Cayman NetNews has reported that:
The Governor of the Cayman Islands, His Excellency Stuart Jack, CVO, today (Thursday, 27 March) announced that he has put three senior police officers on required leave to facilitate enquiries into allegations against officers of the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service (RCIPS).
Police Commissioner Stuart Kernohan, Deputy Commissioner Rudolph Dixon and Detective […]
Andre Iton has written an incredible article for Cayman NetNews. Incredible because of what he says. Incredible because he has the courage to say it in such a place.
Having reviewed the role of Cayman in several recent news stories, such as that relating to Tesco’s tax, he says:
What has given the Tesco case resonance is […]
Tax-news.com has reported:
Jersey has been recommended as one of the top three global financial centres by leading advisers and wealth managers in research conducted by Citywealth, it was announced on Tuesday.
Featured alongside the Cayman Islands and Guernsey, Jersey has been identified in the top echelon in Citywealth’s annual ‘Leaders List 2008′ research.
The research involved numerous […]
More from Cayman NetNews, this time in response to the criticisms Obama is making of the place:
However, the question is what proactive campaigns - public relations and educational - are being put in place to counter this constant rhetoric in the US that might eventually lead to legislation adverse to the interests of the Cayman […]
Cayman NetNews has to be the best news outlet in any small island tax haven in the world. Amazingly, it has a frank and open approach to what happens in its community that involves a fair degree of self appraisal. This is not a trait I associate with many of its competitors in the tax […]
The FT reports that:
The global hedge fund market grew by about a fifth to almost $2,500 billion (£1,250 billion) in the first half of this year.
Assets under management in global hedge funds reached $2.48 trillion in July, according to research out today from HedgeFund Intelligence, an increase of 19 per cent since the beginning of […]
I strongly recommend that you read a recent editorial in Cayman Net News, which appears to be edited by extraordinary people.
This editorial is remarkably prescient. I hope they will forgive me as they have before) in quoting them (in part, and with a slight change in ordering to retain the flow):
We have warned on at […]
It’s always pleasant to find people agreeing with you. The FT’s editorial today says:
At the very least, it is time to rethink what we mean by “offshore”: size and proximity to the coastline do not seem to make much sense. A new definition would include anywhere that makes it easy for foreigners to reduce their […]
The scale of the offshore problem is graphically shown by an article in the Washington Post.
If you don’t see it before, now you’ll see why this is an issue that has not just got to be solved, it has to be eliminated.
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It’s good to see Cayman NetNews quoting me quoting them on the subject to their editorial on poverty in their island. Coupled with yesterday’s report here about poverty in Jersey these two stories provide compelling evidence that being a tax haven is not by any means good news for those local people who suffer the […]
