Travel industry veteran to receive CMEX Leadership Award
From Caribbean American Passport Magazine (source Carinnean360) MIAMI, United States – Travel and tourism industry veteran Horace Hord will receive the 2014 Caribbean Media Exchange (CMEx) Leadership Award next month in Miami. Organizers announced that Hord will receive the honor…
Dominica confuses and embarrasses CARICOM
From Caribbean News Now NEW YORK, USA — The insistence by the government of Dominica to sponsor the candidacy of a sitting member of the British parliament and former minister in the British government for the post of Commonwealth secretary-general…
Obama’s golf rarely idled by world events
From Newsmax At this month’s NATO meeting in Wales, President Barack Obama spent two days tantalizingly close to one of the planet’s great golf courses. The president could only gaze through the windows of conference rooms, limousines and helicopters at…
Cahill fends off German Bank’s suit against S&P
By Susan Beck, The Litigation Daily German bank IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG was a little too late to the party. In a ruling Tuesday, Manhattan U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff held that a fraud lawsuit brought by IKB against Standard…
The Bajan diaspora and the Panama men
By Henry S. Fraser From Caribbean360 BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Sunday August 17, 2014 – The Barbados Network Consultation 2014, or the 3rd Diaspora Conference, has just ended, and has generated enormous interest and enthusiasm. It should make us think about our…
Caribbean tourism prepares for major change
CTO State of the Industry Conference in USVI from 17-19 September to examine issues that impact Caribbean’s primary revenue earner. BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CTO) — Caribbean and global tourism thought leaders gather in St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands next month to…
Cayman hedge fund puts Argentina under the hammer
“Led by NML Capital Ltd., a Cayman Islands hedge fund”, has put Argentina under its hammer to pay its debt that was due on Monday 30th June 2014. Argentina hasn’t. Read on: NML Capital: ‘Argentina has refused to negotiate’ From…
A death by skin cancer? The Bob Marley story
From Repeating Islands Dr Cleland Gooding MD., F.A.A.D., a physician with a specialty in Skin Diseases employed by the Bahamas Government, has penned this intriguing article about Bob Marley’s failed treatment for skin cancer, which eventually progressed to the brain…
US Supreme Court rules in favor of worldwide discovery against foreign sovereigns
From Steptoe & Johnson LLP In Republic of Argentina v. NML Capital Ltd., the US Supreme Court held that the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) does not bar discovery into a foreign sovereign’s assets and allowed a judgment creditor broad,…
Protecting your loved one in a nursing home
By Bamundo Zwal & Schermerhorn, LLP From Caribbean Life That unfortunate time has come. Your sick or elderly loved one can no longer care for themselves, and their needs are too great for you to properly meet. How do you…
