Archive for November 3rd, 2016
Victims duped of cash in Cay-Jam hotel job scam
(CNS): A joint investigation between the Caymanian and Jamaican police into a financial scam, which cons job applicants out of false work permit fees of CI$400, is currently underway and the RCIPS Financial Crime Unit is warning people here to be on alert for the con. Several hundred people in Jamaica have applied to fraudulent job […]
Sex crime suspect accused of giving child victim STD
(CNS): A 56-year-old George Town man who is already on remand at HMP Northward for sexual offences was charged with more sex-related crimes Thursday. The man is accused of gross indecency as well as infecting his underage victim with a sexually transmitted disease, with the charge of committing a negligent act likely to spread an […]
Cops shoot dog as armed suspect arrested
(CNS): Armed police shot and killed what they described as “a large ferocious bulldog” which was set upon them by a suspect they believed was armed with a gun. A release from the RCIPS said that the incident occurred during one of several targeted operations Wednesday in relation to recent gang crime, in which five […]
Cruise tourist finds new species of ant in Cayman
(CNS): When James Wetterer docked in the Cayman Islands during his Caribbean cruise holiday in April he set off to see the sights, but he did not head to Seven Mile Beach or Stingray City. Instead, the professor at Florida’s Atlantic University headed for the nearest patch of red mangroves to continue his research, where […]
