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The parents of a baby born on a Cayman Airways en route to Jamaica on October 2, say they are facing difficulties with registering the child's birth.
The birth of Lateisha Julene Clarke created a major stir in the Cayman Islands.
The Jamaican mother, Shellesha Woodstock said a doctor at the George Town Hospital in Grand Cayman convinced her to travel to Jamaica to have the baby.
She says the decision was made based on the high cost of delivering a premature baby in the Cayman Islands.
After the midair birth, mother and child were taken to the Cornwall Regional Hospital after landing in Montego Bay.
But according to Ms. Woodstock, officials at the hospital said the baby could not be registered there as she was not born at the institution.
Ms Woodstock said she was asked to contact the Registrar General's Department in Spanish Town but that was another roadblock.
A source at the General Registry in the Cayman Islands said the nationality of the child would be determined by the airspace of the country that the flight was in when the baby was delivered.
Procedures and recommendations for how properly to classify the geographic details of an in-air birth vary from country to country.
The United Nations considers a child born in-flight to have been born in the airplane's registered country.
And Head of the Registrar-General's Department in Jamaica, Dr. Patricia Holness, says she is awaiting a report from the authorities in Cayman to determine the child's nationality.
The birth of Lateisha Julene Clarke created a major stir in the Cayman Islands.
The Jamaican mother, Shellesha Woodstock said a doctor at the George Town Hospital in Grand Cayman convinced her to travel to Jamaica to have the baby.
She says the decision was made based on the high cost of delivering a premature baby in the Cayman Islands.
After the midair birth, mother and child were taken to the Cornwall Regional Hospital after landing in Montego Bay.
But according to Ms. Woodstock, officials at the hospital said the baby could not be registered there as she was not born at the institution.
Ms Woodstock said she was asked to contact the Registrar General's Department in Spanish Town but that was another roadblock.
A source at the General Registry in the Cayman Islands said the nationality of the child would be determined by the airspace of the country that the flight was in when the baby was delivered.
Procedures and recommendations for how properly to classify the geographic details of an in-air birth vary from country to country.
The United Nations considers a child born in-flight to have been born in the airplane's registered country.
And Head of the Registrar-General's Department in Jamaica, Dr. Patricia Holness, says she is awaiting a report from the authorities in Cayman to determine the child's nationality.