Overstayer uses murdered man’s passport
(CNS): Dennis Augustus Ramsay, who had attempted to leave the country on a dead man’s passport, pleaded guilty to two immigration offences on Monday and was remanded in custody. Ramsay, a Jamaican national, was arrested in May by Customs and Border Control officers after a Cayman Airways agent became suspicious of the passport he was using. It turned out that Ramsay, who had overstayed for ten years, was trying to use a passport that belonged to Dougmore Leroy Wright (44), who was murdered in Prospect in 2018.
According to evidence stated in court, prosecutors do not suspect that Ramsay was involved in the murder of Wright, who was gunned down on Prospect Drive in what was believed to be a drive-by shooting. No one has ever been charged with his murder.
Ramsay, who was arrested with the passport as he tried to board a flight to Honduras, claimed to have purchased the passport for $3,000. He has pleaded guilty to overstaying and altering a travel document and will be sentenced in September.
- Fascinated
- Happy
- Sad
- Angry
- Bored
- Afraid
How many more like him are here amongst us?
Hundreds.
Kudos to that CAL worker! If it wasn’t for them, that person would’ve been on the flight long time. CBC do better….
CBC. And WORC. And DLP. And Police. Frankly, the whole goddamned Civil Service who do not even recognize their responsibility, or the harm they are facilitating by not doing their jobs.
If CBC/Immigration/WORC’s system can know every time I land and leave here. They know every time a guest comes to me on this island at the airport!!!
SOOOOOO how is it that a WP expires in 2012, there is no application for PR, no application for extension of the WP, no new WP granted PLUS no record of departure from 2012 … and CBC/WORC/Immigration does NOTHING??????
This is beyond ridiculous !!!
It is actually a crime. A very serious one. The civil service takes millions of public funds to do a job that they literally refuse to do. There are no legitimate excuses. Covid, Ivan, illness. All irrelevant to the fact that despite a billion dollars in funding every year they cannot and will not do something as fundamental as accounting for the 65,000 souls that are here. This issue should have ll been automated 20 years ago. It shouldn’t even require a single hour of work to identify every overstayer the moment their permissions have expired, and they have not left. The issues are well known. Long identified and long-standing. Those responsible should be the subject of nothing but public disdain and prosecution. Instead they will get Franzies all round, while Cayman’s future is relinquished.
Need massive fines and or jail time for the persons that applied for the WP to ensure they report to WORC that they no longer require the WP and the holder now has to leave. How many hundreds of overstayers are there? Does anyone know?
Be really interesting to know how many times that [passport had been used since 2018.
How are you so consistently on the wrong side of every issue? It truly is an accomplishment!
How can you not recognise obvious sarcasm?
George, I’m very surprised that you are not right up there with our DG considering how completely out of touch your comment is. How on earth aren’t you in the upper echelon of or CS or even an elected MP even?
Yes .they must make him talk who he bought the passport from .and that will be their lead to the killer .that person who sold him a dead man passport disliked the deceased. Case is remains open . .congratulations to law inforcement .
Years ago the Enforcement section of Immigration would go to construction sites and check workers to see if they had a valid work peremit. If they had someone under their radar for overstaying, they would raid where they were staying in the early morning hours and make an arrest
CBC – you need to get out of the office and do your job! Too much illegal people on island, especially after the covid pandemic.
Don’t worry Cayman, CIG will have the fingerprint collection system up and running anyday now…………
Only if he gets a Cayman girl pregnant before his trial.
Irrelevant. The made up interpretations of the workings of human rights around here are astounding.
Remember which department our present DG worked in before his “ascension”?
Immigration and border security issues from the administrative side have existed internally for decades, to blind eyes, like a lot in the “world class” CS.
Selling English test passes is the least!
Your point is what? In this case they caught the guy.
No they didn’t. They were not even looking for him. They stubbed their toe on a dead man’s passport.
26 @ 6.50pm My point is the slackness, and worse (we know of exposed corruption there) has clearly compromised their quality of service to the public and security of the island. Duh!
The real issue where the passport came from.. That is the first step to maybe, just maybe, finding a murderer. The police and prosecutors don’t seem to be on top of this.
Wow you are really clever 👏
Seems you kinda blew that one.
You’d think he’d just go by boat… I’m sure that would have been less than $3k.
No ones in Government cares anymore and no one is held accountable. And the D G says everyone is working hard doing a good job. World class.???????????????
Years ago this would never happen and it’s getting worst.every day you see all these new faces here in cayman which cast me to wonder why is the government allowing all these in to this small little island is it just for the money?.
2:13, I beg to differ, this stuff has been going on for decades, the difference is that we now have technology, social media etc at our finger tips which is now catching them out.
This is what Govt do not seem to understand either; what was previously taken as normal because it was hidden from the public no longer is and they carry on like nothing is wrong.
Who did he buy the passport from?
Can the Caymanian people fathom the levels of incompetence and even maladministration self evident in this story.
The Immigration authorities literally lost a human being for more than a decade.
They know his name. Had his photograph. Had his date of birth. His nationality. They knew who his employer was. They knew everything that can be reasonably known. And when he didn’t leave or renew his immigration permissions, they did NOTHING. The public has never even been asked if we’ve seen him.
Then, for 10 years it seems he lived freely amongst us. No work permit? No problem. No health insurance? No problem. No pension payments? No problem.
Hell, he even survived an in person census, no problem.
Others have harbored him and employed him for a decade. No problem.
We are a small wealthy island. There is no legitimate way any of this should be even possible – let alone approaching mainstream.
And then he has a murdered guys passport…
And the Governor grins. And the commissioner says the crime situation is stable.
We are off the rails.
@12:46pm – Completely agree with you! One would hope the powers that be would at least bother to interrogate him on whom he bought said deceased man’s passport from!
My goodness the level of incompetency on display truly is deplorable.
Who employed him on his last work permit?
Where did he work the day after his last permit expired?
Where did he live according to his last permit?
Who was his landlord the day after his last permit expired?
When was his last pension payment made?
When did the pension provider report the sudden cessation of pension payments?
What is his cell phone number?
Where has his phone been, and when?
Who is being held accountable for the various breaches of law?
It is beyond mere incompetency. It is actually criminal. Yet our police and agencies responsible for good governance do nothing. They have become complicit. They are become scum, leaching off society, while Cayman is destroyed.
CBC you need to do better – he overstayed for 10 years.
You need to get back out on the streets and do checks on people, like the enforcement did years ago.
Cayman is no more. For the list and love of money we have allowed Cayman to become a tragic comedy.
Most countries would KILL to have what we had in the 80’s and early 90’s. Is on the other hand, want killers, rapist, thieves of all sorts.
Hopefully other countries will learn from our mistakes…you can’t nation build with uneducated, uncultured criminals. It just doesn’t work.
Shut up and leave this poor man alone. We need him here to do work, all you rich people want the cheap work done and do not care how it gets done as long as it is CHEAP!
Immigration needs to start hitting the Eastern Ave hot spots and check on all these job sites including the mighty Dart jobs. You will find housekeepers, car wash workers, landscapers and all sorts of people on work permits for jobs they are not even working on but because these unscrupulous contractors and developers are just looking for the cheapest labor, they have them on the jobs. Never will change though because the money developers control the government.
Not just Eastern Avenue. Hell, there are now illegal overstayers on the electoral roll, working in the civil service and attending university on government scholarships. The outright dereliction of duty and incompetence of the authorities concerned is astounding.
And the Governor grins. And the Commissioner says the crime situation is stable.
I can’t see the logic in wasting time taking an overstayer to court then hitting them with a fine they probably won’t be able to pay or jailing them. Where I worked abroad for a while they had a much cheaper solution – overstayers were taken to the airport in handcuffs and repatriated to their country of origin with nothing but the clothes they were wearing. Anything they owned was seized and the process cost the authorities no more than the price of their return air ticket. OK, it’s not exactly ‘human rights’ compliant but it worked.
Perfectly human rights compliant. Preferable is to require a 30 or 90 day prison sentence on the way out to act as a disincentive. We do not enforce laws around here. We are corrupt.
You are a racist
My disdain is reserved only for those destroying my country, and for those who facilitate the harm. Race is an irrelevance.
Is that what we have come to? Someone asks that our necessary and appropriate laws be followed and the immediate unflinching response is to accuse people of the vilest of characteristics?
But if they do not have a valid passport the airline will not take them
Then charter a plane and drop him at Mobay
You do realise that charter flights need passports too? Simple solution is to deport him back to his country of origin – destroying his original passport or having it expired no obstacle to a formal deportation order. Then you just handcuff him to a CBC officer and buy two seats on the next CAL flight.
12:52 He needed a valid passport to come here in the first place and that should still be on file. All CBC need to do is pull up the details and use that data on the extradition warrant. At the other end the CBC officer(s) hand him over to the local authorities and then it’s their problem. Odds are he’s got outstanding issues with the cops back home anyway
Simple and to the point 12:09 without all the what ifs that people love to hypothetically argue.
It human enough for me.
Arrest him for overstaying on his way out. Jail him at our expense. Then – put him on a plane off island at our expense. When he was about to leave at his own expense.
DETERRENCE. PUNISHMENT. ACCOUNTABILITY. CONSEQUENCES.
Important words. Learn them. Then you might understand.