I’m in my usual sweaty, overcrowded, noisy Jamaican/Bahamian cyber cafe and DVD pirating shop, after a strange day. First off, I had a meeting with a lawyer specializing in offshore work. Her offices are in the building adjoining the Hilton Hotel, Nassau’s finest. I won’t give her name, because I got the introduction through the Ministry of Tourism, and I don’t want to offend anyone. As James explained yesterday, if you want anything done here, you gotta bribe people; then you really can get ANYthing done... Let’s just say that this was a pretty swanky firm of lawyers, and their suite of offices was plush, so plush that it seemed almost impossible that the squalor that I had seen yesterday could be just a two minute drive away. I wanted to find out about offshore companies
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