Tag: Pirates Week
Culture minister gets $574K of ‘treasure’ for Pirates Week
(CNS): Culture Minister Dwayne Seymour has secured well over half a million dollars to spend on this year’s Pirates Week Festival, breathing new life into what had become a lacklustre event in recent years. A lack of government funding and a lack of interest in supporting it from local sponsors had taken a toll on […]
Pirate festival returns to traditional format
(CNS): After several years of experimenting with different formats, the annual Pirates Week Festival is returning to its traditional roots this year, spanning three weeks across all three islands with full heritage days in each district. The 2024 festival, which kicks off on 8 November with the theme “Setting Sail Through Time”, will mark the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Revamped Pirates Festival stretched to three months
(CNS): The annual Pirates Festival is undergoing another change and instead of a condensed version as was the case in 2021, the plan this year is to bring back the Heritage Days where each district hosts its own event at two-week intervals, beginning in September. The new three-month festival starts on 3 September with a […]
COVID sinks Pirates Week Festival
(CNS): Officials from the Ministry of Culture have announced that the annual Pirates Week Festival is cancelled, with the exception of the 41st Pirates Week 5k Sea Swim on Saturday, 13 November, which starts at 7am at Governor’s Beach, with registration from 6am to 6:45am. Discussions are underway for possible firework displays in various districts, […]
Pirates washed out by stormy weather
(CNS): With this year’s pirate capers already curtailed by COVID-19, the trimmed Pirates Week festivities have now been postponed as a result of the deluge of rain expected this weekend as Tropical Storm Eta returns. Officials from the Cayman National Cultural Foundation, which now runs the annual shindig, said they were moving most of the […]
Pandemic trims pirate party
(CNS): Not even pirates have escaped the long arm of COVID-19. While this year’s Pirates Week Festival has not been completely lost at sea, the sails have been trimmed on the party. Officials said that the 43rd annual festival, entitled ‘Cay-munity’ sums up the Cayman Islands’ response to every challenge this year. The event kicks […]
Pirates plan raid on plastic
(CNS): Pirates will be joining forces with a local NGO next month for a raid on plastic at Safehaven. The Pirates Week Festival announced this week that it has brought back the beach clean-up to this year’s festival and will be partnering with Plastic Free Cayman. Melanie McField, Pirates Week General Manager, said that anyone […]
Heritage Days need sponsor to boost Pirates Week
(CNS): Changes over the last two years to the Pirates Week Festival are due to a lack of funding and organisers are looking for the best way to make what little ‘treasure’ there is go further while maintaining the concept of the Heritage Days. But without a major sponsor for the district days, Pirates Week Executive […]
