Topic: Rum Point Club

Cayman is losing a popular tourist hot spot and weekend hangout for local boaters and residents, at least for now.

As new regulations aimed at curbing the spread of COVID come into effect, popular hot spots like Rum Point are winding down operations as the planned reopening of borders shifts to next year.

Property owners in the Cayman Kai area were advised on Thursday night that they should remove any encroachments on the gazetted road corridor before the National Roads Authority does it for them, bills them and possibly has them prosecuted in court.

The Department of Planning and a local developer are at odds over shoreline modifications at the site of a future luxury condominium development in Rum Point. The Department of Planning has issued a stop order, and the developer, Joe Imparato, is seeking clarity and a resolution to the impasse.

In the July 12, 1967 edition of the Caymanian Weekly, a precursor of the Cayman Compass, “North Side News” correspondent Nettie McCoy wrote:

In the Nov. 30, 1966 edition of the Caymanian Weekly, a precursor of the Cayman Compass, news from North Side included: “On the 20th, approximately 90 guests marked the formal reopening of the Rum Point Club."

The Oct. 19, 1966 edition of the Caymanian Weekly, a precursor of the Cayman Compass, featured a column by ‘Sandys’ on the new management at the Rum Point Club: “Bet Alice’s eyes opened wide at the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party but am sure they would have opened wider if she had seen what I saw last Sunday at Rum Point."

More than 200 animals lovers gathered at Rum Point Club on Sunday for the fifth annual PAWS In The Sand fundraising dinner.