Police receive more beach theft reports
Public Beach on Seven Mile Beach, Grand Cayman
(CNS): The police received two reports yesterday of bags being stolen while the owners were swimming along Seven Mile Beach. Both happened in the Public Beach area, one in the morning and one in the evening. The first report involved a beach bag that had been stolen after it was left on the sand while the owner went swimming just north of Public Beach. The rectangular bag, which is turquoise with navy blue and white stripes, contained cash and an iPhone.
The theft of the second bag was reported to police around 7:30pm. That bag contained a BLU smart phone and an iPhone, as well as car keys and other personal items. Police again urged the public to try not to leave their belongings unattended while enjoying the beach, and to keep valuables locked away out of sight in their vehicles where possible.
The two thefts come less than two weeks after thieves made off with a tourist’s back-pack from the beach in the same area. Police did not state whether or not the latest thefts involved visitors or residents.
Anyone with information regarding these thefts is asked to call George Town Police Station at 949-4222. Anonymous tips can be provided to the RCIPS Confidential Tip Line at 949-777, the Miami-based call centre of Crime Stoppers at 800-8477(TIPS), or online here.
The police have too much to do with the rampant local criminals in West Bay and out East to stop this. Time to draw resources away from this lawless places and protect the SMB corridor better.
Grand Cayman is doomed. The island will be / is becoming a low-end (but expensive) Caribbean island. Gone ate the great days. RIP
I walk the beach every morning and evening and I have to say the national treasure of seven mile beach is a national disgrace ! There is no enforcement or anything ? The litter ( every morning ) includes beer bottles pizza boxes etc etc is disgusting. The beach chair vendors need to move there chairs every evening behind the gazebos ? When sitting in the gazebos, you can’t even see the damn ocean just piles of sun beds ? Moving these every day should be a mandatory requirement to get you T and B ( assuming they now have one) even early am you can clearly smell ganja ..if you don’t stop the small stuff this situation will only get worse ..gets. Grip cayman because SMB is really all you have left !!!
Cayman is just going downhill. All I read is negative news on expats and locals, crime and alot of indecency. You think you a jewel in the world but you just following suit with the rest of the world. Foots artwork is imported indecency. Carry on Cayman you just self destructing!
What does his art work have to do with robberies in Cayman? 😐
Lord know we have enough indecency of our own. That’s why Foot’s repels is.
It is all the fault of the entitlement-fuelled mediocre local nationalist brigade.
You got a real pretty mouth.
Sure do, sweetheart, too pretty for the likes of you.
It will only get worse, because the police are not going to get out of their AC vehicles to patrol beaches and Gov don’t care much either.
Willing to bet expats/ wp holders/ those applying for PR will get the blame for this anyway! Aren’t they the reason for all of Caymans issues? ?
Grow up.
I seen three Jamaican young girls eyeing my family beach bag when we were swimming the only thing that stop them from stealing it is that they seen us looking, looks like school girls on summer here and ask how I know they were from there I heard them talking.
Every summer Jamaicans working here bring their kids over , and they take advantage of our relaxed attitude to crime.
And we let them come visa free all while Jamaica requires Caymanian children to have visas to visit Jamaica. WTF?
2:50 pm, you are right because the Politicians makes the rules and we fools keep voting them back in.
Yep, I “seen” that nearly all the criminals in Northward are Jamaican….they just have Caymanian names and were born here to Caymanian parents.
You mean just like the person recently deported and leaving his gun in a toilet tank?
Is that why our headlines read as such – joint forces unit in Windsor park finds a young Jamaican gunman wanted for murder less than 12 months ago??
Beach patrons should start putting those paint splatter packs in their bags with little alarms, so when the thieves open them, the paint will explode in their face and be really hard to come off, without someone noticing. Those paint packs should be laced with some extra hot pepper spray too, and burn them so bad they have to go to the hospital. Lord forgive me,but my blood boils, with how disgusting these people are. What I would do if I caught one of them.
If this was just north of public beach, was this Calico Jack’s, or the Kimpton? Do they not have security CCTV they can roll back? If not, why not?
You people and Government must like crime, for nothing is done about it. when i say that criminals should be more severely punished, like in Singapore, you shoot it down. People always does what works for them, and doing crime is working for them. very little punishment, like a few weeks in Hotel Northward, then out and in again.
We hand out a tourist magazines to all air passengers departing from Miami to Cayman. We need to include a prominent warning about this beach theft as it is now endemic.
Anyone on the beach seeing an obvious scrounger wandering along the beach should keep an eye on him, as he certainly won’t be out there for exercise.
When do people ever randomly walk on the beach… oh wait, come on folks common sense unless you see the person stealing something and running off, you cannot just assume the person is a thief, if an “obvious scrounger” as you put it was so easy to spot then why hasn’t the person been caught? This is what fear does to people, everyone is the enemy, Common sense Cayman
Have police patrol the beaches on horseback, seen it elsewhere and it works. Also good PR for the police, kids interact with the officers and the horses.
Easy to give chase on horseback, plus have back up officers on 4 wheelers or motor bike on the main beach raods.
Criminals are sure costing the Tax payers in this country a lot of money and they don,t even realize it. Poor Cayman, sad, very sad.
It’s >100’F outside…horses are live animals and get tired and need water and rest. How many pretty PR laps of SMB are the rider and ridee supposed to undertake without replenishment? The logistics don’t suit the situation. Beach Segway X2 SE’s would be slightly better idea, but even they can’t run more than 12mi without recharge. Something needs to be done though.
It’s illegal to ride a horse on Seven Mile Beach.
I suppose they will certainly be able to travel faster on horseback, but how many policemen are trained horseriders, and is there room at Police HQ for stables, or would they use the old lockup which admittedly, would not need any modification.
Let them ride atvs for heavens sake. This is so easy I cant think why its not being done.
Go get a diaper, fold your valuables inside of it before you go take a swim… nobody’s going to steal what looks like a dirty diaper on the beach! There you go, problem solved! (what are the chances the thieves are reading these comments… or can even read at all??)
Take a two inside the diaper before folding it, then wash and repeat.
this is the end of Cayman now. what a crying shame!!!
Undercover police is needed on the beach and out on sea (especially up at Rumpoint/Star Fish Point/Kaibo). Enforcement in regards to those pesty, irritating vendors is needed as well. Why are we always a step behind instead of two steps ahead of the game?
“Ole pirates, yes they rob I …” (RNM)
at west bay public there are all kind of unlawful activities going on there, drug selling , men being fresh with tourist women
. majority of these people are wasters who do nothing but look for the break to steal.
please RCIP have some officer stationed there at all times, they are needed urgently
Only if they can sit in a comfortable air conditioned area and be guaranteed to not have to move.
They don’t care abt those older no goods folks – they want to ruin the youth of cayman more.
I think that the time has come that we not only depend on the Police , but we Citizens get involved to help take care of these low life scumbag criminals . The things that we ask the Police to do we could do it too . There are such a thing called a Citizens arrest .
As little as we may think of it . When these scumbags destroy the Islands , they are destroying your future too .
Everyone today has a cell phone and text , three guys can be around the same area and watching for unusual behaviors of a thief and close in on the scumbag by the time he pick up the goods and take him down and hold him face down in the sand and call the police . If alot of this happens in different parts of the Island, then the criminal would change their minds and get a real job .
Not a smart idea we don’t need vigilantes running around “arresting” people this is the gateway to a flood of wrongful arrests and illegal deprivation imprisonment, also who regulates such a system. As bad as we have it now this would make it far worse. We need societal and educational reform and economic stability and growth. Partly on the people and partially on the people’s elected officials and the civil service.
One big reason is Social services giving these strong men/women money, so they don’t work, so they are never tired, and have plenty time on their hands to commit crime. Social Services should be for only old people that worked all their life and is too old to work anymore.
Police are needed in that area like the beaches of cuba!
Public Beach has slowly turned into a very unsavory place. Loud music from every cabana competing for the Look at me, Im a douche award.
Garbage left about, weed being smoked in vein of all.
This all stems from the un licensed chair and water sports rentals.
Allow one law to be broken and all others will follow.
Tourists come here instead of Jamaica because we have “low crime”.
Ever since we started bringing Jamaica here , they came with their crime and drug habits.
The hassling vendors have to be stopped.
Has nothing to do with Jamaicans. These guys are locals. Just go sit there and watch for an hour or so. It’s not hard to pick out who the unsavory people are.
Bullshit, it has much to do with (some) Jamaicans although not exclusively. A number of locals are also involved. Some of the illegal vendors that the government is refusing to enforce our laws against are clearly Jamaicans rather than local, although they may be married to locals.
Jamaica police does not arrest Jamaicans, period. I see a lot of them riding their bicycles in the night without a light, police past them and never stop, but they arrest Caymanians without a light, they never arrest their own people. Thats why it is more Caymanians in Northward.
Your country doesn’t have impoverished people?
If you see such behavior going on , why don’t you take pictures of it happening and take them to DoT. I thought that all of those vendors
had to complete a course in being “CAYMANKIND ” That kind of behavior is outrageous and not Caymankind .
They also need trade and business licenses, local companies control law licenses, insurances, health insurance, pensions, a premises from which to operate, …
thanks to the ‘do nothing’ ppm and their inability to enforce basic laws….public beach has become a seedy little hell hole
Oh get off the ppm, udp, bandwagon.
It’s the world.
4:14 am, shame on you all, for you voted PPM
police should just set up a bait trap…with gps tracker on a phone. problem solved.
Zero foresight from the pr folks and their partners, the ci gov.
I wrote a comment couple weeks ago stating police need to do beach patrol. Stealing bags , dirt bikes riding up and down on the beach disrupting beachgoers. are just the beginning of Beach Crimes . Remember tourism is one our main industry. We need protection for our tourists anyway as usual when something bad happens that’s the time advisories and warnings come into effect. I will reiterate again if we dont tackle crime Cayman is in danger of being placed on the State Advisory List as few of our Caribbean neighbours. Remember we lost the prestige of being the jewel of the Caribbean. Get the police back on the beat instead of driving around in cars, get the youths into a vocational instituition and try again to recruit a local Commissioner of Police (one was a complete failure) I will give three names Charles Clifford , Philiip Ebanks Dennis Brady all ex -senior officers. Stop recruiting nannies domestics windowcleners common labourers and the list goes on that ‘s why the moral of the Police Force is so low. Make it be a professional job. Our national security is failing as cirime is still on the increase so CIG dont get laidback if though you have injected money into the RCIP, just look at the end results. Remember Social Media is international .
Wait…just north of public beach is the Kimpton Hotel?!?
Its got to be a work permit holder
Police. Stop blaming victims!
So could the police not visit this beach to observe the criminals that hang out there looking for opportunities?
You’d think by now they would start regularly patrolling the beaches where alleged criminality is happening.
Instead it’s the constant culpability shift on the victims from the police force. It’s absurb…
Undercover too maybe? Just throwing out some idea RCIPS…
8:19 pm, agree, but they don’t understand what undercover cop means, a while back they sent two plain clothes police to Brac to check the break ins etc, and the high up cop, intruded them to the people in the meeting.
Someone go there and watch for predators.
Lol …yeah, hurry bobo…
Do they ever do patrols? Anywhere? I rarely even see a car on the road.
6:21 Odds are these thefts are being done by children who are too young to be charged with any criminal offences – that’s what happens in other resorts where this is a problem. It’s a simple logic – people might notice adults hanging around but kids playing on a beach won’t generate any suspicions.
Or maybe it’s the lurching adult crackhead?
Under the direction of?
Stop blame youths for your misguidance. This was done by Jamaicans or old crackheads…lots of them here using your foreigner drugs too.