Armed masked men invade Prospect home
(CNS): Two masked men armed with a knife and a crow bar entered a home on Prospect Point Road, George Town, at around 9:30pm last night and demanded cash. In an RCIPS release, police said that the men demanded money. No one was hurt but the robbers made off with an undisclosed quantity of cash and personal items. The suspects are both described as being about 5’10”-5’11” in height and were wearing full masks and gloves.
Police who responded to the scene of the aggravated burglary made checks in the area but did not locate anyone matching the descriptions given.
This incident is being investigated by officers from George Town CID and police are appealing for anyone who may have any relevant information to call the George Town Police Station at 949-4222. Anonymous tips can be provided to the RCIPS Confidential Tip Line at 949-7777, the Miami-based call centre Crime Stoppers at 800-8477(TIPS), or online here.
Lawd, Me left a Jam to run from d criminal dem. Now dis place a ga mashup too.
Alla you people talkin bout crime these days blah blah blah. Boooy I landed here 27 years ago and there was plenty crime back then!! Was broken into 3 times within 6 months and that was when I lived on SMB!!
They just kept it quiet better back then than they can now.
I thought we had cameras there is one way in and out???? So y wouldn’t the cameras be checked
Anarchy. Get the popcorn!
Wow Cannot believe they want $40,000 dollar police dogs now because if you think trained police dogs are cheap. I guess add in Drone or two for a complete package add in operators and container another 10 million dollars. `No worries Alden da Stooge McLaughlin and his unity cabal will approve and sign anything the FCO tells them to sign. We have literally gone to dogs now on this island.
Exactly Colonial Carte. Thank you.
Our small seven mile beach complex hadn’t had a break-in for three decades, yet experienced two separate invasions in just a week over the holidays – and they were undeterred by complex security.
Because they know that security guards don’t carry guns, and they do!
They know they have the advantage; they are only getting smarter out there.
11:15 I am sorry to say that it is far worse than this in the SMB Corridor as condo owners don’t want to talk about all the break ins and real estate people are quiet too. The reason is simple, they don’t want the value of their real estate to drop. Owners of condos and real estate people need to start speaking out before it is too late.
I will say it like I told a News Media a few day ago . If you don’t condem the criminal behavior and you protect the criminal , then I have to believe that you are just like them.
Don’t be scared of a bully or a criminal because the next one see it and your problems grows from there .
Hondurans off the fishing boats or Jamaicans landing illegally? CLOSE YOUR BOARDERS and HIGHER SECURITY SCREENING AT IMMIGRATION! Finger printing?????
Is this the wake boarders, the surf boarders, the paddle boarders, or some other kind? The screening at Immigration is already fairly high, if we make it higher I’m not sure how we would see over it.
Trine to build a wall…. Jamaica and Honduras will pay for it!!!
I always like details so I can either worry, make some security changes, or discount it as best I can. Was this a targeted attack for a large sum of money, because I rarely carry more than $50 and can’t think that someone would go to all that trouble for it. Did they force the door to get in (with the crowbar) or was the door unlocked, or opened? Security cameras? On foot, bike or car? What personal items, just in case they are trying to pawn them, or sell them?
Good points. I always wonder why they dont release more of these practical details.
They don’t release information they don’t bother to gather themselves!
We keep selling Cayman to the international arena like we have so much to offer. Crime is rising every single day here…..more criminals are being groomed by their predecessors.
We have serious socio-economical issues here and the people in power are only ignoring them!
With only 10 Traffic Unit officers out of 407 payrolled employees, and a RCIPS community response time measured in half hour increments, the Commissioner continues their useless two-pronged absentee enforcement strategy, of: empty town-halls and “disappointed” social media posts to their 9 followers. While doing so, offering no accountability for their >$30mln per year budget allocation. News has spread that Cayman is essentially an unprotected target.
And still, the authorities don’t believe that it is necessary to hold the parents responsible for their children’s actions/inactions from day one………or has anyone else ever heard about consequences for child and parent when kids destroyed school property and behaved unruly?
Also hold the politicians, one in particular, accountable for allowing the mass importation of scum who sow their seeds of destruction .
You cannot hold one politician responsible for the status grants. You need to open your damn eyes and see that it was a COLLECTIVE effort of all the politicians at the time, but only one was brave enough to put his face to it!
And seeds of destruction? If Cayman youth didn’t DESIRE destructive cultural ways they would not be where there are today. Parents let their children run wild in society and do not teach them any respect for people or their belongings.
Too much children breeding! Too much punks who will never be fit to be fathers, planting their undesirable seeds into these stupid little young girls who are also not fit to be mothers! You wonder why we have such a mess?
It’s not just Cayman, look at the world. People have lost their damn senses!
Nobody cares about values, morals or scruples; people want money, sex and power!
And they will stop at nothing to get what they want!
Yes those believing that the great white hope have come here to save us .I feel truly sorry for you Guard dogs armed security and walled compounds.This is the future Cayman if we don’t stop this immigration work permit farce and law enforcement employment scheme we keep funding. Time to hold the RCIPS accountable for crime and stop importing more problems situations from overseas. 60,000 people 5 police stations 300 police from overseas do the math Cayman. Time to start looking at other alternatives to resolve this crime problem.
You are 100% correct
A slippery slope to Jamaica!!!!!
Why don’t we band together and help the authorities fight crime then? Or is that too much to ask? Whenever there are reports of heinous crimes many get up in arms and rant until there’s a lull in the news cycle. Yet when faced with the opportunity to truly make a difference cower and point fingers. Oh, “It’s the fault of the Police and similar authirities, politicians and parenting”… what difference does it make if were not willing to work towards combating the problem? Join one of the uniformed divisions of our law enforcement, start or get involved in a neighborhood watch or don’t be too much of a coward to identify criminals! We complain to each other all the time, if we could only complain together instead! Maybe, maybe together we just may effect some change.
…Because we are paying >$30mln a year for a competent approach from career crime-fighters. Apparently the sum of their expertise leads them to conclude we need two Caymanian foot-patrollers tethered to vulnerable and expensive imported drug dogs. That’ll surely fix this, just you wait.
Oh Please Silas give it a rest with your fictional cum bye ya moment these over paid foreign interlopers are here to fleece our islands little economy. Whilst they help themselves and there fellow countrymen in a bias melee of crime here. It simply is not in there or there respective countries best interest to reduce or solve crime here and the truth is they dont really care. You are right about one thing complaining to these uniform carriers do not make sense. Stop this foolishness looking to others to resolve our problems. NO more foreign police Alden.
“cum bye ya moment” LMAO
Silas I agree that makes too much sense . Look at the thumb down button and you will see why the problem is going to get bigger , because people don’t understand the comment or the problem.
What really irks me is when you speak of crime in Cayman of today people start telling you of the Cayman they grew up in with no crime and blah blah blah.
WAKE UP the train has left the station, the tooth paste is out of the tube and that Cayman is gone forever. Deal with the Cayman of today.
To imagine 2 thugs breaking into your home and threatening you OMG.
And people are scared.
Unnah want Jamaica styleee unnah got it now deal wid it No worries we need another 75 Foreign police no problem Alden going to approve that too. Poor Cayman playing da Colonial game More money more problems more police unnah think it bad now wait till cousin Alden and his Unity gang add another 40,000 PR and work permits. Future looking good Cayman for those hired to come here to fix our crime problem.
I think that the Government can’t see or don’t want to know what is happening to the Islands. Their foresight for doing whatever is essential to be done is very minimal .
One example of look at the expansion of the Airport . The Government knew that Airport is being made bigger, but they didn’t see that everything involved with Airport had to get bigger too . This is what caused the big mess on Saturday with the long line wait for the Passengers, no additional Custom Officers and Immigration Officers and baggage handlers. I think that the Officials knew about all the flights scheduled that arrived last Saturday from months ago , but they didn’t make no preparations to accommodate them or the Passengers.
But the crime issues , the Government didn’t see or plan for the explosion of crime when they were growing the population . Now it’s going to be a bigger problem to handle and get it back in control.
I doubt they knew. They should have known! But that requires grey matter.
It’s a given now that the Governor, police and MLA’s will not likely do much to ensure our safety.
My thoughts are now (as much as I don’t really like admitting it) I need to find a way to attain, legally, a firearm to protect my family, myself and my property.
Where is the powers that be? You ask in s..,,t h..,e Islands trying to further seal our demise… frightening and disgusting … and we thought we had prople with common sense, honesty and integrity. For God sake please don’t make these demons brain wash you.
I’d be grateful for a translation of the above comment.
LOL
We have been left defenseless by an uncaring and unaffected political class.
they are busy with employing you.
This island is getting from bad to worse. I’m afraid it’s on the slippery slope now and at the point of no return. It’s not safe for a vacation let alone to reside in anymore. Such a waste of a paradise island. ?It’s not all down to unsavoury immigrants. There’s a lot of homegrown criminals carrying out this type of crime. It’s a really difficult situation for RCIPS their hands are tied. Only so much one can do, as if convicted the penalties don’t fit the crime or seem a deterrent for these people. The courts need to take away these criminals liberty for a very long time. They are laughing at this Judicial system, it’s a joke!!
This Government really needs to sort out this major problem. The Child Protection team need to up their game to sort out the massive child abuse. Social Services need to step in and do their part in directing these children on the right path before they become delinquents. These children go off the rails before becoming the criminals they end up to be. It needs to be nipped in the bud in the early years. There will always be crime wherever you live but it’s getting off the scale now on this island.
There should be programmes in place for school leavers. Apprenticeships with Construction firms. In fact, why isn’t there a Construction College like in the U.K.?
May God help you Cayman
Because those who operate the college here….don’t want to hurt their fellow countrymen.
Sorry cant concentrate on your comment, I am taking a class at our harvard university and listening to the wonderful bass thumping coming from the parking lot and gangsta/pop songs playing at our olympics for children. What a wonderful event for children and a wonderful way to deter adults from struggling to concentrate upon their studying. What foriegn culture seems to be the infludence here…hmmmmm.cant put my finger on it….and all I thinks an sees is green and yellow flashes…are those the new Cayman Natioanl Colors.
RCIPS their hands are tied with arresting a pregnant woman.
The deafening silence on our crime is disgusting!! We need to deal with this! I’ve never seen such a dysfunctional set in my life. Why are we (the powers that be) sitting back and allowing this CANCER to ruin us?!
I truly don’t believe the Government really cares. As long as they have a surplus from work permits in their budget, their hefty salaries, benefits and pensions are paid. Why would they have to pass legislations to protect the innocent? That would mean work! Remember it’s not their fault, it’s the Governor’s responsibility for crime to be placed under control. That the goverment’s story and they sticking to it.
Byrne thinks the answer is adding two foot-based Caymanian beat officers tethered to drug dogs (with more training than their handlers). There are no plans afoot to reduce police response times from half hour (or longer) intervals, to what they should be: 3 minutes or less. There should be visible officers at every mile marker writing tickets while waiting for dispatch to crimes in progress. That’s how we fix this.
Alden’s “unity government” Cayman.
Over half dozen robberies, almost the same for the shootings this year alone, but our government assures us that everything is peachy as crime gets worst. The only thing progressively improving under the Premier Alden Mclaughlin’s unity government is criminal activity. The peoples well being is not the governments responsibility. Crime is what pays on this little island, and the government knows this all the while capitilizing on it.
So I’ll be on the lookout then for two men of about 5’10-11″ wearing full masks and gloves only – should be easy.
Did they have shirts, trousers, socks and shoes? Give us a clue.
Looking forward to the day the airplane door bangs me on the way out.
hurry !!!
Don’t hesitate. Go today!
enjoy your time in Jamaica, or perhaps some vagrant US inner city since they are so much safer than Cayman. Loser.
There are a lot of towns & even some cities in the U.S. that have a low crime rate.
Not tax free and no pr scam connections too so that wont happen
That’s not the point. I’m sure the Police and Government in other places who have had crime sprees mirroring ours have done (or tried) or at least said something to shut this shit down by now. We need to have a zero tolerance for this nonsense. Enough is enough. They have been rampant for far too long.
I’ll tell you this, I feel a lot safer in certain places in Jamaica because the Police is constantly on the beat, they make their presence known, you na frighten them. They frighten you!!! They will make an example out of you. Not the other way around. That’s where Cayman fckd up (and keep on fckn up)!
He doesnt have to goto Jamiaca, where do you think all the criminality came from when they where giving out cayman passports.
To where, nowhere is safe.