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Grand Cayman’s best beaches, from the coconut oil-covered crowds on Seven Mile Beach to the pristine oasis of Smith’s Cove.

Seven Mile Beach

Sugar-white sands and a sapphire-striated sea makeGrand Cayman’s marquee strip a no-brainer. The scene revolves around a constant parade of characters: badge-wearing conventioneers escaped from the air-conditioned confines of the resorts that front the sand, cruise-ship day-trippers glistening with tanning oil, and Euro tourists in tiny trunks and ginormous jewelry. Reggae-flavored syncopations fill the air; there’s a beach bar every few paces (we’re partial to Calico Jack’s); and the coconutty sweetness of suntan oil perfumes every passing breeze. Seven Mile is an obvious choice — and a fine one.

Rum Point

Crowds flock here like cling-cling birds to an unattended plate. With a small beach dominated by a bar and restaurant, it’s a magnet for cruise-ship passengers on excursions to nearby Stingray City. Get here in the morning, however, and you’ll experience the Point’s lesser-known side: blissfully serene, vacant vanilla sands stippled with casuarina needles that resemble chocolate sprinkles and neat rows of sorbet-colored picnic tables at the water’s edge. By midday, Top 40 tunes will blare from the speakers and lines for the signature Mudslide will start to form. But for now, the beach — and the booze — is all yours.

Smith’s Cove

At this pristine oasis just minutes from the Seven Mile strip, yet light-years apart, chickens peck beneath the almond and sea-grape trees that shelter the shore from along the road while, on the ironshore that embraces the heart-shaped cove, boys somersault fearlessly into the clear waters below. This is where employees from Seven Mile Beach hotels take refuge on their precious days off. So if you go, please don’t tell them we sent you.

Source: caribbeantravelmag.com

The 4th Caribbean Cinema Travel Exhibition will begin on May 10 in eastern Santiago de Cuba province and will tour the island until July 5, when it will arrive in this capital to be enjoyed on the screen of the Chaplin movie theater. Cuban producer Rigoberto Lopez, president and promoter of the Exhibition, told ACN that this is one of the most significant meetings of the region, because it gets to 31 countries and overcomes the language barrier. With the purpose of preserving the audiovisual memory of the Caribbean in all of its diversity and favor its visibility, the exhibition compiles the best of the region’s cinematography and translates it into Spanish, English and French, its official languages. Frantz Voltaire, Norman de Palm and Bruce Paddington are some of the filmmakers that, under Lopez’s direction, have been part of the selection committee. The present edition is dedicated to the Caribbean Diaspora, and its program includes 33 movies, between documentaries, animated films, shorts and feature films, coming, among other nations, from Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Costa Rica, Barbados, the United States, Haiti, the Bahamas, the Dominican Republic and Cuba. The Exhibition became a regional meeting on July 8, 2006, when its first edition was convened. Anabel Fernandez, Communication specialist with the office in charge of the Exhibition, told ACN that on this occasion there will be other showings, like those dedicated to Haitian cinema, after the earthquake that devastated that country in January, 2010.

Source: repeatingislands.com

A SNAPSHOT of Jamaica’s music history is captured in a mural which now brightens the section of Water Lane, near its intersection with East Street, in downtown Kingston. The mural is on the building which is provides a temporary house to the recently opened music museum. The museum is being housed in a building owned by the Institute of Jamaica on Water Lane in the heart of the city until a permanent home is found. Months ago, the curator and director of the Jamaica Music Museum, Herbert ‘Herbie’ Miller, told The Gleaner the idea of a music museum was to collect, preserve and exhibit information on the country’s music history. Miller reported then that the expansive mural was being created by a group of youngsters.

Source: jamaica-gleaner.com

The tangy taste of sorrel (spiked with a shot of rum, if you like) is the perfect Caribbean drink.

MAKES 1 QUART

4 hibiscus tea bags or 1 cup sorrel petals (available in Caribbean markets)


2 whole cloves


1 2-inch cinnamon stick


1/2 slice ginger, peeled

1/2 cup light brown sugar


1 tablespoon fresh lime juice.

1. In a large saucepan, combine tea bags or sorrel flowers, cloves, cinnamon stick, ginger and sugar with 4 cups water. Bring to a boil and reduce to a simmer, stirring constantly until sugar is entirely dissolved (approximately 2 to 3 minutes). Cover, remove from heat and allow to cool completely. Remove and discard tea bags, cinnamon and cloves.

2. Fill a large pitcher half-full with ice and add 4 cups of cold water. Pour sorrel mixture into the pitcher, add rum if desired, and mix well.

Source: caribbeantravelmag.com

Claiming to still have Cayman salt running through his blood US author Jack Scott will be reading from his Cayman based novel at a local book store next week. Cayman Cross is a seafaring adventure based on a true story of misfortune on the Caribbean Sea and the fate of the survivors who landed in Grand Cayman. The first born American son in a long line of Caymanians dating back several centuries, Scott is the son of a sea captain who says his youth was steeped in old seafaring stories and legends. In this historical novel Scott tells the tale of the Cuban trading Schooner Juana Mercedes which in 1922 embarked on a journey that led her into a web of treachery, piracy and multiple murders off the Cayman Islands coast.

“As a young man, I went to sea myself, but my father pushed and inspired me to take up a career in law,” he said. “A number of years ago, while reading a Cayman Islands history book, I happened upon just a few lines about “the last piracy” in the Cayman Islands. Right then I knew I had to research the incident and write about it—the story was just that captivating. With countless hours of research and a fair dash of imagination, the Cayman Cross piracy turned into a historical novel and became a personal contribution to my Caymanian heritage.”

Scott will launch the novel at Books & Books in Camana Bay Tuesday, 15 November at 7pm This free event will include an author presentation and audience discussion followed by a book signing.

Source: www.caymannewsservice.com