Tag: Pirates Week
Pirates Week slashed to 5-day event in GT
(CNS): The Cayman Islands’ longest running and most well-known annual festival is being dramatically reduced for its 40th year anniversary in November. There will be no district heritage days during Pirates Week this year, which has been cut to a five-day event that will be concentrated in the capital. Officials told CNS that there will […]
Tourist board seeks feedback on Pirates Week
(CNS): The annual tourist week festival that has been part of the local events calendar for almost forty years continues to stir up mixed feelings among visitors and residents alike, but this year the Tourism Attraction Board is conducting a survey about what people think. However, the 21-question online public opinion survey is not anonymous […]
CIG plans to measure pirates’ ‘gold’
(CNS Business): The Ministry of Tourism has announced plans to conduct an economic impact assessment of this year’s Pirates Week to measure how much gold the pirate festival really brings in. The last assessment of the event, conducted well over a decade ago in 2002, identified 11,000 unique visitors, but since then the event has […]
Calling all swashbucklers: Pirates Week is landing
(CNS): The 38th annual Pirates Week festival kicks off tonight (Thursday, 12 November) with the CUC Pan in de City steel pan competition and a launch party with live music. A full calendar of events follows, but things begin at 7pm today with steel pan performances on the harbour front. The first party of the 10-day […]
