National Heroes Day 2022: Honouring our Uniform Services in the Cayman Islands

Each year Caymanians celebrate local
heroism on the fourth Monday in January as part of the National Heroes’ Day
observances and public holiday. This year National Heroes’ Day is Monday 24
January 2022. For 2022 the focus is “Honouring our Uniform Services.”

The uniform services include:

• The Royal Cayman Islands
  Police Service (including the Special Constabulary).
• Cayman Islands Fire
  Services.
• Customs & Border
  Control (CBC, including Immigration & Customs Legacy Officers).
• Her Majesty’s Cayman
  Islands Prison Service.
• Cayman Islands Cadet
  Corps.
• Cayman Islands Coast
  Guard.
• The Cayman Islands
  Regiment.

Nominations were held in October
2021 for the following categories of awards:

• Early Pioneer: An individual (alive or deceased) who has made an
  exceptional contribution, prior to 1971, to the development and delivery of
  Uniformed Services in the Cayman Islands. This individual will be awarded a
  certificate.
• Pioneer: An individual (alive or deceased) who has made an
  exceptional contribution between 1971 and 2011, to the development and delivery
  of Uniformed Services in the Cayman Islands. A commemorative insignia and
  certificate will be awarded.
• Emerging Pioneer: An individual (alive or deceased) who has made a
  significant contribution, from 2012 to 2021, to the development and delivery of
  Uniformed Services in the Cayman Islands. This individual will receive a
  certificate.
• Excellence and Valour: An individual (alive or deceased) who during their service
  has performed an extraordinary act of bravery and acted voluntarily and without
  regard for personal risk, exhibiting remarkable heroism under circumstances of
  extreme personal danger. This act must have occurred in a moment of clear and
  obvious danger and was clearly above and beyond the call or risk of ordinary
  duty and sense of obligation. (newportworldresorts.com) A commemorative insignia and certificate will be
  awarded.
• Memorial Scroll: A deceased person who was a leader or notable contributor
  to the development and delivery of Uniformed Services in the Cayman Islands who
  lost their life in the line of duty or while serving as a member of the
  Uniformed Services. This individual will be awarded a certificate.

Yello salutes all our national
Uniformed Services members and congratulates all awardees.

Happy Heroes’ Day!

Sources: Celebrate Cayman and Cayman Islands Government.