La diplomacia china suma votos en el Caribe
La diplomacia china suma votos en el Caribe
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El presidente Xi Jinping ha estrechado vínculos solo con aquellas naciones que reconocen el principio de “una sola China”
La diplomacia china suma votos en el Caribe
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El presidente Xi Jinping ha estrechado vínculos solo con aquellas naciones que reconocen el principio de “una sola China”
La escasez en Venezuela llega a las vacunas contra la gripe AH1N1
La escasez en Venezuela llega a las vacunas contra la gripe AH1N1
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El Gobierno no quiere dar cifras de afectados y muertos pero se calcula que el brote ha causado más de 20 fallecidos
La escasez en Venezuela llega a las vacunas contra la gripe AH1N1
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El Gobierno no quiere dar cifras de afectados y muertos pero se calcula que el brote ha causado más de 20 fallecidos
ST GEORGE’S, Grenada (CMC) – The Grenada government says it has started paying public workers salary increases five years after their last hike in wages.
WESTMORELAND, Jamaica - Thirty-year-old Nicholas Whyte, otherwise called ‘Ziggy’ was fatally shot during a confrontation with cops at about 8:20 am this morning in Little London, Westmoreland, the police have reported.
ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, Jun 3, CMC –Leaders Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) are meeting here on Monday with the in-coming chairman of the of the sub-regional grouping calling for a special retreat in August to discuss the socio-economic problems facing the nine-member grouping.
Caribbean urged to be prepared for “very active” hurricane season
Caribbean360.com BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Monday June 3, 2013 – The 2013 Atlantic hurricane season officially began on Saturday June 1, and the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Management Agency (CDEMA) has urged Caribbean people to be prepared for a ... |
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Archbishop Harris speaking with reporters following a special mass at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Pro-Cathedral in San Fernando, on Sunday, said that he is not perturbed at the criticism levelled at him.
#PReconomy now in red for fiscal 2013 after fifth straight monthly contraction..... by Puerto Rico Business News
#PReconomy now in red for fiscal 2013 after fifth straight monthly contraction....
#PReconomy now in red for fiscal 2013 after fifth straight monthly contraction. Read: http://ow.ly/lElQB#caribbeanbusiness
#PReconomy now in red for fiscal 2013 after fifth straight monthly contraction....
#PReconomy now in red for fiscal 2013 after fifth straight monthly contraction. Read: http://ow.ly/lElQB#caribbeanbusiness
#PReconomy now in red for fiscal 2013 after fifth straight monthly contraction....
"The houses were chiller, the parties were bigger, the nights were longer and the Thursdays were thirstier."
It's not exactly Fitzgerald, but it works for "The Great Fratsby," a spoof of "The Great Gatsby" put together by a group of University of California-Los Angeles students.
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It's not exactly Fitzgerald, but it works for "The Great Fratsby," a spoof of "The Great Gatsby" put together by a group of University of California-Los Angeles students.
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A Los Angeles man who identifies as both gay and transgender was the victim of an alleged hate crime over the weekend.
CBS Los Angeles reports that 22-year-old Victor Diego was allegedly attacked May 30 while leaving his job at Beso Restaurant in Hollywood. Diego's sister Virginia told the news station that her brother sustained two fractured rips, a shattered cheekbone and a broken jaw after being jumped by a group of men.
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CBS Los Angeles reports that 22-year-old Victor Diego was allegedly attacked May 30 while leaving his job at Beso Restaurant in Hollywood. Diego's sister Virginia told the news station that her brother sustained two fractured rips, a shattered cheekbone and a broken jaw after being jumped by a group of men.
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Here's a rundown of all the things you wish you could say right to your roommate's face for having the sheer audacity to live with you.
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By Tom Bergin
LONDON, June 3 (Reuters) - Bermuda is not to blame for companies such as Google using Bermudan subsidiaries to shelter billions of dollars from U.S. and European tax authorities, the territory's finance minister said on Monday.
Google has come under fire from British lawmakers for channelling billions of dollars a year through an Irish subsidiary to a Dutch sister company which then passes the money to another affiliate in Bermuda.
The use of such complex structures is common among multinationals, including Apple and Amazon, and has become a hot political topic on both sides of the Atlantic.
However, Bermuda Finance Minister Bob Richards insisted that the territory has not intentionally facilitated such profit shifting and gains little from the Bermuda-registered affiliates.
"Bermuda is not a tax haven," he said in a Reuters interview. "We didn't pass a law to say that the Googles of this world don't get taxed."
The self-governed British Overseas Territory has no personal or corporate income taxes because these are expensive taxes to administer, so focuses instead on taxing consumption and employment, Richards said.
Big developed countries such as Britain have also increasingly shifted the tax burden to consumption, from income, in recent years.
Google's Bermudan subsidiary has no full-time staff and Richards said that such nameplate companies are not important to the economy.
The company, meanwhile, has said that it complies with tax law in every country where it operates.
Richards said it was impractical for Bermuda to change its tax rules to stop corporate profit shifting and that it is the responsibility of other countries to tackle the situation.
BLAME GAME
"The issue here is the tax laws of the G5, G8 (groups of big economies)," he said. "It's not the tax laws of Bermuda .. It's easy to blame dots on the map."
Richards said that countries such as the United States and Britain should get their own house in order before criticising Bermuda.
"Those in glass houses should not throw stones. One of the biggest tax havens in the world is the state of Delaware. Everybody knows that. Some people would even call the City of London a tax haven," he said.
Delaware applies less stringent reporting requirements on companies than some other U.S. states and European countries. This has allowed Delaware to become a major centre for corporate registrations.
Tax campaigners say that British governments have shied away from tough action on tax evasion and fraud because of fears that it could limit flows of cash into the City of London, a key driver of the economy and tax revenues.
Britain has been pressing its Overseas Territories, which also include the British Virgin Islands and Cayman Islands, to share more information to combat tax evasion.
Bermuda has already agreed to the automatic sharing of taxpayer information and collects information on beneficial ownership of companies registered there.
These measures, Richards said, mean that Britain's latest initiatives are unlikely to make the territory less attractive for investment.
He said that Bermuda was also untroubled by recent changes to tax legislation aimed at making Britain a more attractive base for the insurance industry.
Richards said he expected Bermuda's strength in this area - encouraged by low taxes and less onerous regulation than in the United States - would endure because the islands had built up a "nexus" of knowledge.
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* Most vulnerable countries include Cyprus, Spain, Italy
* Risk has declined in Belgium, Germany, Slovakia
* Gap between top and middle incomes set to widen
By Robert Evans
GENEVA, June 3 (Reuters) - The potential for social unrest in European Union countries is higher than anywhere else in the world and the already yawning gaps between rich and poor, a major trigger, are likely to widen globally, the International Labour Organisation said on Monday.
In its annual World of Work Report, the ILO said social unrest - strikes, work stoppages, street protests and demonstrations - had increased in most countries since the economic and financial crisis that began in 2008.
But the risk, it said, "is highest among the EU-27 countries - it increased from 34 percent in 2006-07 to 46 percent in 2011-2012." However, the risk was not evenly spread and had not grown in at least seven of the member states.
Those most vulnerable, the report said, were Cyprus, Czech Republic, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Slovenia and Spain. However the risk of social unrest had declined in Belgium, Germany, Finland, Slovakia and Sweden since 2010.
Overall, the risk of unrest in the EU "is likely to be due to the policy responses to the ongoing sovereign debt crisis and their impact on people's lives and perceptions of well-being." the United Nations agency said.
"This bleak economic scenario has created a fragile social environment as fewer people see opportunities for obtaining a good job and improving their standard of living."
The risk of social unrest had also risen in Russia and non-EU countries of the former communist bloc, as well as in South Asia and in advanced economies outside the EU.
But it had declined in Latin America and the Caribbean, where governments had followed employment-boosting policies, in the growing economies of sub-Saharan Africa and in East and in South-East Asia and the Pacific.
GROWING WEALTH GAP
The ILO said it based its findings on correlating economic growth and income levels with inflation, unemployment, debt as a share of economic output or GDP, and income inequality -- all factors which influence levels of social tension.
Government austerity policies of the last few years had been accompanied since 2010 by increasing wage inequalities in which middle-income groups' revenues declined and those of top salary earners began to grow again, it declared.
Across the richer countries, profit margins for larger companies were rising, as reflected in booming stock markets, and were now at levels similar to those of the immediate pre-crisis years, the ILO said.
"But rather than putting these profits to work through productive investment in the real economy, increased revenues have more often been channeled towards higher cash holdings," the agency said.
Global unemployment rates were also expected to rise, the report said. In the EU and other developed countries the real employment rate, taking into account the growth in the working-age population, was unlikely to recover until 2018 to the level at which it stood before the crisis. (Editing by Raissa Kasolowsky)
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And it uses it at times to further criminalize the political prisoners and/or our families and to disconnectus from our families, communities, supporters and the just and noble causes we served and try to continue serving.” -Oscar López Rivera1. Introduction. In the 1960′s and 70′s, the Puerto Rican community in Chicago, like so many other communities in the United States, was rebelling, resisting the violence and brutality of colonialism, racism, and exploitation.
Police allowed to take DNA sample upon arrest, US Supreme Court rules
Bangor Daily News Samples taken from convicted felons are routinely submitted to the national database and that practice was not an issue in the case. Every other state in the country, plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, signed on to a brief in support of ... and more » |
State-based drug tracking puts Americans at riskby ckulat@thehill.com (Gregory Conko)
When consumers take prescription and over-the-counter drugs — as more than half of all Americans do each month — they expect those medicines to improve their health, not harm it.
Yet ineffective counterfeit drugs for pain, attention deficit disorder, erectile dysfunction and even the flu have all been recently discovered in U.S. pharmacies. And in the past year, the Food and Drug Administration has had to issue multiple warnings about fake cancer drugs that have penetrated the supply chain. When even a tiny fraction of the medications we rely on are faulty, contaminated, or counterfeit, the health of millions is put at risk.
Yet ineffective counterfeit drugs for pain, attention deficit disorder, erectile dysfunction and even the flu have all been recently discovered in U.S. pharmacies. And in the past year, the Food and Drug Administration has had to issue multiple warnings about fake cancer drugs that have penetrated the supply chain. When even a tiny fraction of the medications we rely on are faulty, contaminated, or counterfeit, the health of millions is put at risk.
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