Bond yields spiked. The stock market threw a tantrum. Reuters analyst Dhara Ranasinghe called it “a tussle over borrowing costs.” The Fed won round 1, thanks to a little help from the Aussies. But even […]
Trinidad & Tobago: Charged with rape of 76-year-old
A 40-year-old man appeared virtually at the Princes Town Magistrates’ Court on Monday charged with burglary, robbery with violence and rape. Shane Khan of Princes Town, was remanded in custody when he […]
Bahamas: CARDED AT BIRTH: NIB and Immigration Dept working on national ID card
NASSAU, BAHAMAS — The National Insurance Board (NIB) is collaborating with the Department of Immigration to produce a card that will be issued at birth and indicate a person’s nationality, Minister of […]
Suriname: “Unbridled price increases conspiracy crook gang”
“A conspiracy of different actors within the value chain, from import to consumer” and a “chain in which a gang of crooks and criminals operate”. District commissioner Ricardo Bhola of Paramaribo-Northeast and Pertab […]
Dominican Republic: Abinader starts work on the expansion of the highway to San Isidro
Santo Domingo – President Luis Abinader led the groundbreaking ceremony for the expansion of the highway to San Isidro (Coronel Rafael Tomás Fernández Domínguez Avenue) on Thursday. It is a project that […]
Jamaica: Suspect in murder of Calabar coach killed in shootout with cops
Oneil Ford — the prime suspect in the murder of Calabar coach Nicholas Neufville and a 19-year-old female on Valentine’s Day last month — was killed in a dramatic daylight shootout with cops at the Portmore Mall in St […]
Amazon crushed affordable housing. Now it’s trying to offset the problem it helped create
The November 2018 announcement that Amazon would be siting HQ2, its second headquarters, in Arlington, Virginia, triggered some not-unexpected anxiety about the company’s impact on the local housing market. The projected influx of […]
Had it with email? Give personal office hours a try
In early 2016, I published an article with a purposefully provocative title, ‘A Modest Proposal: Eliminate Email.’ Though I’d been writing about the unique miseries of this technology on my blog, this piece was […]
Google’s anti-tracking move is good for privacy, and even better for Google
Google’s move against individual web tracking might be good for consumer privacy—and could look good to antitrust investigators—but it will also consolidate Google’s power in interactive advertising, several advertising sources told Fast Company on […]
Guyana: Parliament suspended following protest over Kwame McCoy
Speaker of the National Assembly Manzoor Nadir was forced to suspend indefinitely today’s sitting after members of the opposition protested the presence of Minister Kwame McCoy in the Chamber. As the Assembly […]
