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Nothing to Do:
"When I finished school in 1937, I couldn't get a job in Cayman, apart from chopping maiden plum bush. There were three posts in the Government service and they were filled. I stayed in school for a year helping the teacher because I had nothing to do. In 1945, I gave up and left the country." So said Warren Connolly, later to be the country's first Minister of Tourism, and businessman Brainard Watler remembers the same scenario: "To show you how long this continued," said Watler, "when I came out of school 20 years later it was still as Mr. Warren described it; the economy had not moved one bit. There was no work whatsoever. We went to sea, not because we wanted to but because we had to." |