The Department of Education Services (DES) advises that its office will close during the upcoming Christmas/New Year Holiday Season as follows....
The Omicron variant of the virus which causes COVID-19 has been detected, through genomic sequencing, in a test sample from a traveller currently in isolation/quarantine in the Cayman Islands.
At 8 a.m. on Wednesday, 15 December Chief Medical Officer (Interim) Dr. Autilia Newton reported that 864 PCR tests had been conducted since 8 a.m. on Tuesday, 14 December.
Christmas is quickly approaching and the build up to the festive season can be quite a stressful one as we prepare for a busy period of entertaining.
Updates to regulations impacting travel were announced over the weekend. These changes to regulations will reduce the COVID-19 testing window for all passengers travelling into the Cayman Islands as well as unvaccinated persons travelling to the Sister Islands from Grand Cayman.
With the budget done and dusted, the borders finally reopened to international travel, cruises under consideration, Delta on the wane and Omicron still at bay, one might think the real pressure is now off the PACT government.
On 30 November, Grant Thornton Cayman Islands presented the Cayman Islands Humane Society and YMCA of the Cayman Islands with a cheque for over US$9,200 each further to fundraising efforts from their annual golf event.
Workforce Opportunities & Residency Cayman (WORC) advises the public of their operational hours for the Christmas season. WORC will close at 12:30pm on Friday, 17 December to facilitate a staff luncheon.
Cayman Islands Customs and Border Control Service (CBC) confirms that a vessel with 3 migrants arrived in Cayman Brac this morning.
On Monday evening, 13 December, police received a report of an armed robbery which had taken place early that morning, around 05.50am, in the vicinity of Shedden Road & Eastern Avenue, George Town.