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Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro has asked the country’s chief prosecutor to investigate all Venezuelans whose names appear in the so-called “Panama Papers” – over 11 million leaked documents that originated with a Panama-based law firm…

A continuance has been granted in the ongoing bribery case against the former permanent representative of Antigua and Barbuda to the United Nations, John Ashe. A previously scheduled pretrial conference for April 8 was adjourned to May 5 at…

The Jamaica Promotions Corporation (JAMPRO), a government agency tasked with promoting foreign inward investment to Jamaica, may have implicated the Jamaican diplomatic corps in Washington, DC, in what appears to be a blatant attempt to…

The Western Hemisphere's only two members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Guyana and Suriname, will participate in next week's 13th Summit of the OIC from April 10-15 in Istanbul, Turkey. READ MORE AT:…

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has expressed concern that the “tax havens” label is again being attached to the financial services centres in member states, following the leak of the so-called Panama Papers. In a statement issued…

In the wake of the “Panama Papers” disclosure and global attention on international financial centres (IFCs), Jude Scott, CEO of Cayman Finance, the private sector organisation that represents the Cayman Islands’ financial services…

With today's political climate in the Middle East and around the world, many wealthy Egyptians are now turning to a second passport and European residency to secure their families' futures. In fact, for the Antigua and Barbuda citizenship…

Trinidad and Tobago’s Foreign Affairs Minister Dennis Moses says 12 Jamaicans were denied into the twin-island republic last month because they were deemed “likely to become charges on public funds”. The group of Jamaicans had accused…

Costas Takkas, the former secretary-general of the Cayman Islands Football Association (CIFA) and one time attaché to Jeffrey Webb when he was president of CONCACAF, has been extradited to the US ten months after he was arrested in Zürich…

Retired insurance executive Basil Christie said he contemplated jumping off the Paradise Island bridge when he learned that CLICO, the insurance company in which he invested $440,000, had gone into liquidation. On Thursday, Christie was…

The ongoing controversy over Puerto Rico’s insolvency and efforts to enlist congressional support for legal bankruptcy protection for the US territory have resulted in fingers being pointed at the local Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)…

The Court of First Instance in Curacao on Friday issued a confiscation order for 72.5 million guilders (US$40.96 million) against local lottery owner Robbie dos Santos. Santos was found guilty of possession of a firearm, money laundering,…

The Jamaica Customs Agency (JCA) will be implementing a tax stamp system for the monitoring of alcohol and cigarettes. The system, which will be introduced on a phased basis, allows for the authority to verify the authenticity of alcohol…

In what appears to the first money laundering conviction in the Eastern Caribbean island of Saint Lucia, a Venezuelan national was sentenced to 12 months in prison after the authorities found a treasure trove of cash in his hotel room, and…

A police officer was among seven people, wanted on lottery scamming charges in the United States, who were arrested on extradition warrants in Jamaica yesterday. The constable and the other six were among a total of 19 people who were…