Tropical Storm Gonzalo continued its westerly path towards the southern Windward Islands on Friday afternoon with the likelihood that it could remain a Tropical Storm over the weekend.
As part of a “comprehensive reopening strategy”, the government says it has engaged US-based biotech company BioIntelliSense, to provide visitors with a wearable health-monitoring device.
In partnership with the Cayman Islands Government, additional repatriation flights have been added for travel in July and August between Grand Cayman and Miami, as well as Kingston, aboard Cayman Airways.
The Cayman Islands will start gradually reopening from September.
This was confirmed on Friday by Hon. Deputy Premier and Minister for Tourism Moses Kirkconnell on Friday
Cayman is gradually reopening and at the same time rapidly realising that things will not be the same for some time yet, and possibly for the foreseeable future.
TravelTime is a single point of registration to streamline travel until the borders are reopened to normal commercial travel. TravelTime will coordinate travel as well as manage the Government Isolation facilities for persons returning to the Cayman Islands.
“The increase of imports are directly linked to travel restrictions, so the normal baggage imports by passengers are now being routed through couriers and other consolidated cargo imports” stated CBC Deputy Director Kevin Walton.
When the Hon. Minister for Lands Juliana O’Connor-Connolly invoked legendary Barbados and Caribbean social commentary song ‘Jack’ by Gabby, it was a signal that the beach access issue is still quite alive in Cayman.
A big British Airways plane sat on ORIA runway glinting in the afternoon sun, awaiting 270 Indian Nationals to get on board for the first stage of their long flight home on Friday 3 July.
The Cayman Islands National Emergency Operations Centre has been charting the success of its ‘Operation Bring ‘Em Home’, a repatriation and evacuation logistics undertaking in which it has arranged travel for over 3,400 persons to date into and out of Cayman due to the coronavirus pandemic.