Topic: Neville McCoy

Trees cut fresh from the beach and decorated with shells. The sweet aromas of turtle or wild fowl cooking in the kitchen caboose. The glow of heavy cakes baking on an open fire. The sights and sounds of a Cayman Christmas have changed dramatically over the decades. From fearsome Junkanoo masks to the gruesome spectacle of draining and butchering the cow for Christmas beef, some of the island’s favorite traditions are being kept alive this festive season.

A collision between a car and a truck hauling aggregate closed the center of Bodden Town last week for six hours. The accident, along a strip of road near Mostyn’s Gas Station, is emblematic of the ongoing debate about the safety of the narrow road and whether trucks should be using it.

A Bodden Town man believes bones found by a member of the public in September last year could be those of the late Sarah Bodden, a woman from the district who disappeared in the 1940s.