Search still on for missing ganja boat crew
(CNS): The Cayman Islands Coast Guard, police and fire service continued searching Saturday for missing crew members after a ganja boat capsized in local waters Friday and one man was rescued. The first report received by the CICG was of packages floating in the general area of Governor’s Harbour Channel. The coastguard and fire service were dispatched to the area and searched the North Sound between Star Fish Point in North Side and Barkers in West Bay and recovered a number of packages, which police have confirmed was ganja.
Just after 1pm, as the search continued in the Blowers area, officers on board the CIFS vessel located a man floating in the water among several more packages of drugs. He was recovered from the water and immediately rendered first aid before being taken to shore and on to the hospital, where he is currently undergoing treatment.
The CICG, CIFS and the RCIPS helicopter then began to search for the other people who the police were told were on board when the vessel capsized, but so far no one else has been found. The search stopped overnight and resumed Saturday morning.
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Any idea what the radar signature looks lime on a fibreglass or wood canoe? Thought not.
If weed can’t be legal, then alcohol must be illegal
It’s legal in Canada.
Today, Canada is a corrupt, money laundering, petro-economy run to a Guatemalan standard. Spare us the moral high ground speeches on policy.
Unlike the corrupt C.I. government.
Yeah right. They’re not going to legalise it. Prohibition makes too much money for some people.
Anyone know why the Coast Guard heroes called off the search at 5pm on Friday? At least another hour or two of light left at that time… surely not a case of happy hour calling?!
I’m probably not smart enough to run The CICG, CIFS or the RCIPS, but I wouldn’t be looking for people until AFTER I had located the boat they were in.
And if it had sunk? Bearing in mind they started out looking for packages not people, and it was only after they located the survivor they started looking for the missing men. Presumably the survivor told them all 4 of them went in the water.
Leaglise it already, and stop wasting resources!
These boats aren’t just carrying weed, and legitimizing one of several illicit business lines doesn’t stop the multi-generational transshipment economy. Casual acceptance of transshipment on the false conclusion that it’s just innocuous ganja in the cargo hold, enables our gun violence, gang recruitment and related deaths, human trafficking, cocaine, heroin, fentanyl, corrupt gold, and whatever else gets here illicitly. Turning a blind eye doesn’t help with our FATF categorization outlook either. The criticism in this regard is justified.
To: Coast Guard Marine Unit operations base Commander:
Dear Sir.
Your North Sound compound in Savannah Newlands has some extremely bright night-time flood-lights , that you use to illuminate the North Sound side of your vessel docking area and compound. These lights shine directly out into the Sound in a northerly direction and are a vessel navigation hazard , as any vessels coming from Rum Point /Kaibo are running directly into the bright glare of your lights & affecting a boat operators night vision that has adjusted to dim back-ground lighting. An approaching vessel heading on a bearing North from Savannah Newlands will be lost in the glare of your lights to an on-coming vessel heading south , hence the navigational hazard , which I trust will be indicated by other leisure boat operators in the thumbs up section below.
Legalize it.
So basically us the tax payers are paying for these worthless people, wasting our police resources and now our government accumulating hospital debt. Leave them to fend for themselves, they want to play that kind of life, well then deal with the consequences.
They are still someone’s family member.
Yeah the type of families we don’t need here.
Cannabis smuggling only remains worth the risk because its illegality makes the black market trade very lucrative due to the large amounts of consumption.
In all my years since the 1960s, I can’t remember us ever being able to stop the smuggling. You can bust 10 boats, but only 1 needs to make it by for the drug lords to end up with a profit.
Personally, I do not purchase that brown crap anymorebecause I grow my own supply in my extra bedrooms ever since the wife passed and kids left. It’s a fun hobby, keeps my depression at bay and I also use it medically.
Legalise local production and I can guarantee you’ll see a lot less attempts to smuggle due to diminished demand for low quality herb. Why do we allow alcohol, which can be overdosed on, and tobacco, which is laced with physically addictive nicotine, but not a plant that is prescribed locally for medical uses?
Juju, what happened to your campaign promises to free up the herb? Was it all a façade to gain a last minute edge on Elvis?
– Caymanyun
How many lives does this ridiculous law need to take? I can walk into Doctors Express and buy months’ worth of cannabis to vape at my leisure. Or WhatsApp a guy who’ll deliver herb to my door cash in hand.
It’s a plant FFS, we are adults.
Agreed. My weed dealer delivers herb to my door more efficiently than the leading food delivery service.
Every time I gotta joke, you got a t&b license yet bobo? Thanks.
You smoking real usa dope buds or brown tasteless reggie from yard?
They made it from Jamaica and capsized in the North Sound?
Missed the channel on the way in and end up on the reef
Radar
I’ll raise you a traffic camera and readable license plates.
Yes Corporal?