Barlow's Cayman
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I am a longtime expat resident of the Cayman Islands in the British West Indies. If you're rich, you will recognise the place as an "offshore" tax haven; if you're poor, it's a divers' paradise. I began writing a blog on local topics, written for a local audience, but after a while I spread my wings to cover issues of general and international interest. It is not always read with pleasure by our local rulers, who generally operate a censorship regime in respect of expatriates. (People intending to live in Cayman ought to read my blog's archives to find out what awaits them.) Sometimes, for a change, I write about my travels in Europe and the Middle East in the 1960s, and about historical topics. www.barlowscayman.blogspot.com
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Cayman’s politics of exclusion
Posted on 12/05/2013
An old chum from my school days in the bush went into politics later, and for ten years represented our local electorate in the Australian Federal Parliament. It was a safe Country Party...
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Unsafe custody – how some banks stay alive
Posted on 07/05/2013
Ever since Central Banks began topping up selected banks’ cash reserves to prevent them from going broke, the likelihood of rampant price-inflation has flourished. So far, it has...
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France – a love affair
Posted on 05/05/2013
International Driving Permits are valid for twelve months, and I must have bought mine just before leaving Australia in 1963. When it expired, I was in the middle of France with Chris and...
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Me and Miss Ohio
Posted on 25/04/2013
When I think back to my travelling days in the ‘60s, I sometimes wonder where all the money came from. Not where it went. I know where it went, pretty much.There must have been more...
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Cayman’s election candidates
Posted on 16/04/2013
What a fiasco our election process is! 25 candidates are standing in George Town for its six LA seats out of 18, and we voters haven’t got a clue what any of the 25 might do if they...
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Terrorists and patriots
Posted on 11/04/2013
When half of Britain’s North American colonies rebelled against the Empire in the 18th Century, the king and his minions classified the rebels as terrorists; those in each colony who...
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How to balance a budget
Posted on 31/03/2013
The process of “zero-based budgeting” is familiar to everybody who has ever been involved in starting a private business, and to most people who have bought existing businesses....
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Cyprus and Cayman
Posted on 26/03/2013
So. Creditors of Cyprus’s banks and government have destroyed the country’s Offshore finance sector, and probably the entire economy. Until last week, not everybody in Cayman...
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Bullying and bad manners
Posted on 23/03/2013
The difference between bad manners and bullying is only a matter of degree, when you think about it. Speaking on a cellphone during a meeting is bad manners, shouting on one (except in...
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1984 revisited – “Airstrip One”
Posted on 12/03/2013
This is my second post called “1984 revisited”. The first, in November 2010, complained about the American TSA’s operations against passengers in US airports, specifically...
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