Mainstay Lake Resort hosts an annual regatta as well as a regular Easter Car and Bike Show.

[2][3] A pineapple processing facility was established in Mainstay/Whyaka in 2002, an initiative of the National Agricultural Research Institute (NARI) and Amazon Caribbean Ltd (AMCAR).

[4] Due to declining pineapple farming in the area, AMCAR closed the facility in 2014;[5] there were talks of reopening in 2019.

Whyaka or Whyak is a thirteen square-mile Amerindian community[7] of mostly Arawak people.

Arawaks were the first to inhabit the Mainstay area who called it ‘Quacabuka’ meaning ‘in-between'.