Transport
DG: New website to resolve travel troubles
(CNS): Deputy Governor Franz Manderson said a new website for inbound travellers has been formally launched, and anyone wishing to come into Cayman in November must now re-apply to this new portal to get clearance and organise their quarantine options. After significant problems with the previous transition of responsibility for this function, the DG told […]
Travellers can book inward flights before clearance
(CNS): Officials from the new authority dealing with incoming travellers have released details of the evolving process for those wanting to enter the Cayman Islands during this first phase of the border reopening. It now appears that the list of approved travellers can book flights before receiving clearance from the TravelCayman team, as the number […]
TravelCayman struggling with demand
(CNS): The transition to the new system handling those wishing to return or visit Cayman has not gone smoothly. TravelCayman is also struggling to cope with the increase in demand from property owners and others with connections to the island who want to visit. CNS has heard numerous complaints from people who have spent hours […]
TravelCayman in political no man’s land
(CNS): Government has created a new team to manage and clear the arrival of all categories of people allowed to return or enter the Cayman Islands, but it is not clear which ministry is now responsible. For the last six months the Ministry of International Trade, Aviation and Maritime Affairs has been working outside of […]
Airport reopens and Miami flight rescheduled
(CNS): Cayman Airways’ repatriation flight to Miami is now expected to depart at 2:30pm Wednesday, since all flights were cancelled yesterday after Owen Roberts International Airport and Charles Kirkconnell International Airport were both closed. The flight will return from Miami at 7pm, when arriving passengers cleared to do so will be tested at the airport […]
‘Stray’ traveller cleared, those isolated stay home
(CNS): A woman who did not have permission from the local TravelTime team to come to the Cayman Islands but was allowed on board the British Airways flight last week has not been deported, officials have confirmed. Meanwhile, the first group of people home-isolating using geofencing technology all followed the rules this weekend, as the […]
CAL adds more flights for essential travel
(CNS): Cayman Airways Limited has added another flight to Kingston, Jamaica, this month and three additional flights to Miami, Florida, in October as part of the COVID-19 repatriation schedule. The national flag carrier said the flight to Kingston will depart on Thursday, 24 September, at 10:00am. Flights to Miami will leave at 10:00am on 1, […]
Tags and 14-day lockdown to replace bio-buttons
(CNS): With no letup in the global spread of COVID-19, the Cayman Islands Government has revised its plans for the soft, phased border reopening next month. Premier Alden McLaughlin has confirmed that the bio-button idea has been dropped. Instead, approved visitors, property owners, workers and residents will still be required to isolate for 14 days, […]
Cayman Airways rolls out new flight schedule
(CNS): Cayman Airways Ltd (CAL) has updated its schedule for repatriation flights over the next two months from Grand Cayman to the US, Jamaica and Honduras. During September, while the borders remain closed, the national airline will run just three more flights to Miami and one to Kingston. But in October, after the expected opening […]
October border opening very limited
(CNS): Government is scaling back on its five-day bio-button isolation proposal to reopen the Cayman Islands’ borders and is now aiming for a tighter, more limited reopening in October than initially planned. With COVID-19 still raging around the world and the high level of active cases in Florida, the phased re-opening will begin with property […]
Travelling blues with TravelCayman
So I am flying tomorrow, Thursday, on the British Airways flight back to Cayman. It’s 10:45pm at night in the UK and I still don’t have the letter clearing us to travel. They are waiting on a signature on the letters, I assume from someone high in authority. I was told we would get the […]
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