A project to establish a helicopter base on Cayman Brac has run into strong opposition from many residents, property owners and environmental organisations.
The Chief Medical Officer, Dr. John Lee, reports that 355 COVID-19 tests have been carried out since this was last reported on Wednesday, 23 December 2020. One was positive.
Just after 2:20AM, today Thursday 24 December, police and other emergency services were dispatched to Canal Point Drive, George Town where it was reported that a man was found bleeding and unresponsive in the parking lot of the Strand.
With time running out, the United Kingdom and the European Union announced on Thursday that they had finally reached on a compromise on Brexit.
To further aid in the rebound of the Cayman economy and to alleviate the financial strain the pandemic has had on industries, the National Pensions (Amendment) Act 2020, in accordance with section 1(3) of that Law relating to the pension holiday, has been extended for an additional 6 months.
Following the amendment to the Pensions Law, which took place earlier this year during the Covid-19 lockdown crisis, people have been withdrawing up to CI$10,000 of their pension plus up to a quarter of the remaining balance, or the full amount if their pension was a total of CI$10,000 or less.
Independent Member of Parliament(MP) for North Side, Ezzard Miller, has set a Christmas Eve deadline for the government to set in motion the removal of Speaker of Parliament, McKeeva Bush
The Cayman Islands Government(CIG) says it is “currently assessing the situation with regards to the new strain of coronavirus identified in the UK.”
The American teenager Skylar Mack has had her prison sentence for breaching Cayman’s strict COVID-19 quarantine protocols cut by half on appeal.
As 2020 draws to a close the recent welcome news of vaccines being rolled out as the much-anticipated weapon against the COVID-19 pandemic is being challenged for headline billing with a series of related issues.