| Headline: Banker shoots the breeze in the teeth of a gale Source: Euromoney Date: December 2001
Miraculously, given the number of locals and tourists who lined the seafront to watch 20-foot-high waves crashing into shops, the National Museum and the Hard Rock Café, there were no fatalities, although the costs to the tourism industry were unprecedented. Nor was there any damage to the islands’ banks, most of which have the good sense to locate themselves well away from the shoreline. Hurricane Michelle was not the only external influence to have subdued the Cayman Islands at the start of November. This is the time when the islanders generally celebrate Pirates’ Week, a seven-day jamboree that begins with the ritual kidnapping of the governor of the British crown colony by bankers and tourists dressed as 17th-century cut-throats and ends with an extravagant fireworks display. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||