The 4th annual Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC) Caribbean 600 commences this morning at 11 am, and as usual, the best place to witness some of the world’s fastest vessels take to the warm Caribbean seas is Shirley Heights.

Digicel recently signed a three-year agreement that will see the company become a key sponsor of National Sailing Academy until 2014.

Nelson’s Dockyard is 50. Well, not technically, the Dockyard was an active naval facility, primarily used for the servicing of British warships – and base of operations for British naval hero Horatio Nelson who was based there between 1784 and 1787 – back in the 1700s.

The presence of 34 ocean racing yachts in English Harbour this weekend, preparing for the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s Caribbean 600, has given a very welcome boost to the local economy.