Of these, there are a total of 23 positive tests comprising nine travellers and 14 positive tests from the community, which include 10 children.
Just after 1:10AM on Monday morning 11 October the RCIPS Firearms Response Unit responded to a 911-Emegrency dispatch to a report of shots being fired in the area of Finch Drive, West Bay.
Shortly before 4:40PM on Friday, 8 October, officers responded to a report of a wounding at a business plaza on Bodden Town Road, east of Lake Destiny Drive.
With an additional 15 positive PCR test results reported on Wednesday, Cayman has surpassed 1,000 COVID-19 cases since the outbreak of the pandemic last year.
10th September was observed, as it is every year, as World Suicide Prevention Day, and Cayman’s organisation that helps young people in particular with mental illness, the Alex Panton Foundation, has useful advice and resources for preventing the possibility of suicide in the community.
Cayman Turtle Centre released two turtles, ‘Speedy,’ and ‘Sweetie,’ from Governor’s beach in honour of World Animal Day, on the fourth of October.
A pilot project to see if lateral flows can help reduce the time people have to isolate for people caught up in the local community Covid-19 outbreaks is to take place this weekend, when all households having to isolate who don’t have positive cases will take these speedier tests.
His Excellency the Governor, Mr. Martyn Roper, the Premier, Hon Mr. Wayne Panton, and Deputy Governor, Hon. Franz Manderson all came to the Wharf Restaurant where Cayman Islands Veterans Association (CIVA) were launching their annual Poppy Appeal.
The UK, especially England, could face a reimposition of some COVID restrictions if cases continue to rise.
According to data shared by the Department of Environment, between 1976 and 2018, 72% of the mangrove habitat in western Grand Cayman, spanning from Savannah to West Bay, have already been lost and the central mangrove wetlands of South Sound are at increasing threat of being added to this loss.