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Sunny Places: How Journalists Misinform the Public

“A sunny place for shady people”. It’s a statement that has been used to describe the beachfront locales across the globe that the public has come to associate with crime: places like Bermuda, Monaco, and the Cayman Islan...
by Donovon Kellyman
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Canada

Legislating Common Sense: Canada’s Lesson on Managing Growth

Just this week, Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, and Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney announced plans that make it harder for Canadians to own a home. The average Canadian might not like the g...
by Donovon Kellyman
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North America

Bringing Stability Back to Jamaica’s Finances

Fiscal reform is never fun, even less so when it comes as an eleventh-hour necessity. For Caribbean states especially, “fiscal reform” is hissed in the public sector as the foulest Jamaican bad word. Nowhere does this ri...
by Donovon Kellyman
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North America

Banks and Beaches: 40 Years of Banking and Finance in the Cayman Islands

When one hears a reference to the Cayman Islands, it is normally in connection with criminal activity: drugs, money laundering, and tax evasion. This tiny territory in the western Caribbean has earned quite a reputation – one...
by Donovon Kellyman
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