Man shot dead at George Town business premises
(CNS): A 63-year-old local man was shot and killed on Monday evening at commercial premises on School Road, close to the Eastern Avenue junction in George Town. Police said they have opened a murder investigation but would not confirm any of the circumstances of the killing, which took place at around 8:30 last night during what is believed to have been an armed robbery.
When officers arrived at the scene, the man was on the floor with a gunshot wound to his head and unresponsive. He was taken to hospital, where he was pronounced dead by the doctor on duty.
This is the first murder of 2022 but comes after a string of armed robberies involving guns over the last few weeks.
The RCIPS is expected to hold a press conference shortly in order to release more details to the public. In the meantime, detectives are appealing to anyone with information about the incident to call the Major Incident Room on 649-2930.
Anonymous tips can be provided directly to the RCIPS via the Confidential Tip Line at 949-7777
or via the RCIPS website.
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Portugal took an interesting approach. They decriminalized all illegal drugs and treated addiction as a health care issue. You aren’t going to stop people using drugs, but you can mitigate the harms it causes to society. I am expat living in Cayman Islands (Came from Canada) only for the past year, so I don’t know the details of ho addiction is viewed here. In Canada, they also use a harm reduction approach and allow addicts to use while at the same time building relationships with them to get them help when they’re ready. I wonder if such an approach would be effective here?
Singapore took a much more effective approach. They just executed a drug smuggler. Their solution is MUCH more effective.
In Canada they teach us a little compassion goes a long way. There are ways to discourage the criminal element and get these people clean. If you want to play the long game, you have to take the profit out of it. Executing dealers does nothing, as another one will replace him before you can reload. If they stop making money, they will go away.
PACT need to be voted out they are doing absolutely noting. What real MP goes on a gossip facebook page to address a country?! They been on CMR more than the GOV platforms.
She owns their @$$
She is also more effective in solving crimes and identifying criminals than our entire RCIPS.
Why wont they release the CCTV footage? Why, why?
Is there any?
Yes. But the police are keeping it secret. We need to hope for a data breach so that we can identify the suspects.
Brutal and entirely senseless
Cayman has been in a downward spiral for some time. The country has never had the leadership needed to protect the country and the people from the depravity.
May the soul of the departed Rest In Peace and may his memories be a blessing.
Was only a matter of time. These scumbags are now desperate. Desperate means reckless and reckless means people get hurt.
Its could be that the government needs to do more than just appeal to rich people who want to land bank property. Its could be that government officials, who love to brag and boast for clout, need to actually address issues like this honestly. It will leak and spill and their ivory tower is not tall enough for them to escape this in the end.
We will become a just like a big city in the US soon. This notion that we can just continuously import people while the cost of living squeezes every ounce it can out of people, while we see constantly that the chances of getting away with crimes is higher than the chances of you getting caught will only continue this trend. Then when they have to make meaningful strides, much more extreme methods will be needed as opposed to doing what can be done now.
Becoming a big US city is MUCH better than becoming an extension of Jamaica and/or Honduras. THAT is what is happening, facilitated by an absent police force and an inept civil service.
The loss is tragic. I pray the victim is at peace. That does not assuage my bitter venom for the scum that did this, or the others who are steadily destroying Cayman.
I Think the comparison to a US major city is not what we are looking at , at this rate Cayman will be start resembling Kingston at best or Port au Prince at worst! It won’t take much more before we see people vote with their feet as insecurity develops on our small island!
Sounds like an excuse of which you are a sorry one.
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This is what i have to say concerning our government.their ears and mind are blocked to the public .and about how guns are coming into the island and the government know exactly how they are coming in.i say legalize ganja and let the people cultivate their own then they dont have to pay smugglers in Jamaica to bring it for them by boats .when ganja come by boats guns and cocaine are included in their order for shipment.
@2:59 if ganja was legalized, Jamaican’s will bring more cocaine and guns instead.
And if you do legalize ganja (which I am in agreement with), you’ll just get more cocaine boats.
The drug dealers aren’t going to say “Oh well, Ganja is legal in Cayman now. Time to retire”.
They will move to more coke, or opiods, or meth. Or….whatever. And the guns will still find their way to shore in the dark of night.
It’s really quite simple. The government should grow, process, tax and sell ganja. Allow personal growing. Importation remains a criminal offence.