Documentary on British Virgin Islands, the group of islands in the Caribbean which is ruled by the British, hence the prefix British to its name.
It has got more than 50 islands but only about 16 of them are inhabited. Apart from tourism there is not much going on there, except for rum production which is locally made using sugar cane. There are some organic farming going on, but the mainstay of these islands are obviously the tourists, especially the billionaire Americans and Europeans with their cruise liners and yatch and all.
The documentary picks up some three or four subjects and works on their story like the hermit crab race in one island, which sees a lot of frenzied betting, the rum production in one village, organic farming in another and the like.
Its also the home for a lot of overseas banks which offer tax free status to the monies of the rich people around the world. So there's a huge presence of banks and their very minimal staff in the capital city. BVI is known as an offshore banking centre so i guess lots of transactions takes place running into billions of dollars.
Nice documentary to watch, kept the interest intact.
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