Today, we return to our adventure across the seas to another British Overseas Territories: the British Virgin Islands (BVI). This jurisdiction is the grandfather of all IBCs and continues to play an important and controversial role in the international financial services sector. History As with much of the Caribbean, history…
Time to take a look at another British Overseas Territory: Anguilla. History Anguilla was likely settled as early as 2000 BC, when settlers from the Orinoco basin in modern-day Brazil explored the Caribbean islands. The name Anguilla is attributed to a French explorer, who likely landed in the island in 1565, naming…
Time to take a look at a British Overseas Territory: Turks and Caicos Islands (often just Turks and Caicos, or shortened TCI), a group of eight large and several smaller islands south of The Bahamas. Turks and Caicos have quite an interesting history which sheds light on the history of The…
In this article — the sixth article in the Jurisdiction Spotlight series — I will be focusing on the Country of Curaçao. History Curaçao’s very early history is poorly recorded. By the time the first European settlers arrived, the island was inhabited by the Arawak people, a collection of indigenous Caribbean…