Police plan crackdown on Superbowl crowds
(CNS): The RCIPS has issued a notice that there will be an increased visible police presence over the weekend in order to enforce COVID-19 public gathering regulations in relation to Superbowl events on Sunday. Police reminded members of the public and owners of establishments that will be televising the game that regulations remain in force that limit the number of people who can gather in place both inside and outside.
The coronavirus-related rules still restrict the number of people who can gather at an indoor venue to 100 and outdoors to 250, excluding members of staff. Owners of venues found exceeding these limits are liable on prosecution to a fine of $10,000 or imprisonment for two years.
The public can expect to see increased police presence over the weekend and the RCIPS said people should plan ahead before attending any events.
“If you are going to drink, don’t drive. Make a plan for getting home safely. The RCIPS wishes everyone a safe and enjoyable weekend,” an RCIPS spokesperson said.
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Watched it for the first time – what a pathetic excuse of a “sport”. The idiots on the field, mostly morbidly obese middle age gents spent more time dancing around after they either gain or lost 3 metres than any activity. None of the players have any proper tackling technique, no wonder they’re always concussed running in and tackling someone with your head – morons. Oh yes I forgot they were Americans.
Don’t get me started on the half time circus show either. Absolute dross – an hours game, lasting 3.5hrs what a waste of time and people pay to watch this sh!t?
That’s a lot of words to say “I am too thick to understand a game”!
Fat blokes trying to block other fat blokes, while some idiot quarterback who has his plays written on his forearm because he’s too useless to memorize them or apply any skill looking to find a young skip-rat weighing no more than 160lbs prancing around trying to catch a ball. Gloves as well, jeez.
All this while wearing more protection than an F1 or Moto GP driver. Remember Americans invented it, so it won’t be that difficult to understand.
Grow up – played more competitive sport at under 9s rugby.
So you’re no only bashing bigger people but also Americans? Wow, you are a piece of work buddy. I am pretty sure no one forced to you watch the game. Stop the racial hate. I don’t like watching Cricket (I would rather watch paint dry) or Rugby (men in shorts way too short and tight for them… LOL), but I don’t go around bashing you all for it.
Grow up!!
I watch a lot of rugby and there are a good number of fat blokes trying to cuddle other fat blokes on every team.
It is okay though, I used to think similarly to you before I understood it. Maybe find someone to explain what is happening.
Just watched some Six Nations. They may be slim but they are slow. White man’s disease.
It appears to me that the IQ level to qualify for the Cayman Police Farce is not much above single digits.
If you think you can put a uniform on a moron and have him do your bullying, you are out of your mind.
The spineless CoP and the equally spineless Governor should go out with the police and try to explain these decisions to thousands of regular folk who are just going to their favourite watering hole to watch a game of football.
The COVID control narrative has failed.
Stop sending these morons to disrupt decent people’s lives or you will find yourselves on the next flight back to wherever the hell you washed up from.
#notwelcome #gohome
You realise neither the CoP nor Governor make the laws right?
If the police give tickets to the bar owners, they will feel it after. They will lose even more respect that they don’t have already. It’s not fair for incompetent people to “enforcing” “laws” on people who to the public are doing nothing wrong. The only reason they are targeting them is because they know they can and will pay. Its just extortion. Sad state of affairs.
When is the JA church in Cayman Brac going to be proscecuted for their Covid super spreader event? 10,000.00 should suffice.
Sabrina, zero arrests for not reporting positive LFT test, RCIP zero arrests for Covid restrictions……need I say more 🤪🤪
Those who block KFC will get trampled to death or ran over and I can assure you da PoPo won’t help you either ! Super Bowl and the world champions won’t mean diddly Squat after 9pm so those who want put them self a risk of getting sick from a deadly virus should at least be left in peace to do so. Stupidity is not against the law when I last checked.
Omicron is not deadly if you are boosted.
Thank you, doctor. As a highly qualified medical professional, what are your thoughts on the long term health effects of post Covid infection?
“Heart-disease risk soars after COVID — even with a mild case
Massive study shows a long-term, substantial rise in risk of cardiovascular disease, including heart attack and stroke, after a SARS-CoV-2 infection.”
More:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00403-0
The streets be empty still during during the game and as long as i been in Cayman 53 years. I swear i never seen or heard anybody racing around after Super Bowl games.
Police intend to prosecute bar owners for failure to maintain Covid capacity restrictions but persist in turning a blind eye towards retailers on Cayman Brac and Little Cayman that continue to have customers at the check stands line up in narrow isles making it impossible for patrons to shop those aisles without almost rubbing up against people in line. If such unfair application of the laws takes place, we then shall KNOW there is corrupt selective prosecution occurring in regard to Covid regulations. Why pick on just bar owners? I was under the impression that the laws applied equally to all. Apparently that was a silly assumption. However, unlike the morons involved with enforcing Covid regulations, the Covid virus does not differentiate between closely packed bar patrons and closely packed store patrons.
Unnecessary, Unreasonable as Unenforceable!
As of SL 89 Dec 17th, 2021
TICKET OFFENCES AND FINES
1. Failure of the owner or operator of a relevant public place to restrict the number of persons so that customers or congregants are able to social distance. 4(5) $1000
2. An owner or operator of a restaurant or bar failing to maintain distance of at least six feet between tables while offering services. 5(5) $1000
3. An owner or operator of a restaurant or bar failing to ensure that servers and staff wear masks or cloth face coverings while serving customers. 5(5) $500
4. A person not maintaining at least six feet from every other person in a restaurant or bar when not seated at a table or counter 5(6) $250
Oh stop it. This is getting tiresome now.
Or, if you prefer, you can believe their fable that it’s still $10,000 and two years in jail. This from the same enforcement arm that seizes $1.4mln in cocaine from a home without the wherewithal to make a single arrest.
Those aren’t laws and were never signed off by HM The Queen.
These rules surely are no longer enforceable? Covid is over for the triple jabbed. The unboosted only have themselves to blame if they die of covid
Thank you for ending the pandemic. You deserve knighthood!
How embarrassing that the RCIPS issued a threatening press release before checking the actual ticket guidance in regulations (and we’re already at SL5 for 2022). That they have no idea what the laws are that they are tasked to enforce, does nothing to improve the public’s perception of their competence level. Perhaps even more embarrassing that they thought it was still $10,000 and 2 yrs in jail (circa August 2021), with >10% active community spread and prevailing non-compliance, and STILL failed to demonstrate a will to write any health and safety tickets in last 6 months outside of the Super bowl. It might even be funny if it weren’t so sad.
@2:24 better idea. When the cops walk in every one keep shuffling around and they will never be able to count how many are present. 😁
Most overrated sporting event on the planet. Still RCIPS lol
Meanwhile I’m walking around in the gym with no mask on and chatting with my unmasked buddies. Mind, I’ve been pro-vax and pro-mask since the beginning.. however,
It’s like the only place on this island that I can feel like I’m living a normal, sane life.
I TIYAD NOW
Because triple jabbed Super Bowl watching law abiding expats are clearly the bigger threat than mass shootings at vics, stabbing at lillies and 1.4m George Town drug busts. Get a grip.
Don’t forget all the idiot drivers speeding all over the place. Guess it is easier to harass the poor business people who are trying to survive. Thank you RCIPS for your diligence!
And the trashy looking dump trucks hauling the metal around at high speeds!
Mass shootings where the perps are caught clearly on camera and yet they can’t convict anyone!
Since on the theme of people’s physical well being why doesn’t the RCIP arrest obese chunkers considering heart disease kills more than the mild cold a.k.a omicron. Maybe arrest Colonel Sanders for the mass spreading of big asses in the community. Fat camp perhaps
Great idea. Roadblock at the KFC drive through q and ticket everyone it’s a BMI over 40
Fascist idiot
Stop voting these fools into power.
Sadly, they are the only fools that we have.
Winning the hearts and minds, British killjoys direct junior Caribbean foot soldiers to write first community COVID tickets if pandemic, a month after peak community transmission, and specifically during a major US sports event. Tourists please give us a great review…
Ummm, no Brits in sight.
An Irishman directing Jamaicans on 7.5 hour shifts, unlimited benefits for unlimited dependents, and 4 days on, four days off, with 22 days vacation on top. What could possibly go wrong?
When we look back and wonder how the jewel of the Caribbean became lawless and bankrupt, THIS will be one of the key elements where it all went so terribly wrong.
The governor’s office is in charge of the police.
Say no more.
Dude. No one is in charge. That is a big part of the problem.
The port night shift workers have the best benefits, vacations, working hours and pay.
Unsupervised making it best job on a island, far easier than police work.
So the cops walk in. “Everybody stand still while we walk around and count everyone”.
So if there is a crowd of 120 indoors, do the police charge all 120?
Isnt 120 in a large spaced out venue safer than 50 in a cramped one?
What difference does it make if 250 or 1,000 are sitting outside in the open air?
If the police enter to count and take the number over 100, can they then fine the establishment? Sounds like a potential scam to me!
If 2 police officers enter and it brings the head count to 102,do they fine themselves?
Thank you!
That was a perfectly timed laugh! 😀
This announcement is for all of those people shouting that the RCIPS aren’t doing their job and policing all of the rules.
For those that think it is silly, don’t blame the police for just doing their jobs. (Nor for telling you they will in the hopes they don’t have to. That’s just smart.) Call your MP to complain about the rules the police have to enforce.
Maybe they should count the fresh lobsters in the fridges while they’re there. Do a little something to stop poaching.
It’s more the “why now”, and it is specifically targeting a U.S. sporting event, months after these ticketable offenses were published, and probably a week or two shy of when these regulations will be scrapped like everywhere else.
Sporting event? I thought it was a marketing event.
Their job is to protect and serve us.
Not patrol and command us.
Martyn Roper is responsible for the police.
Is that the same guy who is pissed off because the beans got split about the PPM setting up all these overseas offices after they were voted out? Say no more.
The clown show measures are still in full force.
ZZzzzzzzzzzzzz Meanwhile in the rest of the world, mask mandates are falling away….
Working great in New Zealand! New Zealand reports a record 810 new coronavirus cases, nearly doubling yesterday’s record.
Heres an idea…. ENFORCE TRAFFIC LAWS INSTEAD. Like, all the time.
…And littering laws!
Just laws. I know longer care which. Just enforce something, but all day every day!!!!
Murder and Rape laws !
Who cares. At least there might be some exitement in another wise boring game.
So, RCIPS are you going to fine and prosecute every plane now landing with over 100 passengers?
This is ridiculous. 80,000+ fans attending the super bowl – no masks required. Eight states have dropped or will be dropping mask mandates. PACT, the world has moved on.
Hope they check the churches on Sunday too
Just Brilliant . The daily passenger manifest numbers on aircraft arriving over 150 people plus crew per-plane. “ A confined indoors area”. C.O.P Byrne..get your stormtroopers down to ORIA on Sunday morning and arrest dem all…
Just do a pop- in and a head count on all the Church congregations on the way. Can utilize the new curb drop off regime after the security check on all the Explorers.
@Philip – good question and let’s face it there is no social distancing on the plane, oh well actually there probably is because they are not full but I can assure you there was no social distancing when folks boarded the plane in their departure city. I speak from experience, not experience boarding a plan for Cayman because I’m not returning while the 2/5/7 testing is in place, but traveling elsewhere, even on a less than full flight the push to get onboard is no different than it was pre-Covid.
This is hilarious , how many fans will be actually attending the game ? I guess they will all perish….Laughable. Turn the page already.
100,240 (30K more than the entire population of the Cayman Islands) is the potential capacity. So many will surely die…
Only from the vaccine
Are you tired of your ignorant bs yet?
from the folks who closed the beaches early in covid cos they were too lazy to their jobs…..zzzzzzzzzzzzz
Dear RCIPS
If you are out enforcing on Super Bowl Sunday, I’d start with the churches in the morning. Except you won’t, because your enforcement is biased, irrational and has no scientific basis. So in that case please stay in bed.
Kind regards
Events that have:
Minds altered
Cheerleaders
People convinced their belief is correct
I cannot see the difference apart from the frequency of one per year, to one every Sunday.
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C.O.P Byrne just doing his job . Must be wondering why all the RCIPS measures back in 2020 did absolutely bugger all in stopping the spread of Covid . A better idea in 2022 is threaten people for watching football. How are the Sunday church congregation numbers working out?
The measures in 2020 were way more strict and actually I don’t recall any outbreaks in 2020. I think this is ridiculous as well, but your comparison is inaccurate and undermines the point you are trying to make.
Don’t act like over 100 people attend any church anymore. But yes, I agree.
Churches are exempt from the crowd size limits so…
Maybe take this one up with the lawmakers
Because Covid doesn’t spread in churches? How’d that work out in the Brac?
“Act of God “ should cover that , or failing that “will of Allah” .
Most bars are churches to those who attend so….
Voters are not counted for the purposes of indoor limits
These Covid BS restrictions are beyond stupid! When are we going to move on from the madness?
only yourselves to blame… blind compliance and now you’re all whinging.
What did you think was going to happen?
It should be made a crime just to watch that dumb game, never mind with how many others.
Rude comment. If you can’t respect others appreciating a sport they love then go away. What is your favorite sport? Mine are tennis, rugby and football (soccer) but I appreciate the tactical nous and skill of NFL
RCIP: Pension thefts? Gasboy? Trainergate? Driving standards? CCTV? Gross wastes of public funds? High level corruption?
We think YOU are corrupt or inept or both.
Fix that shit before threatening people for watching a sporting event! You are losing the last vestiges of respect.
Lost long ago! The next election can’t come quick enough!
Election – small bunch of fringe unemployed residents voting their relatives into office for kickbacks and corruption.
Police the foolish drivers that drive in the night with out lights, and never dim their lights, and only has one head or tail light.
I predict an announcement that Feb 14 all capacity restrictions are lifted.
Afraid of the real criminals as usual.
what a joke!
How pathetic.
Is it a joke?
Spoiler alert.
(No fines for bobos)
What do bobos mean?
250 outdoors with good spacing and fresh air, while not enforcing the guidelines of over capacity for the past few weeks? Makes sense only in GC
Large numbers of Jamaican nationals are unlikely to congregate for the Super Bowl. It will be predominantly North Americans, so the police feel they can act. Not closing any churches though…
You clearly do not realise that the “Jamaican aka non-white” RCIPS officers are not the DECISION MAKERS in the RICPS … look at the decision-makers who seem to be targeting North Americans and not the RCIPS officers tasked with carrying out the RCIPS Brass’s instructions.
I guess Xenophobes have no reasoning skills !!
They could arrest, charge and prosecute Skylar Mack with true world class effectiveness and efficiency. Everything else looks like shit. What inferences are we supposed to reach?
brits
RCIPS can go suck salt.
Let’s all go watch at the hospitals. One, they’re empty. Two, no limits to number of people.