PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad CMC – The state-owned Caribbean Airlines (CAL) has announced the appointment of Canadian Michael DiLollo as its new chief executive officer. DiLollo, who spent 20 years at Air Transat, replaces former CAL executive Robert Corbie who ...
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Neurologist Shares the Science Behind Its Effectiveness Google, eBay, Intel and General Mills offer classes on it. So do Harvard Business School, Ross School of Business and Claremont Graduate University, among other campuses. Mindfulness is not just a corporate trend, ...
Read More »Jamaican Attorney Jailed For Defrauding Canadian Businessman
KINGSTON, Jamaica CMC – An attorney was hauled to jail, on Friday, after the Court of Appeal dismissed his appeal of a two year sentence for defrauding a Canadian businessman of more than US$200,000. Resident Magistrate Shelly Williams in 2012 ...
Read More »Trade Misinvoicing Costs African Countries Billions
By Farangis Abdurazokzoda Africa Correspondent WASHINGTON, DC (IPS) – Misinvoiced trade in five African countries cost their governments billions of dollars in tax revenue and facilitated at least 60.8 billion dollars in illicit financial flows from 2002 to 2011, says ...
Read More »The Marketing Savvy Of Island Sunset’s Sharon Cleghorn
By Dwain Wellington Rattray Pride Contributing Editor The summer of 2012 saw Sharon Cleghorn step out of her role as an accounting professional, to shoulder the responsibility of running Island Sunset Restaurant and Lounge, which her father opened in the ...
Read More »Could Your Mortgage Use A Spring Check-Up?
By Jon McKay Pride Mortgage Agent Now that spring has sprung, it’s a perfect time for your annual mortgage health check-up. If you make time for a quick review each spring, it may yield you some fruitful financial savings. Your ...
Read More »CEOs At Big U.S. Companies Paid 331 Times Average Worker
By Jim Lobe IPS Washington Bureau Chief WASHINGTON, DC (IPS) – In new data certain to fuel the growing public debate over economic inequality, a survey released Tuesday by the biggest U.S. trade-union federation found that the CEOs of top ...
Read More »Managing Your Housing Costs
More than 25 percent of Canadian households spend over the affordability threshold on housing, according to Statistics Canada’s National Household Survey. The threshold, set by the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC), is defined as 30 percent of household income ...
Read More »How To Keep Your Emotions From Dictating Your Financial Future
4 Tips from World-Renowned Financial Advisor You’ve probably heard of emotional eating, but financial advisor Matthew T. Shafer says emotional investing is a problem that needs to be recognized society-wide, especially since the economy has been in such sharp focus ...
Read More »Antigua Government Says LIAT Will Remain Headquartered On The Island
ST. JOHN’S, Antigua CMC – The Antigua and Barbuda government says the regional airline, LIAT, will not be shifting its headquarters to Barbados even as that island’s Tourism Minister Richard Sealy has promised that additional operations of the airline will ...
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