A Citizen of the Air
Well, the most interesting thing that I have heard of this week is the story of the Jamaican couple who were on their way home to Jamaica on Cayman Airways when the woman, who was about seven months pregnant ended up delivering her baby inflight! I hear that she was assisted in the delivery by the flight attendants.
This happened earlier in the week, probably Tuesday, and I hear that the chat on the radio stations is about what the nationality of the baby will be. I was told that once the baby was born on a Cayman Airways flight, the baby will be deemed to have been born in Cayman. As such, the parents will have to apply for Jamaican citizenship for the child, if they want it. The child will not be deemed to be Caymanian, however. Based upon the law over here (as I have been told), if the mother of the child is not Caymanian, then the child will not be Caymanian.
Apparently there are many cases of kids being born here and living here all their lives and yet, not being Caymanian. They have to apply for status and citizenship when they attain the age of eighteen, and this may or may not be granted. I think this aspect of the law is a bit silly still. It can lead to a situation where a person can end up not being a citizen of anywhere! Of course, if any of you, my esteemed readers, knows more about the law than I and if I have been spouting rubbish, let us know in the comments.
Personally, I think the child should be deemed a citizen of Cayman Airways, and he or she should be able to free on Cayman Airways for the rest of their life! What do you think, Mr Strasburger? (Thats the CEO of Cayman Airways)
Ok, ok, how about half price? 
One of our friends from Jamaica was over here for a conference. We took her to dinner at Papagallos, a fine restaurant in the district of West Bay where we had a sumptuous meal, then we brought her home for drinks and of course, chatting.. It was great seeing her, but unfortunately, almost as soon as we get to see her, she is gone again! As I write this, she is winging her way home. I think its time some of our bredrins from Jamaica pay us a real visit, not just coming over on business. That way, we can really get to spend time with them.
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I say those without a clear citizen should be granted a special passport by the UN and be named citizen of the world giving them half price on all airline, plus free on the one they were born …. ooohh and there is more and also they should unlimited access to all member state of the UN….. well you did ask for our opinion
Is that an open invite to anyone (friends of course including blog friends hehe) interested in having a good time in cayman??
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Can’t help you with the legal dilemna there at all. I like Bobby’s suggestion though.
as far as i know it is too be avoided by national states that people dont belong to any nationality, therefor the child would be jamaican by being the child of jamaican parents rather than being without any nationality at all. (by the way, in case a person would actually not have an own nationality there are international agreements to apply for a specific passport for this case, although there would be no embassy responsible for them…)
I say we determine in whose airspace t he baby was born and presto…I heard that on some airlines you cant fly once you hit the 7 th month.Maybe they knew something
@ Kami : Actually, they got permission from a doctor to fly.
Dual citizenship - Cayman Airways and Jamaica with option to become MP in both.
Free flights for citizen and for all future descendants…. Cayman Airways advertising contract for life…….and and and
This story continues to be page one news as other doctors express shock and disbelief that the woman was given doctor’s permission to fly after 29 weeks and having had her water broke! Basically, the suggestion is that the baby’s life was put at risk simply because the parents were poor… Read all about it here : CLICK HERE
I think they just need to make the child caymanian and done
As Kami said, maybe they need to calculate which country the child was nearest to at birth and grant citizenship based on that.
Bobby’s suggestion is classical
I read this story this morning and shook my head in disbelief. The headline in the Jamaica Observer reads
Jamaican woman in labour kicked out of Cayman
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I can’t believe any doctor would really send her away from the hospital when this was a premature birth. What madness is this???
that was really poor if it happened the way the papers said.