My post The Children of Israel , January 2012, suggested a more plausible origin of the tribe than the Books of Moses did. The famous escap...

There are several earlier posts on this blog criticising education in Cayman – Indentured Servitude in January 2011, Bamboozled and Tribal...

An expat is someone who lives in a foreign country, right? And an immigrant is one who lives in a foreign country until it’s his home and no...

A recent post of mine ( Lunching with the Stars ) harked back to The Good Old Days of the tax-haven in Nassau, Bahamas, and my youthful part...

Not long after our family’s working vacation in The Big Apple, I bumped into Ian in the supermarket. “I’m just back from Singapore on busine...

Among my trust company’s international clients in Nassau 1967-70 were rich and famous authors and movie stars. When they visited, they alway...

Backpackers were so rare in Kuwait during the ten days we were there that the English-language radio station sought me out for an interview,...

My son, who works in Oslo, was on his company’s short-list for a free trip to Svalbard/Spitzbergen last year, and was disappointed to miss o...

According to most reports in the mainstream media, Offshore tax-havens siphon off trillions of dollars every year that high-tax nations woul...

In a blog-post of mine back in September last year (2011 – House of Cards ) I wondered whether Britain might be preparing to pull the plug o...