The law was made permanent in 2011 but there are still havens for this activity, such as Channel Islands and The British Virgin Isles.

What do you think will happen to them if we apply an arbitrary new tax to them, and (say) the British Virgin Isles do not?

Since there are more bunks bobbing at sea than hotel rooms in the British Virgins, the fees are considered a room tax.

He was one of two British Virgin Islanders participating in a track and field event and in the 2008 Olympics as a whole.

You'd think he'd settle for nothing less than Bermuda or the British Virgins.

British Virgin Islanders are classed as British Overseas Territories citizens and since 2002 have had full British citizenship.

By August 2010, Camrose, acquired British Virgin Island-based Highwind Group.

Penn was the first woman to be appointed to either post, and the first British Virgin Islander to serve as Attorney General.

But island-hopping is easier between the US and the British Virgins than it is almost anywhere else in the Caribbean.

This period also saw the first coloured British Virgin Islander, Fredrick Augustus Pickering, appointed as President in 1884.