Vietnam killing vets?
From Newsmax A half century after serving in Vietnam, hundreds of veterans have a new reason to believe they may be dying from a silent bullet — test results show some men may have been infected by a slow-killing parasite…
Awesome offices
12 awesome offices reveal what work will look like in the future By Rachel Gillett From Business Insider The workplaces of the future will be geared towards elevating worker performance in some unexpected ways.By WXY architecture + urban design, courtesy…
Giant Caribbean sloths disappeared in extinction that also killed off monkeys and giant rodents
BY KATE SHERIDAN From Newsweek Don’t worry, giant ground sloths won’t be interrupting anyone’s Caribbean vacation. Humans killed them all off long ago, according to new findings published in the November issue of the Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and…
Football: FIFA corruption trial opens in New York
AFP From World Soccer Talk New York (AFP) – It was the raid that changed the face of the world’s most popular sport. Swiss police swooped in on a five-star Zurich hotel at dawn, arresting seven soccer officials at US…
UN General Assembly elects Nigeria, 14 others to Human Rights Council
From Premium Times UN General Assembly elects 18 members into Human Rights CouncilUN General Assembly elects 18 members into Human Rights CouncilNigeria seeks re-election into UN Human Rights CouncilNigeria seeks re-election into UN Human Rights CouncilNigeria says UN Security Council…
The ‘Red Cross was not there’: Texas official blasts the agency’s response after Hurricane Harvey
By Justin Elliott, Jessica Huseman, Decca Muldowney, ProPublica From Business Insider This story was co-published with The Texas Tribune. The Red Cross’ anemic response to Hurricane Harvey left officials in several Texas counties seething, emails obtained by ProPublica show. In…
Caribbean immigrant experiences in New York
By Alexandra Simon From Caribbean Life The city’s Human Rights Commission in partnership with Medgar Evers College hosted a discussion between some of the city’s notable Caribbean-Americans at Medgar Evers College on Sept. 20. The event titled, “Honoring Our Culture,…
Facebook and Microsoft’s big undersea cable is finally finished
BY MONICA CHIN From Mashable More than 17,000 feet below the ocean’s surface, there now lies the “most technologically advanced subsea cable,” providing up to 160 terabits (Tbps) of data per second — beating Google’s alternative, now poorly named,“Faster.” The…
Turks and Caicos: Relief funds launched to assist after hurricanes
From TC Weekly A STRING of relief funds has been set up to assist TCI hurricane victims and Islanders are being urged to help out. PDM politicians are calling on people to dig deep and contribute to the Hurricane Ike…