Archive for February, 2018
Missing 11-year-old girl found safe and well
(CNS) UPDATED: The RCIPS have confimed that the whereabouts of the 11-year-old girl reported missing Friday are now known, and that she is in good health. Azaria Jackson, from East End, had been missing from home since Friday, 9 February, when she left the schools’ sports day at the Annex Playfield in George Town, but […]
West Bay woman in custody after stabbing
(CNS) UPDATED: A 39-year-old woman from West Bay who was arrested on suspicion of assault GBH after she allegedly stabbed another woman from the same district during an altercation in the Birch Tree Hill Road area of West Bay early Friday has been charged. Police and emergency services were called to the scene at around 1:40am […]
Tourism sector breaking more records
(CNS): The Cayman Islands’ tourism sector continues to boom as official overnight visitor figures for January 2018 break more records. Having closed 2017 with the highest visitor numbers in history, the growth continued unabated, as 2018 began with January recording a near 24% increase in stay-over tourists and a 20% hike in cruise passengers. A […]
Woman killed in East End smash
(CNS) UPDATED: Police have now confirmed that the woman killed in a single-vehicle road crash in East End at around 2:00 Thursday morning was Altameka Price (28), who lived in the district. The first person killed on Cayman’s roads this year, she was believed to be a passenger in a Subaru that hit a tree […]
Chief justice gives Estella’s killers longest life tariff
(CNS): Kirkland Henry (37) and Larry Ricketts (33) will serve minimum life sentences of 40 years for the murder of Estella Scott-Roberts after Chief Justice Anthony Smellie handed down his ruling Thursday, following the recent conditional release hearings for the two killers. These are the longest tariffs given to any killers currently serving life in […]
Abuser jailed for 4¾ years for child sex abuse
(CNS): Devon Stewart (57), who was convicted last September for gross indecency on a 7-year-old child, received a prison sentence of four years and nine months Thursday from an acting Grand Court judge, who noted that social workers believed the child had been severely traumatized. In a disturbing case, Stewart had been in a position […]
RCIPS calls for witnesses to Spotts Beach drowning
(CNS): Police officers investigating the death of a visitor on Monday at Spotts Beach are calling for witnesses to come forward. Police said they are interested in speaking with anyone who saw him enter the sea or swimming in the area before his body was pulled from the water. Anyone with any information is asked […]
Three car fires trigger two police probes
(CNS): Emergency services responded to three separate car fires on Wednesday between the early hours of the morning and just after lunch across three different districts. Police said it does not appear that the vehicle blazes were linked. The fire, in which a nearby building was also slightly damaged, happened in a parking lot on […]
Expressing condolences to strangers
Is it appropriate to offer condolences to people who are not your friends, family or even acquaintances? Online condolences to complete strangers? Kim Cattrall’s response to Sarah Jessica Parker has made me think about etiquette for expressing condolences.
RCIPS rebuilding after local job freeze
(CNS): The deputy police commissioner has said that the RCIPS is now rebuilding its capacity after the freeze on local recruitment was lifted four years ago. Anthony Ennis said that 39 Caymanian officers have joined the service since it restarted local job drives and most of them are still there. He said the freeze had […]
Killer to serve 34 years for ‘gangland execution’
(CNS): Leonard Antonio Ebanks (47) was handed a life tariff of 34 years Tuesday, when Justice Charles Quin delivered his decision on how long he should serve for gunning down 20-year-old Tyrone Burrell in 2010. Burrell was shot in the back of the head at point-blank range in a yard on Birch Tree Hill, West […]
