Living In An Offshore Tax-Haven
People usually expect “offshore” tax-havens to be wonderfully exotic places. But in reality, they’re not. Linda and I have lived in three…
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A Trip To The Supermarket In Cayman
I’ve been making the same trip to the supermarket the whole thirty-seven years we’ve lived in Cayman. Well, pretty much. Until 1997…
Read more →Fifty Shades Of Green In The Cayman Islands
The poinciana trees are starting to flower now, and Cayman is transformed. I’ve never considered this a pretty island, except at this…
Read more →Unemployment in Cayman
Despite its large Public Revenue – US$700 million for a population of 50,000 – Cayman has generally low educational standards – the…
Read more →Censorship In The Cayman Islands
It’s an axiom of human-rights theory, that without freedom of speech, no other freedoms can be guaranteed. As an English colony since…
Read more →When Gross Salary Equalled Net Salary In The Caymans
For the first 25 years or so after we left Canada in 1967, Linda & I received our respective salaries free of…
Read more →Leaving Home
Cayman’s earliest settlers would have come by boat – some time in the early 1600s – from Jamaica or Cuba. There is…
Read more →Trouble In Paradise
Our Islands are in trouble, following the latest political upheaval. It seems likely that our most charismatic politician, our recently dismissed Premier,…
Read more →Blogging For Fun And Non-Profit
We who have our own blogsites know how fascinating it is to read the statistics section. Mine is a blogspot.com freebie (a…
Read more →Shelter From The Storm
The more we (Linda and I) think about an emergency bolthole to escape a worldwide economic collapse, the more we wonder if…
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