Tag: Pirates Fest
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Heritage Days dropped from Pirates Week
(CNS): The 2023 National Pirates Week Festival kicks off Friday in Little Cayman, but there will be no District Heritage Days this year. According to a press release about the event, the much loved and foundational element of the festival has been dropped “due to time and budget constraints”, which led organisers “to make a […]
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Premier accepts responsibility for traffic chaos
(CNS): Premier Wayne Panton has issued an apology to the country after traffic ground to a complete halt across George Town on Friday evening when the roads along the harbour front were closed for Pirates Fest events. Thousands of people were gridlocked for hours, unable to move in any direction due to what appears to […]
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Minister urges support for revamped Pirates Fest
(CNS): Culture Minister Bernie Bush is hoping that the community will embrace this year’s Pirates Festival, the first full-scale event since 2019. With a slate of new events as well as several traditional capers, the festival will include plenty of pirate skullduggery as well as local heritage events, competitions, dances, races, food festivals and family days.
![Pre-Pirates Week heritage days kick off in East End Pre-Pirates Week heritage days kick off in East End](http://caymannewsservice.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Carmen-Conolly-at-a-previous-Heritage-Day-min-150x150.jpg)
Pre-Pirates Week heritage days kick off in East End
(CNS): The latest experiment with the Cayman Islands’ annual Pirates Week festival kicks off next week with the first-ever series of pre-festival Heritage Days. The 12-week campaign focusing on Cayman’s culture and heritage begins next week on Friday, 16 September, in East End for a daylong celebration that will showcase what the district has to […]