Barlow's Cayman
Thursday, January 27, 2011

Apples And Oranges (comparisons with Cayman)

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My column in this weekend’s Cayman Net News expresses some disdain for our local custom of comparing Cayman with Britain, the USA or some o...
Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Cayman's Culture

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McKeeva’s “CaymanKind” idea isn’t a bad one. It just doesn’t go far enough. Tourists in the Caribbean region often have bad experiences, eve...
Friday, January 14, 2011

Indentured Servitude in Cayman

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Discussing the prospect of a formal minimum wage in my Cayman Net News column this weekend, I point out the absurdity of such a thing in Ca...
Friday, January 7, 2011

Cayman's Anti-Immigrant Lobby

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Our MLAs are all captives of the anti-immigrant lobby, and likely to remain so. That means there is no hope that our Islands’ official hosti...
Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Criminal Violence (in Cayman)

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Our community disapproves of criminal violence, at least in our home territory, at least when the victims are people like us. Let the drugs ...
Monday, December 27, 2010

Leaders And Followers (Cayman politics)

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One of the most irritating things about our local politics is that people are always begging for leadership. Why do they do that? Small town...
Wednesday, December 22, 2010

More Immigrants, Please! (Cayman needs them)

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McKeeva and his advisors are absolutely right in asserting that Cayman needs more immigrants. Without a higher population, our economy will ...
Friday, December 17, 2010

Bearing Arms (Cayman's guns and criminals)

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The right to bear arms is an American concept, dating from the colonial rebellion against Britain. In the earliest days, armed individuals p...
Thursday, December 9, 2010

The Last Crusade (religious bigotry)

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I receive way, way too many mass-circulation e-mails critical of Muslims and their religion. Real hate mail. Apparently they all want to mak...
Thursday, December 2, 2010

Everybody's Cheating (Cayman's protectionism)

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Sooner or later, our politicians will have to take the brakes off private-sector productivity. Government’s labour-control policies make our...
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