Travel Cayman staffer fined for curfew breach
(CNS): A staff member of Travel Cayman, the department that oversees the COVID-19 protocols for unvaccinated travellers and people in isolation, was issued with a ticket on Tuesday by the RCIPS for an incident involving a breach of quarantine that took place on Monday, 28 March, according to the Ministry of Border Control and Labour.
The details of the breach have not been revealed but the ministry said the staff member “is no longer employed by the Cayman Islands Government”.
There is increasing anecdotal evidence that the protocols surrounding COVID-19, such as mask mandates, are no longer being fully enforced in restaurants and shops. The community at large is evidently becoming less concerned about the impact of the coronavirus.
The two Omicron variants currently believed to be circulating in Cayman are considerably less virulent, and while infections are rising slightly again, the impact on health appears to be minimal. Fewer people appear to be reporting positive tests to the authorities and therefore less likely to be officially locked down.
Meanwhile, as vaccinated tourists are no longer required to test and cruise ship passengers have returned to our shores, the mask mandate, especially in schools, may become challenging for the government to sustain for another four weeks.
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the aggravating circumstances here warrant imprisonment
What’s so Hard/wrong about wearing a mask indoors ?
Interferes with reading comprehension, apparently.
I thought this was an April Fools Day article. The joke is on me I guess 🙁
The joke is PACT
An ethical government would allow at risk groups to have a second buyer. Unfortunately PACT isn’t that either.
What the actual
(and this cannot be overemphasized)
!!!?F*CK?!!!
Pamdemic regulations have become just like the driving laws. Lax enforcement and everyone knows it.
Camaica soon come.
Wearing a mask is not a big deal and if it helps keep wearing them. The problem is that they have become a political symbol with Trump supporters in the no camp and liberals in the safety camp.
WTF? Really, Trump? Grow Up. What about the kids in school who shouldn’t be wearing them, that’s rather more important. Sheer hypocrisy from the Government I’m afraid. Science? Nah bro.
If a mask stops my child from contracting Covid I will absolutely make them wear one. It’s better than getting sick and missing 2 weeks of education. I suspect you would also like children to go to school armed with gun for protection.
It doesn’t
If you ever need surgery or dental work, please ask the surgeons, nurses and dentists to remove their masks since you think they don’t work.
Masks do not stop you from contracting the virus, but if you think it works, then you have some peace of mind. Wearing a mask should be optional at this point.
Great news for all the ER workers and surgery wards – PPE was all a lie, because I read it on Facebook.
I think you misunderstand the point of the mask. It’s to stop spreading the virus, not catching it. Concerning that you still don’t understand this.
Feel free to wear a mask indefinitely.
Ummm you realize there is literally no reason that kids who contract COVID should have to be out of school for two weeks. Look everywhere else is the world – just like all the regular colds and flus, once you feel better, back to class you go. Unmask the kids!!!
Article says they breached quarantine- nothing to do with mask wearing.
Curfew breach? Is that still a thing?
Quarantine breach. Try reading.
is Cayman the only place in the world where quarantines still take place?
@9:37am..Nope
Cayman and China. Nowhere else. Most places NEVER even had quarantine requirements.
YES!
You might want to take your own advice. Hint: look at the title
Headline says curfew breach. Article says quarantine breach.
Fined? Surely two years imprisonment, no?
Exactly!
Either you mandate masks in all circumstances or you leave people to choose. What’s the point of wearing the mask to go into a restaurant but take it off when seated next to several groups in the same space. Just do away with damn thing and stop with this pretense of following the science.
But I must request permission for my Caymanian family to be allowed to return home? PACT has lost their tiny little minds.
2.39pm I totally agree, no other country requires it’s citizens to get a certificate to allow them to return home. I flew in from Miami today and the lady on the American check in desk complained about having to check that I had a Travel Cert., a negative LFT test and that I was fully vaccinated. Then when I got to Cayman I have display the same docs all over again, when the immigration officer knows I would not be on the flight if I did not have them.Can anyone explain why we need a Travel Cert in these circumstances. This is bureaucracy gone bonkers, but I suppose it helps Govt. to employ more Caymanians.
No. Despite the checks, airlines have allowed at least two Covid positive travelers to come.
8.50pm Only two?, name the airlines, and how many positive travellers have landed off the cruise ships, possibly hundreds, but worse, we will never know?.
Cayman Airways from Jamaica
An American carrier from Miami
It definitely isn’t a country to follow in many ways, but Canada has a stupid “ArriveCAN” app that even Canadian citizens have to use (or they risk being fined or even jailed if they do not quarantine after failing to use the app).
Customers and staff in hardware stores, restaurants, pharmacies and hospitals are walking around unmasked and unchallenged, literally feet from uniformed security. Has anyone been written a ticket? What are we doing?
Good – no one should be wearing masks anymore
Despite those sentiments or how anyone feels about it, mask wearing is still the law until the end of April.
The law? Hahahaha. You must be new here.
The laws were always an exercise in virtue signaling.
The reason that they aren’t enforced, is that other than a very small vocal minority, very few people want to be ticketed for something that is essentially theatre.
If you are going to allow people to sit shoulder-to-shoulder in restaurants and bars without masks, enforcing some silly six foot rule which is not based on any credible science doesn’t really make sense to most sensible people.
Other than in medical settings and public transport, the need for masks is basically minimal at this stage anyway.
If you think a 10,000 time-reused piece of paper or cloth loosely draped around your face is doing anything to curb transmission you need your head examined.
They should take the laws off the books because it’s a mockery to have them at this stage and then Karens wouldn’t be able to call the police for a mask slipping below someone’s nose.
I’m all for public health rules when they a) are needed b) are effective. That time has now passed.
We are living.
Unmask our children Wayne!
A competent and honest government would have ditched all mask and testing regulations weeks ago.
Sadly our government is neither of those things.
MONTHS AGO!