Tag: Sabrina Turner

New minister offers support to fire chief designate

New minister offers support to fire chief designate

| 13/06/2022 | 22 Comments

(CNS): Home Affairs Minister Sabrina Turner, who was given the portfolio in April, has offered her support to Chief Fire Officer Designate Randy Rankin, who will take over from CFO Paul Walker when he leaves the Cayman Islands in September. Turner took over responsibility for the Ministry of Home Affairs from Bernie Bush in the […]

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‘I should have used my mask’ says health minister

‘I should have used my mask’ says health minister

| 19/04/2022 | 87 Comments

(CNS): Health Minister Sabrina Turner has admitted that she should have worn a face mask when she made “an impromptu” visit to the health clinic on Little Cayman last month and was caught on camera without a face covering. Turner said the clinic was closed when she stopped by to thank the staff and there […]

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Mask mandate remains in place, officials warn

Mask mandate remains in place, officials warn

| 08/04/2022 | 134 Comments

(CNS): Restaurants and bars that are telling customers they no longer need to have masks and whose staff are no longer covering their faces are breaking the COVID-19 regulations, Public Health officials have said.

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Mask mandate to remain until end of April

Mask mandate to remain until end of April

| 22/03/2022 | 156 Comments

(CNS): The government is not yet ready to lift any of its COVID-19 protocols and the health minister has indicated that even school children will need to continue wearing masks until at least the end of April. Sabrina Turner has said that Cabinet is still discussing the mask mandate for indoors, and with the return […]

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Public street fitness park opens on 7MB

Public street fitness park opens on 7MB

| 21/03/2022 | 27 Comments

(CNS): Government officials opened the Calisthenics Park last week on crown land at the Seven Mile Public Beach. The 5,575 sqft outdoor fitness facility, which is open to the public, was donated by local businessman Phillip Schlossstein and will be maintained and managed by the Cayman Islands Government. Calisthenics is a form of strength training […]

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Turner pushes kids vaccine as virus cases plummet

Turner pushes kids vaccine as virus cases plummet

| 28/02/2022 | 129 Comments

(CNS): Just 44 new cases of SARS-CoV-2 were reported to the Public Health Department over the weekend, as the official figures relating to the virus move into a rapid decline. There are now an estimated 957 active cases of the virus, and the seven-day rolling average, as of 28 February, fell to 40 cases.

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Health City breaks ground on new $100M hospital

Health City breaks ground on new $100M hospital

| 27/01/2022 | 97 Comments

(CNS): Government officials and Dart executives were out in force Thursday morning for the official ‘golden shovel’ moment when Health City Cayman Islands, the hospital founded by world-renowned Indian heart surgeon, Devi Shetty, broke ground on a new facility south of Camana Bay. The new 70,000 sqft state-of-the-art hospital will be built on three acres […]

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Isolators warned they must get official PCR exit test

Isolators warned they must get official PCR exit test

| 21/01/2022 | 221 Comments

(CNS): Health Minister Sabrina Turner said at Thursday’s press briefing that people who have tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus who leave isolation before getting an official PCR exit test, regardless of how long they have been in quarantine, will be prosecuted. Those who have left isolation without getting the formal test are being selfish, […]

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Bars, clubs to close by midnight in face of Omicron

Bars, clubs to close by midnight in face of Omicron

| 16/12/2021 | 254 Comments

(CNS): The government will be rolling out new regulations forcing bar, club and restaurant owners to close by midnight every evening until New Year’s Eve as a way of preventing a potential new and explosive wave of COVID-19 infections related to the Omicron variant. During Thursday’s press briefing, Medical Officer of Health Dr Samuel Williams-Rodriguez […]

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Returning locals not tourists pose greater threat

Returning locals not tourists pose greater threat

| 20/11/2021 | 194 Comments

(CNS): Returning residents, and not tourists, will present the biggest risk to the rest of the community when it comes to the spread of COVID-19, now that vaccinated travellers are no longer required to quarantine on arrival. Health Minister Sabrina Turner said it won’t be tourists visiting elderly relatives, moving from bar to bar, delivering […]

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Public Health still struggling to cope

Public Health still struggling to cope

| 19/11/2021 | 126 Comments

(CNS): Tasked with dealing with the fallout from the worsening local outbreak of COVID-19, the Public Health Department is still short handed and the health ministry is continuing to shuffle staff and resources to enable the department to cope with its workload. From manning the Flu Hotline and PCR testing to reporting the numbers and […]

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