Following the publication of the United States Coast Guard’s (USCG) Annual Report 2019 this week, the Cayman Islands Shipping Registry (Cayman Registry) is once again a Flag Administration that is featured as qualifying for USCG QUALSHIP 21 status.
With a warning of the grim reality of mass graves in countries with a severe COVID-19 outbreak, Chief Medical Officer Dr John Lee on Monday sent a strong message urging people to adhere to the ongoing restrictions on public gathering.
Although soft curfew conditions resume tomorrow at 5 a.m., Monday, 13 April 2020, allowing non-essential workers movement only for essential tasks, a hard curfew condition has been imposed prohibiting all persons from accessing all beaches and the coastline.
Premier of the Cayman Islands, Hon. Alden McLaughlin, says he is “really, really worried” about the risks of an escalation in the spread of COVID-19 in the territory.
How best to navigate the Cayman Islands out of a period of lockdown with alternating hard and soft curfews back into an open and thriving economy is the next big challenge on the Government’s to-do list.
As the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson recovers from suffering from coronavirus symptoms, his appreciation of the National Health Service has increased exponentially. Johnson, 55, was in intensive care in St Thomas’ Hospital from Monday and is making slow progress.
A Venezuelan navy coastal patrol boat sank in the Caribbean after allegedly ramming a cruise ship that it had ordered to change direction.
A former president of Honduras who was convicted in the FIFA soccer bribery scandal died in the United States on Saturday.
Cuba will shortly begin mass distributing a new medication which it has developed in a homeopathic way to help recovery from coronavirus.
The Philippines is allowing police to shoot dead anyone not adhering to the coronavirus curfew and one man has already lost his life. He was shot dead after he was scolded by a health official for not wearing a face mask.