In one of the more left-field corporate appointments Genoil, the Caribbean oil and gas group, has named Emile Heskey, the former Liverpool and England footballer, to lead the company’s business development in the region, including raising finance for the reconstruction of islands hit by Hurricane Irma. “The vision of the company is to build a strong environmentally focused desulfurisation and heavy oil business that is based on our unique technology,” the former striker declared. I will leave it to you, dear reader, to ask whether that quote sounds like the sort of thing that Emile William Ivanhoe Heskey, famous for his inability to hit a barn door, would ever say. Busting into tearsEye-watering financial returns are nothing new in the world of hedge funds,…

Source: The Times November 23, 2018 00:00 UTC