Daily Archives: Apr 27, 2017

HAMILTON, Bermuda, Apr 27, CMC – Three Bermuda Supreme Court judges are now able to sit part-time in the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

WASHINGTON, Apr. 27, CMC – US President Donald Trump has made good on a campaign promise to open an office that deals specifically with assisting what he says are victims of crimes committed by criminal immigrants from the Caribbean and other places.

NEW YORK, Apr. 27, CMC – International credit ratings agency, Moody’s Investors Service on Wednesday downgraded Tobago House of Assembly’s issuer rating to Ba1 (Global Scale, Local Currency) from Baa3 and changed the outlook to stable from negative.

HAMILTON, Bermuda, Apr 27, CMC – Bermuda’s farmers are counting the cost of drought conditions now hitting the island.

Social media company Instagram pulled photos by U.S. photographer Imogen Cunningham promoting an exhibit at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, saying they violated decency standards, even as parent company Facebook Inc faces criticism for users' live videos of murder.

Latvia has granted citizenship to ballet great Mikhail Baryshnikov, who left more than 50 years ago when the Baltic country was still under the Soviet rule.

Jonathan Demme, the eclectic movie director whose work ranged from thrillers like "The Silence of the Lambs" to documentaries on leading musicians, died early on Wednesday of complications from esophageal cancer, his publicist said.

Fox News faces renewed legal claims that it mistreated non-white employees, a week after network parent Twenty-First Century Fox Inc severed ties with its biggest star over unrelated sexual harassment complaints.

Far-right French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen took a fishing-boat ride on Thursday as two polls suggested the underdog had made a more impressive start to the last lap of campaigning than the favourite, centrist Emmanuel Macron.

With the prospect looming of a Middle East peace initiative by a new U.S. administration more sympathetic to Israel, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has decided to turn the screw on the Hamas group that has kept Gaza out of his control for a decade.