The of­fi­cial fur­ther is quot­ed as say­ing "if no­body is pre­pared to host it, we will have to take it. We know the im­por­tance of the Carif­ta Games, we could not al­low it not to take place." The venue be­ing used is the Cather­ine Hall mul­ti-pur­pose sta­di­um in Mon­tego Bay, in the north-west­ern end of the is­land. Ja­maica last host­ed the Carif­ta Games in 1996 at the Na­tion­al Sta­di­um in the cap­i­tal Kingston. Ja­maica had been ini­tial­ly named a 2011 site fol­low­ing St Kitts and Nevis back­ing out of tak­ing the meet. 2007 host Turks and Caicos was the lat­est to pull out of con­tention, do­ing so ear­li­er this week.