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Daybreak
Daybreak – 21 May 2025
It’s Wellness Wednesday and we are juicing it up with Greens to Go to try their Cayman Carnival Cleanse.
We interview Miss Earth Cayman Islands, Latecia Bush, and the national director, Latrese Haylock.
And Chef Thomas Tennant is here to chat about his Scovie Award-winning Cayman Peppa Sauce and what’s next for the fiery brand.
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Cayman Compass
Record-breaking sargassum influx begins to hit Cayman
After two years of relatively small amounts of sargassum seaweed washing ashore along Caribbean beaches, scientists say 2025 is on track to be a record-breaking year for the brown algae.
The University of South Florida’s Optical Oceanography Laboratory, which uses satellite imagery to track the sargassum, found “a new record” for total sargassum masses at the end of April. The amount surpassed the all-time high recorded in June 2022, which led to businesses in Cayman’s eastern districts reporting feeling “under siege” by the seaweed.
This year, at Morritt’s resort in East End, maintenance manager Franklin Ebanks said they were already seeing the impact.
“We started to see the mats of sargassum come ashore in East End on Wednesday, 14 May,” he said, adding that the resort has a seaweed removal programme to keep beaches clean and avoid sand loss.
Over the long weekend, sargassum could be seen moving further down the shoreline. In addition to East End, it was starting to affect the southern coastline of Grand Cayman and some beaches in the Sister Islands.
