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TimeBack: Episode 5 – Crowned Confidence: A Teen Pageant Story from the ’80s
Back in the late 1980s, Sophia Dilbert captured the crown as Miss Teen Cayman Islands but the impact went far beyond the title.
In this reflective piece, she shares how the experience shaped her confidence, opened unexpected doors, and why she encourages young women today to consider the empowering world of pageants.
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A window into the past with the Compass photo archives
A photograph of two men standing on a small motorboat, laying some of the last tree logs for a large bonfire near the reef in East End, sparks childhood memories for Graham Rankin of a decades-long tradition.
Rankin started down memory lane after seeing an old photograph from the Cayman Compass archives. It’s one of 300,000 being revived and digitised by Compass Media and Dart as part of a project to bring the islands’ past back to life.
As he stared at the black-and-white image with slightly squinted eyes and a tilted head, Rankin told the Cayman Compass, “I still remember like it was yesterday.”
Rankin recalled that the tradition started in the early 1950s, before his time, by the community men in East End.
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