Have to point out that Cayman is 3 islands. Whilst i agree we need to fix the education to really do anything here, that is a long term solution which will need money in the short term to begin to fix. This above represents the short term.

Can the writer and others who support a continuation of the lockdown please provide how they expect the Government (as it will have to be them) to provide enough money for all those people who will be without a job (the thousands at Atlantis, BahaMar, all the other hotels, taxi drivers, tour operators, vendors, retail stores, restaurants, bars and on and on). That is support these people until a vaccine is found. This will be with us for a while, coming back in waves. WE as a country do not have the luxury of not opening, unless you want a complete collapse of society and all the additional problems that brings (try running PMH if the Government has no money).

A big fuss was made because it became political. Thats all. If a certain party did not think they could get mileage out of it this would have been non news. But they thought they could and they did. Don't worry if the shoe had been on the other foot the FNM would have done the same.

Why is it so hard. If a company has paid their NIB then NIB knows who works there. If the company says they are all furloughed then NIB knows who has been furloughed. Then that person applies with their bank details and presto they get paid. There is no point in NIB patting themselves on the back if people have been waiting since March to get their benefits. Sort that out and then consider patting yourselves on the back (though no need to as all you have done is your job).

I can't understand why he has not added Exuma, Eleuthera, San Salvador and Berries to the list. all of these are the same as the other islands which have been opened up. If it is true some of these are due to a motorcade then that is spiteful. If they haven't had any cases yet and you are making sure only healthy people can travel then why keep them closed. At the start we were told we would close until we flattened the curve. This has happened and still we are closed. Is the plan to see if you can make the country broke?

All great but Nassau is collapsing as well, which means there will be no money to fund the family islands anyway.

They need to do mass testing. This is a lazy way out which doesn't even solve the problem. Those showing today were infected 10-14 days ago. All along this government has not done major testing. Bimini is an ideal place to do this as the population is small. The first case was there in March, as such many others outside the 13 have probably already had it. but without testing they will never know. Seems we will shut down whole islands without knowing if most people have already had it. If we don't have enough maybe they should invite more forefingers to come over if they bring testing equipment.

This probably means that they will bypass. Normal tough talk by Government to put it in the peoples mind that this may happen and then one day it will.

Its taken almost 9 months for you to realize this? Why did you not say so at the start?. Why did you not get outside help, or explain why the cost constraints meant that you couldn't. Why does this country always have useless ministers of works?

How is Abaco A cash cow compared to Nassau. If Abaco is such a cash cow then let them pay real property like those in Nassau do.