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Pet Connection Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
I know this isn't about pets, but I also know our readers care about all animals, as well as about wildlife and conservation issues. I write for PetHobbyist.com, which is the parent company of kingsnake.com , the oldest and largest reptile and amphibian website in the world. Last week, we were informed that six Blue Iguanas at the Blue Iguana Recovery Programme in the Cayman Islands had been...
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Poverty News Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
from the Cayman Compass By Alan Markoff, The National Assessment of Living Conditions study indicates only 1.9 per cent of the population in the Cayman Islands – which would amount to just more than 1,000 people – live below the poverty line. The majority of those classified as poor are non–Caymanians, Leader of Government Business Kurt Tibbetts said in a statement in Legislative Assembly Wednesday....
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Market Wire - Financial Services (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA (MARKET WIRE) China One Corporation ("China One") (TSX VENTURE: CHO.P) is pleased to announce that it has entered into a letter of intent (the "LOI") dated effective May 7, 2008 with IND Lifetech Group Ltd. ("IND"), a Cayman Islands company, for the acquisition of all the issued and outstanding securities of IND (the "Acquisition"). IND is an emerging raw milk producer...
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TheStockAdvisors.com (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
My latest Chinese stock pick is a smaller entrepreneurial offshore Chinese newcomer. It is headed by an architect who is close to the government, although he had the good sense to incorporate Xinyuan Real Estate in the Cayman Islands. Board chairman Yong Zhang, his wife, the COO, and his CPA cousin, plus other insiders, control 61% of the operation of XIN (which is pronounced like chin.) The...
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PinkNews.co.uk (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
In the wake of an incident in which a gay man was detained by police on the Cayman Islands after kissing his boyfriend in public, a politician in the British Overseas Territory has questioned why he received an apology.
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
GRAND CAYMAN, Cayman Islands--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Greenlight Capital Re, Ltd. (NASDAQ: GLRE), a specialty property and casualty reinsurer based in the Cayman Islands, will hold its first
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
GRAND CAYMAN, Cayman Islands--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Greenlight Capital Re, Ltd. (NASDAQ: GLRE) today announced financial results for the first quarter of 2008. Greenlight Re reported a net loss
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
A Bluebirds fan is making his second trip from the Caribbean in the matter of weeks to see his team at Wembley.
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Think Progress (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
The Boston Globe has recently revealed that two Defense Department contractors operating in Iraq — KBR and MPRI — have avoided paying hundreds of millions of dollars in federal Social Security and Medicare taxes by hiring its employees through “shell companies” based in Bermuda and the Cayman Islands. Today, the AP reveals a third contractor [...]
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Caymanian Compass (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
The caycompass.com website crashed Monday afternoon because of the high amount of web traffic following links to the article about the police detaining a gay man for kissing his boyfriend in public here.
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Caymanian Compass (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
A few days after Cayman's tourism director apologised for authorities' decision to detain a gay man at a local bar, the Tourism Minister was calling the public display of affection which apparently led to that apprehension "offensive."
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TaxProf Blog (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
From last week's episode of Bones, Baby in the Bough: Dr. Brennan: What do you know about the Cayman Islands? Agent Booth: Great diving, you know lots of sea turtles. Why, are you going? Brennan: No, my accountant wants me...
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Box Turtle Bulletin (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
That apology issued by the Cayman Islands tourism director to a gay American tourist who was detained by police after kissing his partner at a dance club has been called into question by the island's Minister of Tourism. Minister Charles Clifford was asked about the incident in which 22-year-old Aaron Chandler was detained by the Royal Cayman Islands [...]
