The Overstayer Amnesty will come to an end on 31 October and Customs and Border Control (CBC) and Workforce Opportunities and Residency Cayman (WORC) are encouraging persons who have overstayed due to COVID-19 to take the necessary steps to get regularised before it ends.
Early on Saturday morning a small army of hundreds of volunteers of all ages put on their gloves and assembled in little groups at the side of the beach, or park or road, as part of the annual Chamber of Commerce Earth Day Cleanup, which this year had been delayed by covid-19.
The Chief Medical Officer, Dr John Lee, reports 193 COVID-19 tests have been carried out since this was last reported on Friday, 19 September. One (1) was positive.
Europe is currently seeing a huge resurgence in Covid cases, the UK has placed millions of people under local lockdown due to worrying increases there and the US has yet to get to grips with Covid, with the highest incidence and deaths anywhere in the world.
“They felt the system was comprehensive and worked very well,” he said about the feedback from the returning residents and the BA flight crew.
The 2020 Atlantic Hurricane season is just one storm name away from becoming only the second time in history that the National Hurricane Centre(NHC) will have had to resort to using the Greek alphabet to name storms.
A British Airways flight arriving this Thursday September 17th will be used to test the passenger arrivals screening system due to come into force when the borders are gradually reopened starting October 1st.
The Ministry of Education, Youth, Sports, Agriculture and Lands (MEYSAL) and The Youth Services Unit (YSU) have formally welcomed Jorel Bellafonte and Zoe Conolly-Basdeo as the newly appointed CARICOM Youth Ambassadors for the Cayman Islands.
The Marriott, Department of Tourism (DOT) and Work Opportunities and Residency Cayman (WORC) all got together on Tuesday and Wednesday to reach out to many of the tourism-sector workers who have been displaced because of COVID as well as those who might want to look for jobs in the industry....
Back-to-school after the summer break can often be a challenge for students under normal circumstances as they get their brains back into gear after the long recess period, but this year they have had the added challenge of dealing with a raft of safety measures put in place....