November 25, 2011
Nelly’s Production School To Open In Saint Louis Next Week
Nelly’s new recording school will open at the end of this month in St. Louis, Missouri. The rapper’s Vatterott College ex’treme Institute by Nelly-St. Louis will begin classes on November 28. The 9,000 square-foot facility, which is located at…
November 25, 2011
Jill Scott, Chaka Khan, Erykah Badu, and Mary J. Blige on Stage for VH1 Concert
VH1 has an incredible line up for the upcoming “VH1 Divas Celebrates Soul” event with Chaka Khan, Erykah Badu, Estelle and Marsha Ambrosius on the roster. Other performances include Mary J. Blige, Jennifer Hudson, and Jill Scott (pictured above).…
November 25, 2011
Trinidad PM Kamla Persad-Bissessar in ‘security threat’
Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar says police have thwarted a plot to…
November 25, 2011
Sex workers say: ‘Tax Us’
It has been called the oldest profession in the world and now head of the Caribbean Association of Sex Workers, Miriam Edwards, says sex workers throughout the region would be willing to pay taxes if respective governments started recognising…
November 25, 2011
Britain and Cayman Islands sign new fiscal responsibility agreement
Britain’s Foreign Office Minister for the Overseas Territories, Henry Bellingham, and McKeeva Bush, premier of the Cayman Islands, signed a framework for fiscal responsibility for the Cayman Islands on Wednesday in London. The framework records…
November 25, 2011
Bahamas PM says Caribbean will follow demands from France
Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham believes that Caribbean countries named by France as tax havens, will have no choice but to comply with the measures outlined by the Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF). “The reality is...the developed…
November 25, 2011
Haiti gets $50 million IDB grant for education
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) announced today the approval of a US$50 million grant to support the education reform Haiti launched in 2010, seeking to expand access to free, quality education for all Haitian children. “The IDB has…
November 25, 2011
France and Germany plan changes to EU treaties
Germany's Angela Merkel and France's Nicolas Sarkozy are to propose modifications to EU…
November 25, 2011
AT&T and T-Mobile USA withdraw merger application
US telecoms giant AT&T and Deutsche Telekom have cast doubt over the $39bn (£25bn) sale of T-Mobile USA by withdrawing their merger application to the industry regulator. AT&T also said it would include a $4bn charge in its fourth-quarter…
November 25, 2011
Barbados steps up business competitiveness with free Wi-Fi
The vision of Barbados as a 24-hour work hub has moved closer to reality as the Barbados Entrepreneurship Foundation (BEF) reports that almost 60 per cent of the island is now wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) accessible. This was the position achieved…