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Panton maintains vaccination push; puts education, environment top of agenda Plans reform of work permits, increase in minimum wage From ensuring local school children are fed, to plans to reform work-permit fees, Premier Wayne Panton outlined his administration’s road map for the Cayman Islands Wednesday in his Strategic Policy Statement. Panton, however, also used the opportunity to remind people that none of the government’s plans can be implemented if they do not hit the vaccination target of 80% of the population and get the economy rolling again. “I am begging everyone in this co...

 Honourable Gaston Browne, Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda and Chairman of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community; Dr. the Honourable Keith Rowley, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago and Outgoing Chairman; Your Excellencies, Heads of State and Government of the Caribbean Community; Other Heads of Delegation; Heads of Regional and International Institutions; Delegates; People of the Caribbean Community. I welcome you all to the Forty-Second Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). Unfortunately, as h...

Premier Wayne Panton has described the UK’s decision to keep the Cayman Islands on its amber travel list as ‘unfair’. In a statement, Panton said when Cayman was first placed on the amber list last month, he wrote to UK Secretary of State for Transport Grant Shapps, outlining “Cayman’s amazing record of remaining free of COVID for 327 days and the fact that we now have the ability to do genome sequencing to identify variants in positive COVID results”. Panton said the government would continue its push to get Cayman on the green list when it is reviewed again in three weeks.

Cayman Compass Premier Wayne Panton says the Cayman Islands plans to push the United Kingdom to add the islands to its green travel list, which comes into effect on 17 May. Cayman was excluded from the list of 12 countries and jurisdictions, including four British Overseas Territories, from which travellers flying into England will not be required to quarantine. Speaking at a vaccination drive at Owen Roberts International Airport on Saturday, Panton told the Cayman Compass it was disappointing that Cayman remained on the amber list and had not been upgraded to the green list. Premier Wayn...

Author of the article: Fran Golden Publishing date: Apr 26, 2021  •  1 hour ago  •  5 minute read  •  Article content (Bloomberg) — On April 12, activists in Juneau, Alaska, filed paperwork to limit cruise traffic to the city’s picturesque port, where more than 1.2 million passengers disembarked in 2019. When cruising returns, it’s expected to host about 620 ships, bringing more than 1.3 million to the last frontier state. The citizens argue that many passengers coming ashore during the summer season changes the way of life in the city...