Archives for Monday, February 9, 2004:

Anti-Aristide violence spreads

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): Violent opposition to President Jean Bertrand Aristide spread across Haiti on Sunday, with protesters setting barricades ablaze while corpses were left in the streets as rebels besieged local police stations... read more...

Cayman Islands reported to have signed on to EU Tax Directive

LONDON, England: The UK's position on the EU tax directive about sharing information on savings has been bolstered by a conditional commitment last week from the Cayman Islands to comply with its terms, the Financial Times reported Sunday... read more...

Haitian government accuses opposition of coup plot

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): Haitian Prime Minister Yvon Neptune on Sunday accused opposition groups of trying to mount a coup to overthrow the government... read more...

Documents on Parmalat's Cayman companies go missing in New York

NEW YORK, USA: Documents related to Bonlat, the Parmalat subsidiary based in the Cayman Islands which falsely claimed to have US$4.9 billion in a Bank of America account, as well as paperwork relating to Epicurum, which Parmalat last November claimed was a Cayman Islands mutual fund in which it had invested $600 million, may have been removed from the offices of Zini & Associates in New York or destroyed prior to a search by investigators... read more...

Caribbean communicators participate in Montreal summit

MONTREAL, Canada: President of the Caribbean chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) Gerry McDaniel and the organisation's E-Communication Director Othniel Harris traveled to the French Canadian city of Montreal this past Friday, February 6 to participate in the deliberations of IABC's Canada District 2 Board (CD2)... read more...