ABSTRACT
This chapter presents case histories of some marginal entrepreneurs: Melville Bodden; Evelyn Watler; and Bertram Wood, in order to arrive at some understanding of what economic strategies are available in the current situation to ordinary Caymanians going into business for themselves. The Cayman Islands – Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac, and Little Cayman – were never a plantation society of the familiar Caribbean kind. Caymanian seamen joined American shipping lines, with the result that they stayed away for even longer periods from the territory, in some cases leading to the attenuation of their ties to it. A new era began in the Cayman Islands with the construction of an airport on Grand Cayman in 1953. In the real estate business there are some Caymanians as well as several expatriates. West Bay is the northwesterly settlement on Grand Cayman, at the northern end of the best stretch of beach in the territory.
