Fox News, Wednesday, September 30, 2009: Empire State Building Goes Red for Communist China, Sparking Protest
NEW YORK —  New York is seeing red over the decision to turn the city’s highest beacon — and one of America’s symbols for free enterprise — into a shining monument honoring China’s communist revolution Wednesday night.
The Empire State Building shone […]

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CNN Money: 25 Best Places to Retire in the US
Thinking about your post-work home? You’ll get huge bang for your buck – plus lots of other perks – in these towns. More

Port Charlotte, FL
Palm Springs, CA
Traverse […]

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Nation News, 9/29/2009: CGI WINS CLICO BID
CONSUMERS GUARANTEE INSURANCE (CGI) Limited of Barbados has won the favour of CLICO Holdings’ board here and in Trinidad and Tobago, to buy the assets of its general insurance company.
The news comes 24 hours after a special committee, headed by Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Finance, William Layne, […]

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Nation News, 9-28-09: CLEARANCE
IN WHAT COULD BE the biggest coup on the local financial landscape this year, Barbados’ largest credit union has beaten out a commercial bank and the country’s largest finance company to win approval to buy CLICO Mortgage & Finance Company Limited (CMFC).

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Update Caribbean360: Injured Stanford back in prison after jailhouse brawl
TEXAS, United States, September 28, 2009 - Sir Allen Stanford is back in prison following a jailhouse fight that landed him in hospital with a concussion and other injuries.
Fox News, 9-26-09: Jailed Billionaire Stanford Injured in Inmate Fight
CONROE, Texas — A U.S. Marshals Service […]

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CNN, 9-25-2009: Explosive evidence from Travolta extortion trial
The trial of two defendants accused of trying to exort $25 million from John Travolta in return for handing over a document relating to the death of the star’s 16-year-old son, Jett, continues in the Bahamas today.
Meanwhile, PEOPLE has watched videotape of conversations recorded by the Royal Bahamas […]

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Caribbean360: Foreign direct investment in the Caribbean declines
GENEVA, Switzerland, September 24, 2009 - Foreign direct investment (FDI) in the Caribbean and Central America declined last year, according to the World Investment Report.
Could the lax enforcement of company law have anything to do with it? Do foreign investors have confidence in the region? If Canadian investors […]

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CLICO Holdings (Barbados) Limited has potential liabilities in many countries. It also has a poor record of filing required financial statements with the corporate registry. Will private investors buy CLICO without adequate disclosure?

CLICO Litigation Is Delaying Payment to Policy Holders
Kaieteur News Online, 2009/09/13: “CLICO destroyed my life!” - Investor

Ramesh Persaud is a policy holder with […]

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According to CNN, Obama has scrapped a bad “Bush” missile defence system, and has replaced it with a better one.
According to the Telegraph, Obama has caved in to Russian pressure. The Eastern Europeans feel betrayed and are downright scared. The Russians are delighted.
Who are we to believe? The Russians were complaining that the Bush-era defense […]

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Pravda (English version), 27.04.2009: American capitalism gone with a whimper
It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.
True, the situation has been well prepared on […]

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