Teachers Inspiration with Mrs. Parris Hoyte

On September 1, 2010, schools reopened for the start of the 2010-11 school year. So YouthFlex thought it fitting to highlight and honour teachers and the inspiration they bring to the world. Who better to have as guest than a 2010 Golden Apple Award honouree Mrs. Parris-Hoyte who was also featured in our backchat segment on a common Commonwealth value in the Cayman Islands "Diversity". That was not all, we had Sister Cathy Craig, a volunteer teacher at Truth For Youth School in studio to talk about the school's 50 Years Anniversary Celebrations and she was selected as our Person of the Week who Perspires to Inspire others this week. We also had Miss Teen 2010-11 Leanne Ritch join us to talk about the Pageant and her platform. The Flex Crew has committed to helping her to promote her platform in whatever way she plans.

YouthFlex covers Miss Teen Pageant

The Flex Crew covered the 2010 Miss Teen Pageant . The coverage was done by Kim, Danielle, Josh & Ahmed. The boys worked the crowd and the girls went backstage and mingled withthe contestants. Miss Leanne Ritch will wear the crown for 2010-11. Here are some pictures of the Pagaent

2010-2011 Miss Teen Contestants on the Flex

Josh took over when Takiyah left for college. His first three shows was a series of interviews with the 2010-2011 Miss Teen Contestants. the first session featured Samantha, Monique and Celina. The second session was today with Ashleigh, Nadicia and Shanique. Here ar some pix.

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Season 27 of Inspiration hosted by Takiyah & Josh sponsored by PriceWaterhouseCoopers

Season 27 the season of Inspiration is hosted by Takiyah before she left for Oakwood University then the show was hosted by Josh for the remainder of the summer into fall and concluding on the last wednesday in September. YouthFlex 9th Birthday and the Celebration of Caribbean Youth Day. it shoulde be a blast but listen to the Flex every Wednesday4-5 pm, if you can on http://www.radiocayman.gov.ky/ and click the LISTEN LIVE button on Radio Cayman 1. 89.9FM.

YouthFlex Season 26 of Illumination with Krista

Sorry , it has been a long time since our last update. Here are some photos from Season26, the Season of Illumination, hosted by Leo Krista. The show shed some light of different professions, on the crime issue and other areas that people might have forgotten.

YouthFlex Honours Female Youth Ambassadors

As part of our continued celebrations ofHonouringWomen's Month in Cayman. YouthFlex hosted several female Youth Ambassadors. Miss Teen Cayman Islands 2009-10 Jamesette Anglin, CARICOM Youth Ambassador Carla Martin, St. Ignatius High School Head Girl , Renee Prendergast, and the 2010 Yentel McGaw Youth Community Excellence Awards Recipient Martina Bodden.

They talked about their role as Ambassadors and then the Flex Crew had a Debate on "If March is Honouring Womens Month, why is there not a month dedicated to honour Men?"

Photos from the Go Karting Track

Honouring Women's Month see YouthFlex Queen of the Track Crowned

On March 10th YouthFlex saw the inagural "YouthFlex Queen of the Track" Race. Andrea "Annie" Watler finish on top of the podium while clocking the fastest lap of the race with 38.14 seconds,even faster than the boys in the race who were in the race to push the girls for fast lap times. Season Host Krista finished behind Annie and Kim placed third. Annie now has bragging right for twelve months as she reigns as "YouthFlex Queen of the track"Our guest on the Flex was Miriam Foster of the Family Resource Centre to talk about Honouring Women's Month activities along with local lady author Catherine Tyson to talk about her new book and the journey she has been on promoting the book "I'm Somebody's Mama" and Mr Alister Foster of Cayman Karting talking about what his plans are for the Go Kart track.

The Music List consisted of:

"Lioness on the Rise" by Queen Ifrica, "A wah do she" by local rising star Audrey Destune, "I feel for you" By Chaka Khan as our Throwback Jam and "Move" by KK Alese.

New Season , New Host, Season Opener of Illumination

On Wednesday March 3rd, YouthFlex opened it new season, the season of Illumination with 16 year old John Gray High School senior Krista Samuels at the helm along with co-host Kim and Takiyah. They were awesome and Krista handle her first remote broadcast masterfully. The topic was "Youth Entertainment" with guests from the Cayman Islands Youth Assembly, Ashvin, Daysha, Allison and Dejon. The remote broadcast was live from Burger King on Walkers Road. It was all good along with the 2 for $5 King Deals at Burger King that featured double Cheeseburgers on Wednesdays. Since March is Honouring Womens Month here in the Cayman Islands the music for the whole month of March will be done by women. The Music list for the season opener included:

Destra's "Independent ladies"

Taylor Swift's " Love Story"

Whitney Houston's "I want to dance with somebody" Our Throwback Jam

Shakira's "She Wolf"

Season 25 Finale of Recognition

On February 24th the Flex bid farewell to Andrel and the Season of Recognition. The show featured guests from Silver Thatch Pension's Student Stock trading programme and the 2010 YCLA Recipient Colin Anglin. The season was fairly quiet in terms of callers to the show with only 3 callers all season long until the finale that saw 6 callers to the show.

Recognition of Farmers & YouthFlex 400th Show

On February 10th, YouthFlex celebrated its 400th broadcast by calling a family huddle of past hosts and co-hosts at the sweetest spot in Cayman, "Cayman Honey" the home of Mr. Otto Watler, the sole bee keeper in the Cayman Islands. Mr. Otto is a faithful listener of the Flex since we went on air on September 24, 2001 and we thought it would be great to share the moment of celebrating our 400th show with him at his home while recognizing him for his contributions to the agricultural sector of the Cayman Islands for over 60 years.

Past hosts and co-hosts that came to the 400th show was:

James 'Jamo' Myles

Sandra "Sandy" Catron

Felix " The APOSTLE" Manzanares

Priscilla Souza

Victor "Dash" Crumbley

Jodi Ann "Jojo" Tater

Mikhail " Mick" McLaughlin

Shanice Kelly

Sherelle Clarke

Kadane Hall

Leanna "Lily" Jarvis

Those that sent their apologies were:

Leany "Leah" Burrell

Edlyn "Lyn" Ruiz

Knolis Scott

Dina "Dina D" Douglas

Matthew " Kylton" Hylton

Matthew "Young Money" Moss-Solomon

Shakiena " Shaq" Bush

Shyvon "Vonnie Girl" Hydes

Jermaine Sharpe

Anya Rankine

The Godfather of YouthFlex came to the 400th show as well Mr. Carl Brown and took lots of photos that will be featured soon on this blogspot.

Music this week featured Triplee who will be in concert next week at Agape to launch Miles Ahead Ministries "Do Something Cayman " campaign