Issue No. 789 Monday, 28 February 2005
Business Monday
Chairman of CSX warns of regulatory ‘creep and drift’
 As
a senior partner with Maples and Calder, one of the world’s largest law firms
dealing with the offshore financial sector and key sponsors of the Regional
Caribbean Conference in the Cayman Islands, Anthony Travers’ speech was always
going to be worth listening to. A veteran of the law firm he has been in
the Cayman Islands for 30 years, since 1975 and a partner since 1977...
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Workforce skills assessment survey
The Cayman Islands Society for Human Resource Professionals, CISHRP
will be holding the Membership Luncheon Meeting on Thursday, 10 March from 12 to
2pm at the Wharf Restaurant...
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Caymanians missing from top professions
Even with almost a one hundred per cent
return rate of Caymanians studying abroad, government officials have said there
are still too few nationals eligible for places in the top professional category
of the workforce here in the Cayman Islands. At the official announcement
by the Business Staffing Plan Board, of the new exemption for expatriates in
senior professions from the seven-year fixed term policy...
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Changes in the works for Cayman General Insurance Company
Cayman National Corporation (CNC) is
currently negotiating with another insurance company with regards to Cayman
General Insurance. This comes on the heels of the local insurance firm being
downgraded from an A- to a B- rating by the international organisation AM Best
as well as the industry-wide insurance claims somewhere in excess of $1.2
billion as a result of the damage caused by Hurricane Ivan...
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Caribbean compliance conference
Local and international experts examined global compliance trends including anti-terrorism and anti-money laundering to a full house at the two day annual Caribbean Regional Compliance Conference at Westin Casuarina
Resort on 24 and 25 February. Around the world, compliance regulations
have been changing the way the offshore financial services sector does business
as it has come under fire...
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Entrepreneur of the Week - Errol Blair
When he was still a little boy, Errol Blair would sit in the barber’s shop near to his home at the end of the school day and watch carefully as the barber attended to customers.
Even though his father was a shoemaker by profession, Mr Blair found that as he
got older, he was far more interested in using his hands to acquire the skill of
hair grooming, rather than in following in his father’s footsteps...
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