The Cayman Islands moves into a new phase of opening as from 1st October when its borders reopen to a small number of flights from the UK on British Airways and also regular flights from the United States on Cayman Airways.
There’s a palpable feeling of relief rippling across Cayman amidst the remnants of gusty winds that swept across the islands over the past few days after what became Category 4 Hurricane Delta gave the islands an uncomfortably close shave.
Tropical Storm Delta made Cayman’s residents flock Fosters, Hurleys and Kirks supermarket on Monday as panic buying fever struck. At Fosters, Countryside, the traffic backed and there was nowhere to park at 8 am.
Lots of fellow students from Clifton Hunter High School, along with teachers too, let 13-year old Derron Hernandez know for sure that just because he is fighting cancer and undergoing a course chemotherapy of in the States, he is not alone.
The Cayman Islands has become the 19th Participating State of the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA), with official admission effective September 1, 2020.
The following statement can be attributed to Jude Scott, CEO of Cayman Finance: “The EU’s recognition of the Cayman Islands as cooperative on both transparency and fair taxation is an important validation of Cayman’s commitment to a responsible policy of tax neutrality....
The Cayman Islands has been taken off the European Union’s ‘blacklist’ of countries it describes as non-cooperative jurisdictions for tax purposes.
The Chief Medical Officer, Dr John Lee, reports 131 COVID-19 tests have been carried out since this was last reported on Monday, 5 October. All were negative.
The Department of Environmental Health (DEH) wishes to inform the public that notwithstanding the interruption to operations due to the storm, the planning and hard work by staff has allowed DEH to continue collection services with minimal disruption.
The road ahead will require deft navigation in financial management at the personal and business level, and economic management at the government level as some concessions run out and some bills become due.