Archive for November, 2021
Education ministry spends $195k on reusable masks
(CNS): The Ministry of Education has purchased 44,000 reusable masks, branded with the Department of Education Services (DES) logo, for around CI$195,000 to hand out to students and teachers in government schools. The education system continues to be hit hard by the pandemic, including the University College of the Cayman Islands, which closed this week […]
CAL returning to Big Apple in time for Christmas
(CNS): Cayman Airways is relaunching its Grand Cayman to New York route in December, just in time for the Christmas Holidays. The first flight back to the Big Apple since March 2020 will depart from Owen Roberts International Airport on 16 December. The resumption of the National Airline’s popular New York route will see four […]
LC over-water bungalows ‘unacceptable’ says DoE
(CNS): A proposal to build over-water bungalows in a marine park on Little Cayman at Kingston Bight is “fundamentally unacceptable”, the Department of Environment has said in a technical review submitted to Cabinet regarding a coastal works licence application by Peppercorn Investments. In the report the DoE urged Cabinet to refuse permission because of the […]
Speaker’s ex-UK lawyer in hot water over work for OTs
(CNS): Sir Geoffrey Cox QC, a member of the British Parliament, is coming in for some serious criticism in the UK over legal work he has been doing in the overseas territories. Cox, the MP for Torridge and West Devon and a former attorney general for England and Wales, successfully represented Speaker McKeeva Bush in […]
Unvaccinated people dominating positive COVID-19 cases
(CNS): According to an update on the current trends of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Cayman Islands, 70% of all the new positive cases of the virus recorded during the first week of November were among the unvaccinated. Chief Nursing Officer Dr Hazel Brown said that 14 people were admitted to hospital with COVID-19, twelve […]
Vaccine clinics close as supply runs dry
(CNS): Government’s management of the COVID-19 pandemic had another hiccup Wednesday, when the Health Services Authority announced the temporary closure of the vaccine clinics after supplies of the Pfizer shots ran out. Officials said this was due to the “success in the uptake” over recent weeks but did not explain why replacement supplies were not […]
PCR exit test pilot to address chronic staff shortage
(CNS): Public Health has begun rolling out new system this week for people coming to the end of their isolation period which allows them to go to a central district location for their PCR exit test instead of waiting for health staff to come to them. CNS has learned that there are just four people […]
Fire crew checks out smouldering dump
(CNS): Cayman Islands Fire Service officers were at the George Town landfill Wednesday morning exploring an area where smoke was seen by Department of Environmental Health staff. Both teams are said to be excavating areas of concern near the top of the dump but officials said no smoke is currently visible. CIFS and DEH staff […]
PACT seriously mismanaging outbreak, says PPM
(CNS): Opposition Leader Roy McTaggart said he has tried “very hard to give the premier and the government a wide berth to get things together”, but PACT’s “cavalier attitude towards” the COVID-19 pandemic must end, as he accused them of seriously mismanaging the community outbreak. In a press statement from the Progressives, McTaggart said the […]
Over 4,500 people in COVID-19 isolation
(CNS): Almost 6.5% of the population was in quarantine or self-isolating as of 8am Tuesday morning. Despite indications from Public Health officials yesterday that the number was 2,785, the latest release from government stated that yesterday morning there were 4,574 people locked down because of the pandemic.
85% of COVID hospital patients unvaccinated
(CNS): Chief Medical Officer Dr John Lee confirmed that five people currently in the hospital suffering from COVID-19 are being assisted with oxygen but none of them are on a ventilator or other breathing assistance. Among the 14 admissions at present, it is understood that 12 of them, or 85%, are unvaccinated against SARS‐CoV‐2. Despite requests […]
