Tag: breach of quarantine
Canadian writer stays in jail over isolation breach
(CNS): The Grand Court, acting as the summary appeal court, has upheld what is believed to be only the second jail sentence handed down to a person breaching COVID-19 home-isolation rules. Thomas Michael, a screenwriter from Canada who arrived in the Cayman Islands in March to work on a film project, was given 30 days […]
7 people involved in COVID-19 isolation breach
(CNS): Six people have reportedly been caught by the Travel Cayman compliance team breaching the home isolation protocols for COVID-19 and have been placed into a government quarantine facility, along with an additional contact of the group. Officials said the breach was reported on Tuesday, 13 April, when the monitors, acting on information from a […]
Two in quarantine lockdown after isolation breach
(CNS): Government officials have reported that was another alleged breach of COVID-19 isolation protocols on Wednesday, when, during a routine welfare check, the Travel Cayman Mobile Compliance Team found an unauthorised visitor at a residence where a traveller was in isolation. The incident has been reported to the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service (RCIPS), who […]
Two groups of travellers breach isolation rules
(CNS): Travel Cayman has confirmed two recent, separate instances of alleged breaches of COVID-19 isolation protocols by travellers, both of which were discovered during routine checks. While it is not clear how many travellers were involved, all were found to be in an unapproved area of the quarantine property. Both instances were discovered during a […]
Teenager charged over COVID-19 isolation breaches
(CNS): Several months after allegedly breaching COVID-19 isolation protocols at least twice, on one occasion by climbing from a bedroom window using sheets, a teenager has been charged. Aaron Montemayor (19) was said to have been positive for the virus when he left isolation in December. Officials have been reluctant to confirm the situation surrounding […]
Officials reveal another isolation breach
(CNS): Travel Cayman has revealed another alleged breach of isolation protocols by a member of the public and a traveller who was quarantining at residence. This contact, which is now under police investigation, was discovered by the Travel Cayman Mobile Compliance team during routine checks. The member of the public has now been placed in […]
Officials deny additional isolation breaches
(CNS): Two people have been placed in quarantine and could be facing prosecution after visiting a yard where an unspecified number of travellers were in COVID isolation on Cayman Brac recently. However, officials have denied reports of two other separate breaches over the last two weeks on Grand Cayman. In the Brac case, the unauthorised […]
Roper: Isolation breaches complex but system works
(CNS): Some of the quarantine and isolation breaches that are being investigated by the RCIPS “are quite complex” as people’s situations are very different, Governor Martyn Roper said during Thursday’s press briefing. He asked for people to be patient and have faith in the system, and that where there is evidence of a breach, people […]
Appeal court supports jail for COVID breachers
(CNS): The Cayman Islands Court of Appeal has backed the need to send isolation breachers to jail and stressed that it should “now be clear” to all that breaking COVID-19 regulations here will land you in prison. In written reasons on why the higher court reduced the four month prison sentence handed down by the […]
Mack and Ramgeet release date set
(CNS): The couple jailed last month after breaching COVID-19 isolation regulations will be released, as scheduled, on 15 January. Government officials confirmed Thursday that both Skylar Mack (18), a visitor from the state of Georgia, and Vanjae “VJ” Ramgeet, a local Jet Ski competitor, will leave prison in just over one week, having served half […]
VJ and Skylar remain in jail
(CNS): Both Skylar Mack and Vanjae Ramgeet remain in jail, Prison Director Steve Barrett has confirmed to CNS. The governor’s office has also stated that they have not been released and no pardon has been given by that office. Expected to serve another three weeks in HMP Fairbanks and HMP Northward respectively, the notoriety of […]
