Revamped royal do declared nice success

Cayman News Service

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Coast Guard contingent in the Queen’s Birthday Parade

(CNS): Over 800 people attended the relocated celebrations for the Queen’s Birthday Celebrations this year, which were lauded by officials as a great success. The annual event which has been moved in its entirety from outside the Parliament Building, where it has traditionally been held, to the road in front of Government House, the governor’s residence, to support the growing independence of Parliament in Cayman and the separation of the different arms of government.

After the pomp and ceremony of the uniform parades and salutes, various royal and local gongs were handed out to recipients before the guests attended the traditional garden party in the grounds of Governor Martyn Roper’s Seven Mile Beach residence.

Roper said the garden party was the largest turnout for a Queen’s Birthday event in recent memory. “My huge thanks to all on the parade, the teams at Protocol and Government House for…

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