Archive for October 13th, 2016
Man charged with stealing stove, washer & A/C unit
(CNS): A 52-year-old man from George Town was charged Tuesday with two burglaries. Miguel Diaz is accused of breaking into and stealing booze from a home on North Sound Road in the capital on 20 August, and of breaking into a home in West Bay on 12 September and making off with a stove, a […]
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Cops track stolen goods within hours of break-in
(CNS): Officers investigating a break-in Wednesday evening at a condo complex in West Bay recovered the stolen items within two hours, though they have not made any arrests. The police said that they responded to the burglary report at about 4:30pm yesterday at Coco Breeze Close in West Bay. The day-time break-in was discovered when the […]
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Second pregnant woman contracts Zika
(CNS): Just days after public health officials announced that there had not been any new confirmed local transmissions of the Zika virus for some two weeks, a new test result has revealed that a pregnant woman in George Town has now tested positive for the virus transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito. The patient acquired […]
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Scammers use premier as Facebook bait
(CNS): The police are warning the public to be on alert for the latest online scam being perpetrated by fraudsters. Officers from the RCIPS Financial Crimes Unit said fraudulent Facebook pages that purport to belong to Cayman Islands Premier Alden McLaughlin were being used as a means of soliciting cash from people who visit what they […]
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Fisherman admits jealousy-fueled attack
(CNS): A Honduran fisherman being held in Cayman on drug charges was jailed for six years by a judge Thursday for an attack in a jealous rage on a “defenceless woman”, committed while he was on bail. Meleton Rosales Maick (59) stabbed his victim in January at her own home after a party, at which […]
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Driver jailed for two years for killing jogger
(CNS): Donovan Kellyman (26) was jailed Thursday after he received a two-year sentence for causing the death of Marcia Donaldson in April 2015 following an early morning collision in South Sound. The George Town man, who pleaded guilty in July to causing death while driving under the influence and careless driving, was taken into custody […]
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Defendant points finger at CIG leaders in status con
(CNS): Prosecutors say Paul Anthony Hume Ebanks, who is accused of stealing over $167,000 from around two dozen people over a three-year period, told his alleged victims that he was working for former premier McKeeva Bush, former MLA Cline Glidden and Deputy Governor Franz Manderson when he conned them out of $2,000 per person in […]