As a non-profit organization run by a team of dedicated volunteers on Grand Cayman, corporate sponsorship is crucial for keeping the 37-year Batabano tradition alive and thriving, and organisers say there has never been a better time than now for businesses to support this growing national event.
It looked like a scene from a movie all about a grand Caribbean plantation in the 18th Century, as elegant ladies and gentlemen walked sedately up the path to the Pedro St James grounds.
If the 49th Annual Agriculture Show at the Stacy Watler Pavilion was anything to go by, agriculture of all types is growing and thriving in the Cayman Islands.
The twelfth annual Cayman Cookout offered a plentiful supply of the best food, wine and cocktails that Cayman has to offer last weekend, as chefs from all around the world convened at The Ritz-Carlton for what has developed as one of the world’s best culinary weekends.
While industry leaders recognised the importance of being at least partly self-sufficient when it came to growing and rearing food, it was something of an uphill battle with tourism and the financial services industry taking centre stage within Cayman’s economy from the 1960s.
It’s that time of year that we are thankful for cooler weather when fruits and vegetables can be sown in abundance for reaping in a couple of months’ time.
Capping up the Pirates Week Festival Office events on Monday evening (11th November) East End Heritage Committee won the top prize of $1000.00 as the winners of both the day and ‘Illumination’ night parades 2019.
Levi Superville, a member of the youth running club 345 Athletics, won the Pirates Week To Hell and Back 10K on Sunday 6th October. The sixteen-year-old snatched the top spot ahead of 49 other runners with the top time of 38 minutes 45.07 seconds.
Councillor Austin Harris tendered the Minister of Community Affairs’ apologies before delivering an Older Persons Month Message.
The proposed dates by the Ministry are not the solution to realise the full potential of the Cayman Carnival product.