Tag: Beach clean-up
Joey Hew tours NiCE clean-up sites
(CNS Local Life): Two days ahead of the completion of the two-week National Community Enhancement (NiCE) initiative, which officially ended Friday, 19 July, Minister for Commerce, Planning and Infrastructure Joey Hew visited the temporary employees working at locations across Grand Cayman.
NiCE workers tackle sargassum on beaches
(CNS Local Life): Dedicated crews of National Community Enhancement (NiCE) summer project workers heaped wheelbarrows full of sargassum in coastal areas last week, shifting loads of the seaweed which is plaguing Cayman’s beaches. The 486 men and women taking part in this year’s project are focusing on the sargassum that is having a detrimental effect […]
Governor attends beach clean-up
(CNS Local Life): Governor Martyn Roper and his wife, Elisabeth, stopped by a clean-up at Barefoot Beach on Saturday, 12 January, which was organised by Plastic Free Cayman, a non-profit dedicated to reducing single-use plastic in the Cayman Islands, and Red Sail Sports. The couple joined a group of 70 volunteers who were collecting rubbish […]
Community comes together in LC beach clean-up
(CNS Local Life): Little Cayman resorts and businesses recently joined forces with researchers of the Reef Environmental Education Foundation (REEF) to take part in an island-wide beach clean-up. During the full winter moon, with researchers gathered for the Grouper Moon Project, a study of the annual spawning of the Nassau grouper, the marine conservation effort […]
Bank staff part of worldwide clean-up effort
(CNS Local Life) Employees of Butterfield Group companies around the world joined forces with local environmental groups to take part in the International Coastal Clean-Up Saturday, 16 September. All together 267 Butterfield team members cleared 113 bags of trash and recyclables from public spaces in six countries during the first of what will become an […]
Volunteers brighten up the Brac
(CNS): After cleaning the Long Beach coastline of Cayman Brac, volunteers from the Sustainable Sister Islands GREEN Team are heading underwater to spruce up the marine environment. Organisers are calling on divers, boaters, snorkellers and even though those who prefer to stay dry to join the effort, which begins 9 June at 11am.
