“It’s almost like everyone is in jail in their own country.” Sombre words from the Cayman Islands Hon. Minister for Health, Dwayne Seymour.
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.
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The Government of Barbados on Friday, 10 April 2020 obtained 20,000 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test kits for COVID-19 at cost from the Government of the Cayman Islands.
Seniors in the Bodden Town area are receiving regular cooked breakfasts thanks to an initiative from Her Majesty’s Cayman Islands Prison Service (HMCIPS).
The Cayman Islands could see a gradual reopening but a lot depends on containing the spread of COVID-19 locally.
On Sunday, the public was notified that although soft curfew conditions resumed at 5 a.m., Monday, 13 April 2020, allowing non-essential workers movement only for essential tasks, a hard curfew condition was been imposed prohibiting all persons from accessing all beaches and the coastline.
The Registrar of Non-Profit Organisations (NPOs) is advising charitable entities in the Cayman Islands to protect against fraudulent activities during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
The Chamber has commended the Cayman Islands Government on the initiatives that have recently been announced to support small and micro businesses in our community.
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.