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No arrest in death of Jamaican nurse in Cayman

DETECTIVES in the Cayman Islands are yet to make an arrest in the suspected murder of Jamaican nurse Kerran Baker.


topix.net | 08-Feb-2012 11:59

Sibling rivalry blamed for P'more killing

The stench lingered and flies maintained interest in the scene a day after the body of 35-year-old Stacy-Ann Smith was removed from her Portsmouth home in Portmore, St Catherine.


topix.net | 08-Feb-2012 08:49

New Legislation Would Close Corporate Tax Loopholes, Save Taxpayers $155 billion

February 7 - Statement of U.S. PIRG Tax and Budget Associate Dan Smith on the introduction of the Cut Unjustified Tax Loopholes Act by Senators Carl Levin and Kent Conrad.


topix.net | 08-Feb-2012 00:30

5 things you need to know for Tuesday

The Hernando County Sheriff's Office on Tuesday will announce the results of a multi-agency international investigation that led to the seizure of more than $1,000,000 in assets.


topix.net | 07-Feb-2012 14:56

M&M sorter wanted

There are so many glorious perks of being a famous musician - but the best of them all is the tour rider.


topix.net | 07-Feb-2012 04:22

NP put on hold to give telcos more time to complete service tests

The arrival of number portability in the Cayman Islands has been put on hold to allow local telecoms service providers to complete all necessary testing ahead of its implementation.


topix.net | 06-Feb-2012 16:33

Banco Bradesco S.A.: Company Profile and SWOT Analysis - new company profile report published

The bank provides a wide range of banking and financial products and services to small to mid-sized companies, international corporations, individuals and major local and institutions in Brazil and abroad.


topix.net | 06-Feb-2012 03:54

70000 Tons of Metal 2: Best of concerts slideshow Part I

MIAMI & CAYMAN ISLANDS -- A whole new crop of 42 bands played two shows apiece and sailed aboard this year's version of the second annual 70000 Tons of Metal cruise Jan.


topix.net | 05-Feb-2012 03:57

Regenexx-SD (stem cells) being used in battle with the FDA

Regenexx is a stem cell procedure based on four years of hard data from clinical procedures that uses a patients own stem cells to help with knee, hand, hip and back complications.


topix.net | 04-Feb-2012 23:52

US tourist dies while diving in Cayman Islands

Police in the Cayman Islands say a 47-year-old U.S. tourist has died while scuba diving off popular North West Point in Grand Cayman.


topix.net | 04-Feb-2012 19:47

Mitt Romney adds income from now-closed Swiss bank account to his financial disclosure forms

GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney amended his personal financial disclosure Friday night to reflect income from a now-shuttered Swiss bank account and one other investment fund he had originally failed to report on the ethics form.


topix.net | 04-Feb-2012 17:43

New Market Report: Plains Exploration & Production Company (PXP) -...

PXP principally engages in the acquisition, development, exploitation, exploration and production of oil and gas acreage in California, Texas, Louisiana and the Gulf of Mexico.


topix.net | 04-Feb-2012 08:18

Just Released: "Tipco Asphalt Public Company Limited (TASCO) -...

The company, through its subsidiaries manufactures and distributes asphalt products which are used in the construction and maintenance of roads, maintenance and paving industries and essential for transportation within the Thailand.


topix.net | 04-Feb-2012 01:14

Scientists Analysing The Release Of Genetically Modified Insects Into ...

While genetically modified plants have already been introduced into the wild on a large scale in some parts of the world, the release of genetically modified animals is still at a relatively early stage.


topix.net | 03-Feb-2012 15:55

JPG resumes banana exports

J amaica Producers Group resumed the export of bananas last December but says its markets will be limited to countries in the Caribbean that do not grow the fruit.


topix.net | 03-Feb-2012 11:36

70000 Tons of Metal 2: 55 nations, 42 bands, one 'converted' director

MIAMI & CAYMAN ISLANDS -- For those who squirm at the thought of being trapped on a boat in the middle of the ocean with 2,000-plus drunken metalheads moshing to 42 bands playing two concerts apiece for 4 1/2 days, here's a sobering thought: For the second consecutive January, the 70000 Tons of Metal voyage turned the fun and harmless debauchery up ... (more)


topix.net | 02-Feb-2012 12:38

City Room: Bringing Decades of Experience to the Bris

Philip L. Sherman with Scott M. Stringer, the Manhattan borough president, and his son Max at the baby's circumcision ceremony.


topix.net | 02-Feb-2012 08:34

Official under investigation vanishes

A relative who was speaking with Debbie Dusenbery in recent days filed a missing persons report with the Farmington Police Department Saturday after concerns over her whereabouts grew.


topix.net | 02-Feb-2012 03:19

Marcum Merges in Konowitz Kahn

Marcum LLP has expanded its New England practice by merging Connecticut accounting, tax and consulting firm Konowitz, Kahn & Company into its offices.


topix.net | 01-Feb-2012 23:15

Available information on the free release of genetically modified...

Genetically modified insects are being developed with a view to suppress insect populations of the same species which spread human diseases, such as malaria and Dengue Fever, or that are agricultural pests destroying crops.


topix.net | 01-Feb-2012 19:05

Obama's big swiss cheese

Romney has taken a lot of flak for his offshore bank accounts in Switzerland and the Cayman Islands.


topix.net | 01-Feb-2012 02:01

Best Affirms American Service Pool Ratings; Outlook Stable

A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating of 'B' and issuer credit ratings of "bb" of Illinois-based American Country Insurance Company and American Service Insurance Company, Inc.


topix.net | 31-Jan-2012 21:57

The FairTax is not a tough choice

We all have to make tough choices in life. Choosing between the current income tax and the FairTax is not that tough.


topix.net | 31-Jan-2012 17:53

Congress' Disgraceful Disclosure Practices

After zooming way in on my computer, as far as I could make out, the line on the blurry, scanned document read "Gerrrin Lld ." The task? Seemingly simple: Review congressional personal financial disclosure documents to get a sense for if, when, or how Congress members might be using nonpublic information to boost their personal bottom lines.


topix.net | 31-Jan-2012 00:09

Why is Team Gingrich parroting a pro-Obama union's attack?

In recent days, two ads were released in Florida attacking Mitt Romney's record at Bain Capital.


topix.net | 30-Jan-2012 19:55

The lessons from the Goldman Sachs proposed $2bn sukuk saga

As if blue chip investment bank, Goldman Sachs International, did not have any other problems in a global financial market that is already reeling in the aftermath of the banking crisis and in the wake of the ongoing euro zone sovereign debt crisis.


topix.net | 30-Jan-2012 01:32

COMMENTARY: A look back at changes, good and bad

Anniversaries are times for reflection. And with my 35th anniversary with Business Insurance this month, I have a few thoughts on some of the changes I've seen in my three and one-half decades here.


topix.net | 29-Jan-2012 16:13

Tropical treasures of the natural kind

The Cayman Islands may be known as a tax haven, but for Cathy Winston it's the rare butterflies and blue iguanas that raise her interest rate 'I first met Godzilla in the early 1980s.


topix.net | 29-Jan-2012 01:48

GMB Union joins row over Four Seasons account 'confusion'

Unions have written to the auditor for Four Seasons Health Care to ask for clarification of the care home provider's financial situation after being refused a request to see its offshore accounts.


topix.net | 29-Jan-2012 00:48

Letter: Talking heads out of touch with reality

Just watched Bill O'Reilly and Lou Dobbs talk and defend the 1 percent of Americans keeping money in the Cayman Islands because that government protects their privacy better than the U.S. I hope the conservative radio and TV hosts ask them to move there.


topix.net | 28-Jan-2012 17:39

Romney, Herger, and other parasites

Mitt Romney thinks that critics with less money are all envious of him, but I think it would be a terrible thing to be Mitt Romney.


topix.net | 28-Jan-2012 13:35

Zoozoo's Got The Number

It hasn't escaped anyone's attention that the Vodafone tax case verdict was quite exquisitely timed.


topix.net | 28-Jan-2012 09:20

A Bad Night for Newt Gingrich

Not only did Romney put in his best debate performance yet, Gingrich was so slow-footed he lost a round with moderator Wolf Blitzer.


topix.net | 28-Jan-2012 05:06

70000 Tons of Metal: CNN Video Report Available

A four-and-a-half-minute CNN video report on this year's installment of the 70000 Tons Of Metal cruise - which set sail Monday, January 23 aboard the Royal Caribbean Majesty Of The Seas from Miami, Florida to George Town, Cayman Islands and will return to the real world today - can be seen velow.


topix.net | 28-Jan-2012 00:56

Q&A on HR in Pakistan

Hassan Tayyeb Tirmizi is one of the founding members of the Society for Human Resource Management Forum in Pakistan.


topix.net | 27-Jan-2012 20:47

TV's Kate visits Monmouth schoolchildren and gives career talk

MONMOUTHSHIRE resident Kate Humble, recently visited Monmouth Preparatory School, The Grange, to pass on some of her top tips on a career in television.


topix.net | 27-Jan-2012 16:37

Hurting America

Mitt Romney's Florida ads stress that he was involved in the founding of Staples and Sports Authority and in so doing created many jobs.


topix.net | 27-Jan-2012 12:17

'Offshore Shams' Abet Mutual Fund Speculation in Commodities: Senator

The head of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations called for an end to private letter rulings from the Internal Revenue Service which have "essentially opened the floodgates" for mutual funds to speculate in commodities from offshore tax havens such as the Cayman Islands.


topix.net | 27-Jan-2012 08:03

Romney Revising Disclosures for Overseas Accounts

Mitt Romney could face new questions about his overseas investments after a campaign official acknowledged to NBC News that his campaign is revising his federal ethics forms to report more than a half dozen offshore holdings, including income from a multi-million dollar Swiss bank account that was not disclosed last year.


topix.net | 27-Jan-2012 03:48

Mitt Romney Forgot to Mention Loose Change in Car Ashtray

Cash rich but personality poor Mitt Romney is probably going to have to fire someone today which will probably give him a boner or something.


topix.net | 27-Jan-2012 00:43

A Flood of New CPAs, Out of the Blue

You know what's funny? Over the last few days,some people on Facebook and on some blogs who aren't anywhere close to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's level of income, and have no fundamental level of proper tax knowledge seem to be spending an enormous amount of time clarifying and defending the contents of Romney's annual tax returns in minutiae which were released this past week .


topix.net | 26-Jan-2012 20:44

Tax-News.com: Guernsey Remains Leader In Non-UK Listings

Guernsey remains home to more non-UK entities listed on the London Stock Exchange than any other jurisdiction globally, according to figures from the market authority.


topix.net | 26-Jan-2012 13:15

GOP senator grilled Obama nominee about tax havens in 2010

Before Mitt Romney's Cayman Islands investments became an issue in the Republican presidential campaign, a senior Republican senator cited similar financial arrangements as cause for concern about a nominee for a top position at the Treasury Department.


topix.net | 26-Jan-2012 06:01

'The 99%' calls on Wells Fargo to pay its fair share of taxes

Workers briefly occupied the Wells Fargo tower downtown St. Paul Tuesday, shaming the giant bank for using loopholes in the corporate tax code to avoid paying its fair share.


topix.net | 26-Jan-2012 01:51

In defense of the Romney rich

Latest about Romney via @ SheThePeople http://t.co/9Bth8T6v #tcot @ suziparker : Who doesn't want an account in the Cayman Islands? I do.


topix.net | 25-Jan-2012 17:41

Downton Abbey and abstinence education

Latest about Romney via @ SheThePeople http://t.co/9Bth8T6v #tcot @ suziparker : Who doesn't want an account in the Cayman Islands? I do.


topix.net | 25-Jan-2012 17:41

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