Besides writing my blogs once or twice a week, I also post brief informational items in several Web forums about aspects of life in Cayman –...

According to the World Bank’s database, Cayman’s literacy rate is 98.87%, for residents aged fifteen and over. At least that was the rate in...

I’ve been putting Cayman’s name out there, lately, on a few Internet forums. There’s not all that much name-recognition, to be honest. We te...

For a voter in George Town, it’s been nice to have had four votes in general elections all these years. I understand that as the proposed El...

For as far back as I can remember into the 1940s, a newspaper photo of Winston Churchill was stuck to the door of the kitchen fridge on our ...

Seventh travelogue for the granddaughters – December 1964 In the middle of winter, well out of the tourist season, we were just about the ...

Linda and I sometimes wonder what will happen to our house when we’re gone. Our son will inherit it, and his children after him if he leaves...

It’s common practice for governments (national, provincial, municipal, parish) to pledge their expected future revenues as security for borr...

 Everybody saves for retirement, some more carefully than others. Some of us rely on government pensions to sustain us in our retirement, s...

(The sixth in my series of travel stories for the granddaughters – November 1964)  The old peasant woman, comfortable in the passenger sea...