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Venezuelan leaders asked to step down
Venezuela’s president and political opponent have been asked to stand down by the United States administration.
Venezuela’s president and political opponent have been asked to stand down by the United States administration.
In accordance with the Cayman Islands Government’s ongoing measures to safeguard the Cayman Islands from the Coronavirus (COVID-19), commercial passenger flights between Grand Cayman and the Sister Islands have been reduced to one flight per week.
The unrelenting upward creep continues in the number of people testing positive for COVID-19 in the Cayman Islands.
As the rise of new Covid 19 infections takes set in Grand Cayman, a mass exodus of foreign work permit holders has meant that prices of rental properties is going down significantly.
Shortly after 7:40PM on Tuesday, 31 March, officers were dispatched by the 9-1-1 Communications Centre to a burglary report at an address on South Church Street, George Town.
“When fisherman cannot go to sea, they repair nets.” That bit of sage advice quoted from popular Australia-based travel writer Nabil Sabio Azadi is being used as the template to prepare Cayman and other Caribbean tourist destinations for life after COVID-19.
The British Airways flight arrived in Grand Cayman this afternoon. The flight carried vital supplies for the Islands including urgent pharmaceuticals, personal protective equipment and test kits.
With tourism industry workers feeling the extreme hardship of necessary business closures during the COVID-19 pandemic, The Wharf and Grand Old House restaurants are currently providing some easing for industry workers in the form of daily meals.
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.
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.