Hackers holding Disney for ransom over “Pirates of the Caribbean 5” movie
By Catalin Cimpanu From Bleeping Computer Hackers are holding Disney for ransom, threatening to release a high-quality version of the “Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales” movie on torrents unless they’re paid a huge sum of money…
Virgin Atlantic apologizes to woman kicked out of Lounge because of her Service Dog
By Mary Beth Quirk From Consumerist The seemingly endless parade of airline apologies continues apace today, with Virgin Atlantic admitting one of its employees shouldn’t have told a disabled woman she couldn’t enter the airline’s airport lounge with her service…
US: Trump team unveils landmark tax plan
From Newsmax President Donald Trump proposed dramatic cuts in the taxes paid by corporations big and small Wednesday in an overhaul his administration says will spur economic growth and bring jobs and prosperity to America’s middle class. But his ambitious…
Soccer body CONCACAF sues former executives for $20m
Bahamas-domiciled regional soccer governing body CONCACAF is seeking at least $20 million in damages in a civil lawsuit against two of its former executives – Jack Warner and Chuck Blazer – and related companies in New York, the Cayman Islands…
One US airline never overbooks its flights
By Adam Levine-Weinberg, The Motley Fool From Business Insider Last week, a disturbing video showed a United Continental (NYSE:UAL) customer being violently dragged off an oversold flight. Not surprisingly, this incident has caused outrage around the world and sparked calls…
Emergency Services Standby Landing for Cayman Airways plane
Unusual Odour Prompts Emergency Services Standby Landing for CAL On Thursday, April 13, 2017, Cayman Airways flight KX793 arriving at Owen Roberts International Airport (ORIA) in Grand Cayman from New York, requested the airport emergency services to be on standby…
Shipping slump: Why a vessel worth $60m was sold as scrap
By Jamie Robertson From BBC In January 2010, the container ship Hammonia Grenada was delivered from a Chinese yard to its new owners, reportedly priced at about $60m (about £37m at that time). Just seven years later – at the…
Here’s how much people make working for a hedge fund
By Frank Chaparro From Business Insider Hedge funds have a reputation for being shrouded in mystery. But SumZero, an online community of buy-side professionals, has just made them a little less mysterious by revealing how much some people in the…
Caribbean crisis: Derisking could be most devastating threat – Arthur
By Marlon Madden From Barbados Today The Caribbean is facing a crisis imposed on it by other countries, and which has the potential to inflict the most devastating blow, according to former Prime Minister Owen Arthur. Speaking yesterday on The…
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Senegalese Bissap From The Seasoning Bottle I drink a version of bissap every Christmas season with my family and didn’t even know it. It was not until I went to a restaurant in Little Senegal, a Senegalese neighborhood in Harlem,…
