Health
CIG should make terms of dump deal public
Smiley Whiley Take Your Timey writes: When this bid call was put out by CIG IN 2017, the final bids were down to Decco-Dart (a newbie to waste management) and a French-led consortium of several experienced international waste management and waste-to-energy operators. In the final analysis and in a process not open to public scrutiny, […]
Saunders urges release of audit on $2B ReGen deal
(CNS): The war of words between Premier Wayne Panton and Chris Saunders MP (BTW) escalated Monday when the former minister said the real reason why he is no longer in Cabinet is that he was not prepared to support the ReGen deal PACT is about to finalise. Saunders said it could cost as much as […]
Moderna COVID booster available to all over 12
(CNS): The Public Health Department is now offering the Moderna booster vaccine against COVID-19 to everyone aged 12 and over to protect against the Omicron strain of the virus and the numerous variant strains currently circulating in the Cayman Islands. While officials have stopped reporting on the official levels of virus in the community, COVID-19 […]
Cayman producing 5 x average global trash rate
(CNS): The Cayman Islands must do better at reducing the amount of rubbish it generates even as the country awaits a deal with Dart to take over the waste-management programme. A new report from the Office of the Auditor General found that the government has made no progress on targets set more than seven years […]
HCCI names oncology unit after late founding partner
(CNS): Health City Cayman Islands has expanded its cancer patient services with a new radiation oncology centre kitted out with the latest technology, including a Siemens TruBeam Varian Lineae Accelerator, the first of its kind in this jurisdiction and one of the most advanced in the region, HCCI said in a release.
COVID still claiming local lives 3 years after lockdown
(CNS): There were three COVID-related deaths last month among hospital patients, all of whom had underlying comorbidities. Three years after the government locked down the country and closed the borders, 17 people who were admitted to hospital last month, including those admitted for unrelated reasons, were positive for the virus, officials said in the latest […]
Ministry to conduct WHO health survey of 3,300 homes
(CNS): The Ministry of Health has announced plans to undertake the World Health Organization’s “STEPS” survey in June. The internationally comparable, standardised and integrated surveillance tool allows officials to collect, analyse and disseminate core information on noncommunicable diseases (NCD). Noting the importance of getting a true picture of NCD in the Cayman Islands, officials said that […]
CIG buys Mariners Cove for wellness park
(CNS): The Ministry of Health has confirmed that the Cayman Islands Government has closed a deal to purchase the site of an old oceanfront resort that was destroyed in Hurricane Ivan and never redeveloped. Mariners Cove in Prospect, Health Minister Sabrina Turner’s own constituency, has been abandoned since September 2004, and despite various private sector […]
COVID centres to close as test requirement dropped
(CNS): Three years after Cayman confirmed its first case of COVID-19, which resulted in the first death here as a result of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the government-run testing centres across all three islands will close on Wednesday as the mandatory requirement for people to take confirmation PCR tests has been dropped. The Public Health Department […]
Survey shows 41% of teens have already tried booze
(CNS): The top three drugs of choice among students in the Cayman Islands continue to be alcohol, e-cigarettes and marijuana. According to preliminary results released by the National Drug Council from its 2022 Student Drug Use Survey, 41% of teenagers have tried alcohol at least once, 29% have smoked an e-cigarette and 14% of students […]
Officials switch to monthly reports for COVID-19 deaths
(CNS): Officials will no longer be reporting deaths in the Cayman Islands connected to COVID-19 in real time but on a monthly basis in the Public Health Spotlight. According to this month’s edition, released on Friday, there were no deaths related to the virus in January after two in December. Seventeen people admitted to the […]
