By Bevan Springer

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (May 14, 2008) - The Diaspora represents a multi-million dollar opportunity for the Caribbean, and maximizing the financial, intellectual and creative potential of this market will take center stage when Counterpart International's Caribbean Media Exchange on Sustainable Tourism (CMEx) opens at the Holiday Inn in Isla Verde, Puerto Rico on Thursday, May 15 under the theme "Embracing the Diaspora, Connecting Communities."

Ex-NFL and NBA Players team up with Jamaica football stars to conduct inspiring sports clinics for young people
 
MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica (April 29, 2008) - The sporting genius of Jamaicans is admirable and should be developed into educational opportunities, said former professional NBA basketball player Zack Jones who is currently in Jamaica conducting sporting clinics in the Montego Bay area.

London, Monday 28 April 2008: As companies expand globally, outsource business operations and add new IT systems, they become more vulnerable to fraud, according to a report from Kroll, the world’s leading risk consulting company.

The latest Kroll Global Fraud Report highlights the growing danger of supply chain fraud to businesses worldwide. Large companies have increasingly become “extended enterprises” as they have globalised, outsourced, re-engineered their business processes, brought business partners and vendors closer and specialised their functions. The result makes them more complex and leaves them vulnerable to an array of frauds ranging from simple theft, to the misrepresentation of inventory to fool investors, through to counterfeiting, grey market diversion and piracy

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica (April 28, 2008) - Some US$5 million worth of medical equipment, supplies and health care will be delivered free of charge to the people of Jamaica this week by 80 medical volunteers from the San Diego-based Miles Ahead organization who arrived in Montego Bay on Saturday.
   
The medical team of specialist doctors, pediatricians, surgeons and dentists will donate their services to local communities, in close collaboration with Jamaica's Ministry of Health, at four mobile clinics as 200 more volunteers, in conjunction with local churches and community organizations, conduct sports clinics, deaf education workshops, school assemblies and rebuild local elementary schools.