{"id":3346,"date":"2017-04-01T01:00:37","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T06:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/?p=3346"},"modified":"2017-03-31T19:04:06","modified_gmt":"2017-04-01T00:04:06","slug":"cayman-prepares-its-own-brexit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/?p=3346","title":{"rendered":"Cayman prepares it’s own Brexit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many locals have been following the whole UK “Brexit” from the European Union with much interest. \u00a0Its widely known that the Queen has waning influence in the island and that some local politicians are looking north, about 500 miles north for new opportunities in the wake of the UK’s historic departure from the EU!<\/p>\n

So it was announced two days ago that a closer link to the US will be sought after – ideally joining NAFTA – the free trade deal between the US, Mexico & Canada. That deal is currently being renegotiated so the timing to get Cayman included in the deal was right. \u00a0In fact, during one of US President Trump’s week-ends at his Florida estate, he came for a series of quick meetings with local officials to indicate his support in including the Cayman Islands in the Free trade agreement, stating that he loves our local Rum and Stingray City.<\/p>\n

Here is the President with the local minister of foreign affairs, Bobby Conner. \u00a0Things are sure looking up for Cayman exports!<\/p>\n

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In future years, there is room for negotiation on Cayman getting a status not unlike the US Virgin Islands as a sort of “Quasi US state”. \u00a0It makes sense, we already use the US$ so we already have a foot in the door so to say. \u00a0That would also allow major chains such as McDonald’s, Walmart and Hooters to open stores in Cayman.<\/p>\n

According to local reports, the second wave of the negotiations to become part of the USA will start on April 1st. 2018 – next April Fools<\/strong> day \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many locals have been following the whole UK “Brexit” from the European Union with much interest. \u00a0Its widely known that the Queen has waning influence in the island and that some local politicians are looking north, about 500 miles north for new opportunities in the wake of the UK’s historic departure from the EU! So […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living-in-cayman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3346"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3349,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3346\/revisions\/3349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}