About Cayman Island - Culture

The main influences on the culture of the Cayman Islands come from the United Kingdom, North America, and Jamaica. Along with these dominant cultural influences, there are 113 nationalities on the three islands that make up the country. The total population of the Cayman Islands consists of just over 52,000 people, spread throughout the island group with the majority of the people found on Grand Cayman. Roughly 20,000 are native Caymanian, with the remainder of the residents originating elsewhere in the world.

The native people of the Cayman Islands carry with them an air of independence, and are known to have a strong spirit. This courageousness helped sustain the islanders through trying times when the island group was known as "the islands that time forgot." In the past, most of the people of the Cayman Islands got their livelihood from the sea, and were merchant seamen.