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The Cayman Islands are a Caribbean British overseas territory that have been under various governments since their discovery by Europeans.

Christopher Columbus sighted the Cayman Islands on May 10, 1503 and named them Las Tortugas after the numerous sea turtles seen swimming in the surrounding waters.

The first recorded permanent inhabitant of the Cayman Islands, Isaac Bodden, was born on Grand Cayman around 1700.

These first settlements were abandoned after attacks by Spanish privateers, but English privateers often used the Cayman Islands as a base and in the 18th century they became an increasingly popular hideout for pirates, even after the end of legitimate privateering in 1713.

The Cayman Islands historically have been popular as a tax haven.

From 1670, the Cayman Islands were effective dependencies of Jamaica, although there was considerable self-government.

In 1959, upon the formation of the Federation of the West Indies the dependency status with regards to Jamaica ceased officially although the Governor of Jamaica remained the Governor of the Cayman Islands and had reserve powers over the Islands.

Upon Jamaica's independence in 1962, the Cayman Islands broke its administrative links with Jamaica and opted to become a direct dependency of the British Crown, with the chief official of the islands being the Administrator.

In 1953 the first airfield in the Cayman Islands was opened as well as the George Town Public hospital.

In 1971 the governmental structure of the Islands was again changed with a Governor now running the Cayman Islands.

Athel Long CMG, CBE was the last Administrator and the first Governor of the Cayman Islands.

Although all administrative links with Jamaica were broken in 1962, the Cayman Islands and Jamaica continue to share many links and experiences, including membership in the Commonwealth of Nations ( and Commonwealth citizenship ) and a common united church ( the United Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands ) and Anglican diocese ( although there is debate about this ) as well as a common currency ( until 1972 ).

Also, by 1999, 38-40 % of the population of the Cayman Islands was of Jamaican origin and in 2004 / 2005 little over 50 % of the expatriates working in the Cayman Islands ( i. e. 8, 000 ) were Jamaicans ( with the next largest expatriate communities coming from the United States, United Kingdom and Canada ).

Caymanian folklore explains that the island's first inhabitants were a Welshman named Walters ( or Watler ) and his companion named Bawden ( or Bodden ), who first arrived in Cayman in 1658 after serving in Oliver Cromwell's army in Jamaica.

In November 1794, ten vessels, which were part of a convoy escorted by HMS Convert, were wrecked on the reef in Gun Bay, on the East end of Grand Cayman, but with the help of local settlers, there was no loss of life.

In September 2004, The Cayman Islands were hit by Hurricane Ivan, causing mass devastation, loss of human and animal life ( both wild and domestic / livestock ) and flooding, with some accounts reporting that 25 % or more of Grand Cayman had been underwater and with the lower floors of buildings being completely flooded.

Although many Caribbean islands were initially populated by Amerindian groups such as the Arawaks, Tainos, and Caribs, no evidence of this has been found in the Cayman Islands.

The Cayman Islands ' physical isolation under early British colonial rule allowed the development of an indigenous set of administrative and legal traditions which were codified into a constitution in 1959.

More than 40, 000 companies were registered in the Cayman Islands as of 2000, including almost 600 banks and trust companies, with banking assets exceeding $ 500 billion.

Although in its early days, the Cayman Islands ' most important relationships were with Britain and Jamaica, in recent years, this has shifted, and they now rely more so on the United States and Canada.

While it was able to establish itself on some islands, such as Barbados, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico, other introductions, such as in Cuba before 1900 and in 1946, and on the islands of Dominica and Grand Cayman, were unsuccessful.

Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, the single most important carrier of dengue fever, were reduced by 80 % in a 2010 trial of these GM mosquitoes in the Cayman Islands.

The Cayman Islands were the leading location, accounting for 34 % of the number of global hedge funds.

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Its two holding companies were based in Luxembourg and the Cayman Islands — two jurisdictions where banking regulation was notoriously weak.

Even in the Cayman Islands ( where it only occurs in winter ), Bananaquits were noted to die of an apparent heart attack or stroke, without being physically harmed, when a Merlin went at them and they could not escape.

Even though the West Indies was spread across such a vast area, most of its provinces were mostly contiguous and clustered fairly close together in the Eastern Caribbean, with the obvious exceptions of Jamaica, the Cayman Islands, and Turks and Caicos Islands.

The exceptions were Anguilla, Antigua, Barbuda, the Cayman Islands, the Turks and Caicos Islands ( which are all fairly flat ), and Trinidad ( which has a large mountain range in the north and a small central mountain range in the interior of the otherwise flat island ).

A fully operational Cayman Enterprise City officially launched on Friday, 3 February 2012.

The church is officially established in the following countries and territories: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, the Cayman Islands, Chile, Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Côte d ' Ivoire ( Ivory Coast ), Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Fiji, France, French Polynesia, Germany, Guam, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, India, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Korea, Liberia, Malawi, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Papua New Guinea, Peru, the Philippines, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Republic of China ( Taiwan ), Ukraine, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Venezuela, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

The Flag of the Cayman Islands was adopted on 14 May 1958 after the colony was officially granted a coat-of-arms.

Cayman Islands Tourism confirmed on March 8, 2008 that NFL officially discontinued the competition indefinitely.

Upon becoming a tropical storm on October 9, the government of the Cayman Islands declared a tropical storm warning for all of the islands.

Until 1962, the Cayman Islands were administered as a dependency of Jamaica.

Cayman ceased to be a dependency of Jamaica.

The Cayman Islands are a British dependency and island country.

The population of the Cayman Islands reflects its status as a British overseas territory, its history as a former dependency of Jamaica, and its present financial partnerships with the United States and other countries.

However, records from the colonial era indicate that Cayman Islands, then a dependency of Jamaica, was not tax-exempt during the period that followed.