While many people were bracing themselves for/looking forward to (depending on perspective) the border opening last Saturday, it is more likely that the numbers of visitors to the Cayman Islands who will now not have to quarantine upon arrival will likely be very low initially.
The Cayman Islands Department of Tourism, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, Department of Environmental Health and private sector stakeholders, has developed updated sanitisation guidelines for the tourism sector, which are now available on the DOT’s website.
At last week’s press briefing, Tourism and Transport Minister, Kenneth Bryan, spoke about the official reinstatement of tourism into the Cayman Islands, which means incoming travellers to the Cayman Islands (visitors and returning residents alike) must follow new rules as per Phase 4....
While the government has said that Cayman’s hospitals are not currently overwhelmed by Covid patients, despite the recent steep rise in cases, they are still increasing hospital beds with the reassembling of the field hospital as well as dedicating more rooms at the George Town hospital to Covid....
The Covid-19 vaccination clinic will continue to administer booster shots to persons age 50 and over, the clinically vulnerable and healthcare workers.
At 8 a.m. on Tuesday, 23 November Chief Medical Officer Dr. John Lee reported that 1,382 PCR tests had been conducted since 8 a.m. on Monday, 22 November.
To coincide with the opening of Cayman’s borders once again, the first time in 20 months, Plastic Free Cayman hosted a beach clean event at South Sound dock on Saturday 20 November.
Every morning at 8 am sharp, the Cayman Islands Coastguards march out onto the parade ground at the coastguard base at the end of Hurst Road, for a centuries-old maritime tradition.
It was a great night for the movers of Cayman’s tourism industry to meet the shakers, when ten young Caymanians who were completing WineSchool3’s Shaker Bar course had the opportunity to showcase their skills at the Cayman Spirit Company in George Town WineSchool3, which has been putting....
George Town resident Dawn Bodden is the winner of the much-anticipated draw for $100,000 as donated by DMS, a draw in which all residents who had been vaccinated in the Cayman Islands were entered, with the winner randomly generated by computer.