Body of smuggler suspect washes ashore
(CNS): A body that washed up on the shore of East End Thursday morning is likely to be the missing man who was aboard a suspected ganja canoe which ran aground on the reef on Tuesday. When police arrested two men, both Jamaican nationals, aged 68 and 56, who had managed to make it to shore from the stranded boat, they told officers that a third man had been with them and they thought he had made it to land as well. But police were unable to locate him.
At around 9am today the unresponsive man washed up along the coastline by Austin Conolly Drive. Emergency services attended and he was pronounced dead at the scene.
Superintendent Peter Lansdown said, “I am working on the basis that the deceased man may be the third man who had been on the vessel that was recovered in East End on Tuesday, but investigations continue.”
The other two men who were on the vessel are currently in custody and have already been charged with being concerned in the importation of ganja and illegal landing. They appeared in Court today.
They had been arrested after the police from the Eastern Districts, the RCIPS helicopter and the coastguard responded to reports of a vessel on the reef off East End and packages floating in the water. Several packages of ganja were recovered from the sea and the canoe, which were later found to weigh around 194lbs. The boat was also seized by the police.
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R.I.P. Kaniel
Cayman has a solution for all of this, but too many hidden agendas and greedy entrepreneurs in Govt. coastal solutions ltd and conflict of interest continues unabated?
Looks like good fishing boat and engine. Sell it to me. Got go get some turbits and parrot fish. I hungry fisherman
Me 11 @ 3:41 pm. Hungry fisherman, are you trolling? Pun intended. Sounds like it. I would say “turbits (sic) and squabs”. But you would know it’s actually “turbots”, right?
Better it be like Jamaica instead of being like America.
These days America is fighting it out with guns and a gun culture with Jamaica.
You’re on drugs.
1:07, Perhaps you should check out San Francisco these days. Gives Kingston a run for its money.
8:00 pm you are the biggest Of Idiot of the century. You should be given a shit medal to hang on your wall. Don’t you even know we gets everything from U S A.
Cayman is situated right in the center of the Western Caribbean narcotics trafficking, weapons/human smuggling and embargo-skirting thoroughfare. It doesn’t matter if our local economy is amenable to legalization of ganja. All that might do is legalize the laundering of all the illicit shipments through our waters, just like what is happening now in Canada and elsewhere. The criminal networks don’t go away with legalization, they flourish, expand, and undercut government efforts to tax and regulate. Regardless of legalization discussions, Cayman needs to properly surveil our waters or ask for help in doing so. What does it look like, if our enforcement departments are intervening, seizing, or getting lucky on just 200lbs of weed a month, when the DEA estimates >$1Bln in illicit goods ply our waters each month?
You can’t beat organized crime wether it be drugs weapons or people history will tell you that go back as far as you can and you will see ..
Even the UK and Europe can’t stop the people smugglers coming across the channel which is organized crime it’s way bigger than we know
Legalizing would allow local production and therefore kill off the demand for the brown crap they smuggle over. Personally, I grow my own so I never buy. I’d just continue to do what I’ve been doing lol. Keeping it illegal does nothing to stop consumption.
Locally produced weed is magnitudes better quality. The same can be said for locally grown mangos versus imported.
I hope you don’t drive. Unlike with alcoholl, it’s not known how long the effects of cannabis last (though it can be life long once your mental health is trashed).
Cayman is becoming Jamaica.
4.03pm We already are since 60% of out population is from there and growing daily. Even worse 60% of those are illiterate or religious fanatics and have no brought-upsey.
Bit like Caymanians then.
I’d say more than 60% of those here more like 80%
8:09 ,,am, and should send back 50,% of them
Rather it becomes like Jamaica instead of being like America, which is the path it looks like it’s going down.
It belonged to Jamaica and tbis wouldn’t be happening if there wasn’t the demand. Show the names of those that are allowing this for decades.. Are they Jamaican?
Cayman was never part of the nation of Jamaica.
Both (and tci) were administered as one British colony together from Kingston.
Your point?
Cayman never belonged to Jamaica. Stop inventing crap. We were administered by the British in Jamaica when Jamaica was itself a crown colony.
Forgive 3:39, he was never good at history while at school.
Becoming? How so?
Decriminalize growing ganja (3-4 plants at a time for personal use) and watch the overnight canoes with coke, guns, covid, illegal Yardies (& soon Haitians) get fewer!
Legalise weed and less dead bodies.
But more dead heads
They legalized it in Canada and there were no additional dead heads.
A simple fact.
Just extra dead bodies on the roads. Is there not enough carnage on the island?
Them damn guns and drugs runners are ruining Cayman
Dont forget the foreign minded local haters
It’s all in your head petal.
Don’t forget the small-minded expat haters….
Why even come where your hated then? Logicless comment as usual from your lot.
It’s not published. All we hear about is Caymankind.
Uk nationals here on island do far worse, legally. So therefore relax my friend.
Idiot
Hand in your British passport then
9:31 am, I DONT HAVE A UK PASSPORT AND WIL NEVER GET ONE, I BEEN THERE AND NEVER SAW ANYTHING I WANT TO GO BACK FOR, PERIOD.
Good.
And vaccines and help during hurricanes and..
We are grateful for the vaccines. As for help in and after hurricanes, not so much. The UK and Royal Navy’s response to Ivan was an embarrassment. They literally refused to help with security and offered water purification tablets and blankets. Neither were of any assistance.
Caymanians and their politicians ruined Cayman.
Tragic.
Since these persons or others doing what they have done have likely caused the re-introduction of Covid to Cayman, are they being charged with breaching any quarantine requirements?
I would suspect that breaking quarantine regulations is the least of their problems right now.
Not if anyone was thinking. That should be the most serious offence. It has already cost 7 lives (so far, not counting the decease from this incident) and robbed the economy of tens of millions of dollars.
Well you wouldn’t count the deceased from this incident since his death had absolutely nothing to do with Covid.