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Students and their households who are in the required 14 day quarantine and are not a known COVID positive case, are to be tested at the end of their quarantine period.
Patrick and April talk about local mask mandates in the context of international guidance. We also preview our reporting on racial divisions in Cayman’s school system.
Could the structure of our country’s education system be fostering racial divisions in younger generations that have not previously been a hallmark of Cayman Islands society?
“What I like to call subtle race-think and its harrowing consequences is very much alive and well in Cayman.” — UCCI Associate Professor Christopher Williams
“The Cayman Islands is a colonial society and like all colonial societies social stratification is firstly and foremostly based on that most potent symbol of colonialism: the white or near-white skin.” — historian and former UCCI President Roy Bodden
Starting Friday, 24 Sept., all students over the age of 5, and all staff, must wear masks inside public and private schools.
After nearly a decade leading CIFEC, Delores Thompson has stepped into a new role, focussed on a much younger demographic.
Mandatory masks, COVID-19 guidance, George Town Primary outbreak, and more!
The recent outbreak of COVID-19 cases has put the 28 Oct. UCCI Homecoming event on hold.
Vaccinations, masks and other measures are vital to keeping schools open while COVID-19 is present in the community, said two public health experts in the US.