{"id":5989,"date":"2011-06-20T10:23:48","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T09:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=5989"},"modified":"2011-06-20T10:25:02","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T09:25:02","slug":"forgotten-world-241-cayman-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=5989","title":{"rendered":"Forgotten World (241): Cayman Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for one of the regular weeks  of postings in  my   long-running series    called Forgotten World \u2013 a  look at parts of the    world that too  rarely   feature in our media or  thoughts. You can check the  previous  240  entries <a href=\"..\/..\/2010\/currentaffairs.shtml\">here<\/a>. I think we&#8217;ll make this the last batch for a series which has been running on this blog for over five years and has covered almost every spot of land on the globe.<\/p>\n<p>Once a dependency of Jamaica, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cayman_islands\">Cayman Islands<\/a> came under direct British rule after Jamaica declared independence in 1962. Granted  greater autonomy under a 1972 constitution, the islands are largely  self-governing and economically self-sufficient. Tourism, banking and property are big money earners, having overtaken  the traditional trades of fishing, turtle hunting and shipbuilding.<\/p>\n<p>More  than 9,000 mutual funds, some 260 banks and 80,000 companies operate  through the islands meaning that the territory has more registered businesses than it has people (about 55,700). The industry has come under scrutiny and the  government has enforced stricter banking regulation to counter money  laundering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for one of the regular weeks of postings in my long-running series called Forgotten World \u2013 a look at parts of the world that too rarely feature in our media or thoughts. You can check the previous 240 entries here. I think we&#8217;ll make this the last batch for a series which has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5989"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6144,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5989\/revisions\/6144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}