Archive for February 25th, 2022
Daily average COVID-19 caseload falls to 46
(CNS): Public Health officials have said that the seven-day rolling average of COVID-19 cases up to 25 February has now fallen to just 46, and as of 24 February there were 1,169 estimated active cases in the Cayman Islands. Eight patients are currently hospitalised for COVID-related causes, six of whom are unvaccinated and one partially […]
Phased return for cruise ships begins late March
(CNS): Cruise ships will be returning to the Cayman Islands from 21 March in what officials have said will be a phased approach, with a maximum of 40% of the previous passenger numbers for the first four weeks. In a press release issued late Friday afternoon following the cancellation of a press briefing scheduled for […]
Couple guilty of armed Tortuga robbery
(CNS): Richard Edward Nash (27) and Kasnique Cupid (37) were found guilty on Friday of a violent robbery at the Tortuga liquor store in Governor’s Square on the evening of 7 February 2020. They were convicted of a joint enterprise following a judge-alone trial before Justice Marva McDonald-Bishop in November last year, after a mistrial […]
Still no Privy Council decision on gay marriage case
(CNS): This past Wednesday marked one year since the appeal by Chantelle Day and Vickie Bodden-Bush to reinstate the chief justice’s March 2019 ruling legalising same-sex marriage was argued before the Privy Council in London, but they have still not received a decision. A judicial review last year of the governor’s move to introduce civil […]
Census reveals 56% of workers not Caymanian
(CNS): On Thursday evening the Economics and Statistics Office (ESO) published the preliminary report of the 2021 Census, which revealed an estimated population of 69,656 living across 29,502 households. Just under 53% of those living here are Caymanian, and there has been an increase of around 6,300 people since 2010. The unemployment rate among local […]
