• Three-quarters of a million Rohingya Muslims who fled massacres in Myanmar face a potential health crisis as monsoon season arrives for refugees in Bangladesh. Those who fled violence Myanmar are now endangered by the prospect of disease, landslides, flash floods and death according to Foreign Policy magazine. (“The Rohingya Have Fled One Crisis for Another,” American Prospect, May 15, 2018)
• Trillions of dollars of dark money move though the British territories in the Caribbean. The Panama Papers that exposed global tax havens, revealed hundreds of shell companies in the British Virgin Islands including the Cayman Islands. (“Disclosure in the Caymans: Global walls of financial secrecy are falling,” Christian Science Monitor, May 3, 2018)
• As Amazon made a short list of cities for locating its second corporate headquarters, the retail giant’s home city, Seattle adopted a new head tax on large employers, including Amazon and Starbucks, to fund solutions to Seattle’s escalating housing and homelessness crisis. (“Seattle’s head tax fight goes to the next round,” Seattle Times, May 16, 2018)
