 Confidence Men: Offshore Finance and CitizenshipSusan M. Roberts Chapter 5 in Offshore Finance Centres and Tax Havens, 1999, pp 117-139 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: Abstract On Saturday 2 August 1997 the Irish Times carried a story with the headline ‘Cayman Mourns Loss of a Model Citizen’. Two days later the Irish Times ran another story: ‘Masonic Theme at Furze Funeral’. Both stories were accounts of the funeral preparations and ceremony for an expatriate Englishman named John Furze who had died in a Miami hospital four days after a heart operation (Keena, 1997a, 1997b). The funeral was held in George Town, capital of the Cayman Islands — a collection of three small Caribbean islands, which are a British dependency. The funeral was a big one: there were 24 honorary pall-bearers, eulogies from Caymanian politicians and business leaders, and a police escort for the cortège. John Furze was 55 years old when he died, a recently retired banker who had lived the last 30 years of his life in the Cayman Islands. He had visited Ireland only occasionally. Why did the Irish Times run two stories, both in the ‘Home’ (rather than ‘Foreign’) section, on this funeral held on a small island so far away? Keywords: Cayman Island; Model Citizen; Grand Cayman; International Financial System; Irish Time (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-14752-6_5 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-14752-6_5 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan |
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