News about the Cayman Islands in the Foreign Press

Wednesday, August 4, 2004

Roller Derby Texas style in Cayman

NEW YORK, USA – According to the New York Times, since a handful of self-described onetime kiddy rinkrats met at an Austin party and formed the Lonestar league in 2001, Texas women’s Roller Derby offshoots have sprouted in the Cayman Islands, among other places. And many more are said to be under way.

Cayman should improve trade links with Jamaica

DENBIGH, Jamaica – The Jamaica Observer reported that the Cayman Islands’ agriculture minister, Gilbert McLean, said his country and Jamaica shared the common history of subsistence farming and should therefore improve trade links. The Cayman Islands agricultural society had a display booth at the recent Denbigh Agricultural and Industrial Show.

Queen of the Cayman deep

EDMONTON, Canada – According to the Edmonton Journal, three years ago in the liquid blue off Grand Cayman, world champion freediver Mandy-Rae Cruickshank, riding a sled down to 446 feet, dived deeper than any woman alive, setting a world record — her first — as a member of Canada’s Performance Freediving Team.

In March, Cruickshank set her fourth world record for women, once again, off Grand Cayman. And she did it with panache. She reached a depth of 256 feet in “constant ballast,” a discipline where athletes swim down and up with fins under their own power.

The win followed a month of intensive training and in a sport that typically measures record gains in small increments, it was a truly satisfying, if not stunning, outcome. The previous record, held by rival freediver Tanya Streeter, was 70 metres.

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