On Saturday, 30 January, the Cayman Islands Little League Association (CILLA), in partnership with the YMCA of the Cayman Islands launch its public fundraising campaign at the Field of Dreams.
The Cayman Islands Bureau of Financial Investigations (CIBFI) has secured court orders freezing US$200 million, in what the authorities describe as “a significant contribution to combatting money laundering and related offences”.
The Chief Medical Officer, Dr. John Lee, reports that 487 COVID-19 tests have been carried out since this was last reported on Friday, 5 February 2021. Three were positive.
HE Governor Martyn Roper is being called on by the LGBTQ+ rights organisation Colours Cayman to investigate a series of conflicting statements from the Judicial Administration office about public access to information about an ongoing judicial review.
Cayman Islands Customs and Border Control (CBC) confirms that a vessel with migrants arrived in Cayman Brac this afternoon with a total of 6 persons, 4 males and 2 females.
Following checks conducted by the RCIPS at certain business establishments, including nightclubs and bars, several of these establishments were found to be in breach of the Private Security Services Act by employing security personnel who were not licenced or whose licenses were expired.
With more than half of persons over 60 already vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus, the government says it's aiming for a 90 per cent threshold of that age group as a target to ease the quarantine restrictions and ultimately reopening the borders.
Tourism industry workers who have been receiving a stipend from the government since last year will get an extra CI$500 from this month.
A third and larger shipment of the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine is due in Cayman from the UK on the British Airways flight arriving on February 11th.
It has emerged that there are some pockets of COVID vaccine resistance from within the over-60s age group and the government is now appealing to the churches to assist in getting them converted to the campaign.