Cayman Airways Limited (CAL) has cancelled all flights for Monday September 26, 2022 due to the current path of Tropical Storm Ian and the closure of airports in the Cayman Islands from 4pm Sunday September 25.
Between Friday 23 September and early Saturday morning Saturday 24 September, police were dispatched by the 9-1-1 Communications Centre to three firearm related incidents across Grand Cayman
Water Authority - Cayman would like to urge all customers to complete all necessary hurricane preparations and
seek shelter as soon as possible.
The public is being advised that as of 1pm 24 September, Grand Cayman is under a Hurricane Warning.
The Cayman Islands remains under Hurricane Watch, as Tropical Storm Ian continues to move through the Caribbean Sea.
Further to the issuance of a Hurricane Alert by the Cayman Islands Government and forecast for inclement weather set to affect the Islands beginning on Sunday, 25 September, through Monday, 26 September, the following hurricane shelters have been activated:
Tropical Storm Ian has developed in the Caribbean Sea and may become a serious hurricane threat for the northwestern Caribbean and Southeast U.S. next week, including Florida.
Hurricane concerns are sweeping throughout the Western Caribbean region as a tropical storm develops at the start of the week which led to Cayman Islands Governor Martyn Roper issuing a public warning.
On Friday, 23 September 2022, the Health Services Authority confirmed one COVID-19 related death in the Sister Islands. The individual had severe comorbidities and was unvaccinated.
At 4pm the centre of Tropical Depression 9 was located near latitude 14.7 ° north and longitude 71.3° west. This puts it at 737 miles SE of the Cayman Islands.
The system is moving west northwest at near 15 miles per hour, with maximum sustained winds near 35 miles per hour.