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  Cayman Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Cayman Islands are an overseas territory of the United Kingdom in the western Caribbean Sea comprising the islands of Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac, and Little Cayman.
The population of the Cayman Islands is 34,763 as of July 2000.
The defence of the Cayman Islands is the responsibility of the United Kingdom.
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 Cayman Islands article - Cayman Islands National motto Official language English Capital George Town - What-Means.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The Cayman Islands are an overseas territory of the United Kingdom in the West Indies, comprising the islands of Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac, and Little Cayman.
The Governor of the islands serves as the British representative and is appointed by Queen Elizabeth II.
The Cayman Islands were severely damaged in a near-miss by the Force Five Hurricane Ivan in September 2004, destroying many building and damaging nearly all.
www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Cayman_Islands   (331 words)

  
 Cayman Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The islands' main industries are tourism and offshore banking, thanks to the absence of direct taxes.
The Cayman Islands are largely self-governed and universal voting rights are granted to all citizens at the age of 18 years.
The island of Grand Cayman was severely damaged by the Category Five Hurricane Ivan in September 2004, destroying many buildings and damaging nearly all.
www.leessummit.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Cayman_Islands   (417 words)

  
 CAYMAN ISLANDS FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The Cayman Islands are an overseas territory of the United_Kingdom in the western Caribbean_Sea comprising the islands of Grand_Cayman, Cayman_Brac, and Little_Cayman.
The islands print their own currency, the Cayman_Islands_Dollar (KYD), which is pegged to the US dollar at a fixed rate of 1 KYD = 1.227 USD.
The Cayman Islands are also world famous as a Scuba_Diving destination because of their proximity to the Cayman_Wall and the Cayman_Trench, which extend deep into the coral reefs of the Caribbean.
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 Cayman Islands   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Cayman Islands Government challenges credibility of UK position in wake of collapse of Euro Bank trial.
The Cayman Islands are completely self-governing and universal voting rights are granted to all citizens at the age of 18 years.
The island of Grand Cayman was severely damaged in a near-miss by the Category Five Hurricane Ivan in September 2004, destroying many buildings and damaging nearly all.
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 U.S. Virgin Islands   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The Virgin Islands of the United States is a group of islands in the Caribbean that is a dependency of the United States.
During the submarine warfare phases of the First World War, the USA feared that these islands might be seized by Germany as a submarine base and accordingly approached Denmark to sell the islands to the USA.
This part of the islands had been in economic decline since the abolition of slavery in 1848.
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 Pitcairn_Islands   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Since a population peak of 233 in 1937, the island is suffering from emigration, primarily to New Zealand, leaving a current population of approximately 47.
The Pitcairn Islands form the southeasternmost extension of the geological archipelago of the Tuamotus of French Polynesia, and consist of five islands: Pitcairn Island, Sandy Island, Oeno Island, Henderson Island, and Ducie Island.
Henderson island, covering about 67% of the territory's total land area, and supporting a rich fauna in its nearly inaccessible interior, is capable of supporting a small human population, but is not at all hospitable to communications with the outside world, its outer shores being comprised of uniformly steep limestone cliffs of razor sharp coral.
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 Faroe_Islands   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Denmark retained possession of the Faroe Islands at the Treaty of Kiel in 1814.
The Faroes and the EU The Faroe Islands are not part of the EU, as explicitly asserted by both Rome treaties.
The Faroe Islands are an island group consisting of 18 islands, off the coast of Northern Europe, between the Norwegian Sea and the north Atlantic Ocean, about one-half of the way from Iceland to Norway.
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 Cayman Islands Chamber of Commerce: About the Cayman Islands
The Cayman Islands consists of a group of three islands in the Caribbean Sea; Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac, and Little Cayman.
Grand Cayman is the biggest and most developed of the three islands.
All three of the Cayman Islands are the exposed, flattened tips of a subsea mountain range known as the Cayman Ridge.
www.caymanchamber.ky /about   (444 words)

  
 Cayman Islands: Report: Part II: Analytic Section / Part III: Prospects
It is the duty of a parent to ensure that any child who is a legal resident of the Cayman Islands between four years nine months and sixteen years old is enrolled in school and attends regularly.
One of the recommendations of the Education Review at the beginning of the decade, commissioned by the Cayman Islands Government and funded in part by the UNDP, was the limiting of the size of schools’ population.
Demographic trends, movement of people from the more crowded George Town was to what might be termed the suburbs, immigration, the school aged dependents of immigrant workers, all impacted on the school population within the space of an academic year.
www2.unesco.org /wef/countryreports/cayman/rapport_1_1.html   (3931 words)

  
 Cayman Islands Chamber of Commerce: About the Cayman Islands: Demographics
The Cayman Islands are located in the western Caribbean, 180 miles northwest of Jamaica and 480 miles south of Miami, Florida.
The Census counted all persons present in the Cayman Islands on Census Day (the “de facto” population) as well as residents abroad providing that they had not been overseas for a continuous period of over 1 year.
The following topics and charts are excerpts from the Report of the Cayman Islands 1999 Population and Housing Census, a complete Census report can be acquired by contacting the Statistics Office located in Elizabethan Square at 345.949.0940 or 345.244.1620.
www.caymanchamber.ky /about/demographics.htm   (302 words)

  
 Cayman Islands Travel Guide :: Caribbean Travel Destination Guide
The Island holds a major position as a financial centre - and then there is tourism too.
Another one-fifth of the island's people are of European descent, one-fifth is African, and the rest are of mixed race.
Saint Martin is a tropical island in the northeast Caribbean, approximately 150 miles east of Puerto Rico.
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 Business America: Cayman Islands; this thriving tiny economy is in the enviable position of being able to pick and ...
CAYMAN ISLANDS This Thriving, Tiny Economy Is in the Envialbe Position Of Being Able to Pick and Choose Foreign Invetments The Cayman Islands, long recognized as a financial center and a scuba divers' paradise, is beginning to tout its advantages as a prime location for productive investment.
In the interest of diversifying from its traditional mainstays, the government and the Cayman Islands Chamber of Commerce recently completed a study of the country's nontraditional investment potential and are taking steps of implement the recommendations of the report.
With its population of some 20,000 fully employed, the Cayman Islands is looking for investment in the expansion of existing Caymanian businesses and the introduction of new technologies which will provide quality employment for the several hundred high school graduates entering the labor force each year.
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 Infrastructure : Insurance Managers Association of Cayman (IMAC)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Electricity on all three islands is 110 volts/60 Hz, the same configuration as the USA and Canada.
Piped, desalinated water is supplied in the islands is serviced by a piped water supply in most areas of Grand Cayman and the western end of Cayman Brac.
The Cayman Islands is currently served by several major U.S. airlines, the national airline (Cayman Airways), and British Airways.
www.caymancaptive.ky /files/cac/pinfrastructure.htm   (453 words)

  
 Cayman Net News: Cayman Islands Triathlon Association names Pozo as Technical Director
He brings to the Cayman Islands considerable experience and expertise in race management, athlete development skills, business development skills and sponsor relationship management.
"In light of these demographics, we see that the Cayman Islands has a very marketable product in the Butterfield triathlon and up to now the only ingredient missing was the expertise to ensure a smooth and suitable growth.
CITA, a not-for-profit entity, is the Governing body for multi-sports in the Cayman Islands, and has more than 250 active participants participating in over 25 events annually.
www.caymannetnews.com /2004/03/614/pozo.shtml   (478 words)

  
 Cayman Islands Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The Cayman Islands are an overseas territory of the United Kingdom in the eastern Caribbean Sea comprising the islands of Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac, and Little Cayman.
Because the Cayman Islands are not subject to direct taxation by the British government, nor are its citizens taxed in any direct way on income, they serve as an international offshore banking hub and tax haven for millions of people and corporations.
Michael Craton and the New Historical Committee (2003) Founded upon the Seas: A History of the Cayman Islands and Their People, Ian Randel Publishers.
www.variedtastes.com /encyclopedia/Cayman_Islands   (1792 words)

  
 Cayman Investment
Cayman Investment information and process on opening a Cayman business, opening a Cayman bank account, buying Cayman property, and other Cayman investment details.
Joining the Cayman Islands Chamber of Commerce is an important first step in establishing yourself in the Cayman business community.
One of the first industries people think about when the Cayman Islands are mentioned are the broad range of financial services.
www.caymaninvestment.com   (828 words)

  
 Stingray Conservation and Ecology
The Cayman Islands are home to two of the world's best known dive and snorkel sites, Stingray City and the Sandbar, where large numbers of southern stingrays (Dasyatis americana) aggregate in response to feeding by dive operators.
To gain a better understanding of stingray biology and aid in conservation efforts, scientists at the GHRI are conducting research on the behavior, reproduction, genetics and population characteristics of the southern stingrays in the Cayman Islands and Caribbean.
Preliminary analysis of stingray DNA suggests that the Cayman stingrays are more closely related to stingrays from the Bahamas and Antigua than to Belize animals.
www.nova.edu /ocean/ghri/stingrayresearch.html   (404 words)

  
 Debra Morris - Employment Law Reform in the Cayman Islands: The Long and Winding Road
Indeed, a case could be made that the absence of trade unions in the Cayman Islands may have had a detrimental affect upon the consultation process attempted by the government in relation to the formulation of the Employment Law.
Due to their unfamiliarity with trade unions, employers in the Cayman Islands may assume them to be wholly negative in impact, leading to industrial unrest, for example.
Cayman Islands Chamber of Commerce, A Report on a Proposal for Establishing New Employment Relations in the Cayman Islands, June 2002.
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The Cayman Islands are an overseas territory of the United Kingdom in the West Indies, comprising the islands of
The Governor of the islands serves as the British representative and is appointed by
The island of Grand Cayman was severely damaged in a near-miss by the Category Five
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 Cayman Islands Investing
Cayman Islands Investing information includes Cayman investment and the process for opening a Cayman business, opening a Cayman bank account, buying Cayman property, and other Cayman investment details.
If you wish to open a bank account or use financial services offered in the Cayman Islands, you will be asked to provide personal information in order to establish and confirm your identity, as required by Cayman law.
Cayman Islands Business directory listings provides details on Cayman business associations and Cayman business organizations.
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 social demographic change
He also describes the 'demographic transition' theory, which is that as living standards and health conditions get better, mortality rates decline, then later fertility rates decline.
World Population Profile: 1998 http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/wp98.html includes a brief discussion of the demographic transition, that is, the change from high birth and death rates to lower rates.
For example, by the 1960's, the more developed regions had completed their demographic transitions, and now the transitions were happening for the less developed regions.
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 cayman islands population information that's hard to find resources - best site we've seen on this topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
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 > Cayman Islands abcworld.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The Capitol and major city of the Cayman Islands is George Town, which is located on the west coast of Grand Cayman.
The islands print their own currency, the Cayman Islands Dollar (KYD), which is pegged to the US dollar at a fixed rate of 1 USD=1.227 CI.
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 Soul Of America - Grand Cayman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The island's tropical climate averages between 70 degrees and 88 degrees.
As a result, the "dress code" is always "island casual." Anytime is a great time of the year to travel here, however, to avoid crowds and high prices, summer is off season.
Currency is the Cayman Islands Dollar with U.S. dollars and major credit cards accepted by most establishments.
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 Grand Cayman Investments
Grand Cayman Investment information and process for opening a Cayman business, opening a Cayman bank account, buying Cayman property, and other Cayman investment details.
The food served in Grand Cayman's large variety of restaurants is fantastic.
Cayman shopping offers many exotic and wonderful items available in George Town and throughout Grand Cayman.
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 CIA - The World Factbook -- Philippines   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The Philippine Islands became a Spanish colony during the 16th century; they were ceded to the US in 1898 following the Spanish-American War.
In 1942 the islands fell under Japanese occupation during WWII, and US forces and Filipinos fought together during 1944-45 to regain control.
Fidel RAMOS was elected president in 1992 and his administration was marked by greater stability and progress on economic reforms.
www.cia.gov /cia/publications/factbook/geos/rp.html   (1429 words)

  
 Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands Country Information
The Island of Heaven, formally known as Cato Island.
The gay rainbow pride flag is the official flag of the Kingdom.
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 CIA - The World Factbook -- Japan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Japan became a regional power that was able to defeat the forces of both China and Russia.
It occupied Korea, Formosa (Taiwan), and southern Sakhalin Island.
Eastern Asia, island chain between the North Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Japan, east of the Korean Peninsula
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