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Junior Achievement began operations in the Cayman Islands in 1991.  They now operate with a part-time staff of one person.  In the Cayman Islands, Junior Achievement is a project of the Rotary Club of Grand Cayman Central.  The population of the Cayman Islands is 35,000 and the national language is English.  

Junior Achievement of The Cayman Islands offers the Company Program.

The board and staff of Junior Achievement of the Cayman Islands believe that JA is important as it creates a necessary partnership between business and education and to make Achievers in Grand Cayman “workforce ready”.

Columbus discovered Little Cayman and Cayman Brad during his fourth and last voyage to the New World, on May 10, 1503. While sailing from Panama to Hispaniola, severe winds pushed his ships off course. The ship’s log reported “…we were in sight of two very small and low islands, full of tortoises, as was all the sea about, insomuch as they looked like little rocks.” Consequently, Columbus named the islands Las Totugas after the abundant sea turtles sighted.