Kind words from valued friend and client, Tom McCallum of McCallum Solutions. 

This is a classic clip from the archives of The Daily Show, one of my favourite TV programmes from North America (actually its one of the few shows I can stand to watch).  The clip is from back in 2005 and features Ed Helms, best known from last summer's box office comedy smash "The Hangover" (which, if you haven't seen, I highly recommend).  The "banker" in the skit is actually local news anchor and all-round celebrity Cynthia Arie.

In searching for the clip I stumbled upon a blog post by my good friend Tom McCallum who was lucky enough to play host to Ed and the crew during the two day shoot, a lot of which took place at the Reef Resort in East End.

Please remember it's just a skit, posted here strictly for en...

Still waiting for that BMX bike from 1984?  Jack Baeur's got your back.

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The collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 and the resulting global economic fallout continues to impart a strong braking force on the legal recruitment market both in London and the UK regions.
 
Scores of newly qualified solicitors have not been retained upon completion of their training contracts and large numbers of senior associates laid off in the widespread culls of spring 2009 still remain out of work (although for many this has at least given them the unexpected windfall of both time and opportunity for a mid-career gap year traveling the world with the aid of previous years’ healthy bonuses).
 
The market in the Channel Islands remains stubbornly buoyant and resilient in comparison howev...

The International Tax Planning Association recently hosted an event at Grand Cayman's Ritz Carlton Hotel.

Of particular note was Tim Ridley's speech which the Net News covers here, even if their headline Local Financial Services Survive was a bit on the melodramatic side! 

Accountancy Magazine reports the startling news that EY in England has all but abandoned the ICAEW in favour of ICAS and ACCA.  Scottish Accountants (which I am) belonging to the institute (which I do not; I trained with KPMG in England) will no doubt claim it’s evidence of superiority (right Isy?).  I’d love to know what’s really behind that mov...

The IMF recently issued a report on their assessment visit to the Cayman Islands in March.   You can read a good synopsis of the report here.

As reported by the local press, the report appears to say “Cayman works well in class but could do better” (sound familiar Mum?).

Notable by its absence was any reference to a supposed role played by the Cayman Islands in the global financial meltdown which precipitated the current recession.

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Yesterday was the Chamber of Commerce Quarterly Luncheon at the Marriot Hotel on Seven Mile Beach.  The guest speaker was Craig Wright, Chief Economist at the Royal Bank of Canada.  Wright delivered a pitch-perfect speech for around 20 minutes summarising the factors leading to, and hopefully from, the global financial crisis and subsequent recession, barely pausing for breath and with nary a note on the podium.  If I were Joe 90, this guy would be right at the top of my kidnap list.

His comments on the global economy were no surprise to any regular reader of The Economist.  *** SPOILER ALERT***  All...

I’ve decided to start writing a blog.  Of course, if you’re reading this, you probably already noticed.  And if you’ve made it this far I’ve achieved my first objective: to get at least one person to read beyond the very first sentence.  Yes, I set the bar low and yes, I made the sentences short.  I’m new to this, it’s daunting and I needed an easy win.

So what, you may ask, has inspired me to ascend to the blogosphere?  

Last month we attended the OnRec Expo 2009 in Chicago.  This annual event brings top recruiters from all over the world to share news about the latest and greatest recruitment practices, trends, companies and products.  But this year&rsq...

As Europe begins to thaw out following the big freeze that has brought much of it to a standstill recently, the job market in the Cayman Islands has begun to follow suit. 2009 saw an unprecedented ‘freeze’ on recruitment, bringing to an end a 3yr period of sustained growth throughout the majority of Financial Services firms on the Islands. Most optimists however, (myself included) predicted that the new year would bring new opportunity and thus far that has appeared to be true.
 
As we bring to a close the second full business week of this new decade, things are looking very positive for the year ahead. We have seen an increase in demand for temporary Accounting staff along with a couple of n...