One man shot, gunmen on the loose
(CNS): As Cayman residents were preparing for a potential hurricane, police were tackling a spike in gun crime over the weekend that left one man critically wounded and a police officer facing the barrel of a gun. At 4am Saturday police responded to a report of shots being fired from vehicles on West Bay Road near Lime Tree Bay. It was reported that a man had been shot several times and was taken to the hospital in a white Honda sedan. The man sustained several life-threatening injuries and is currently in a critical condition.
Police said they seized the car used to take him to hospital as evidence but no arrests have been made and no guns recovered.
Several hours before this man was shot, police had responded to a smash involving two cars on Shamrock Road at around 10:50pm Friday. When they arrived, they found that the driver in one of the vehicles was injured while the second had fled. As one of the attending officers checked the surrounding area of the collision for the missing driver, he encountered a man fitting his description. When the officer stopped him, the suspect pulled a gun and aimed it an the unarmed officer, who retreated for his own safety.
The gunman made off on foot and the Firearm Response Unit was called to the scene but they were unable to find the suspect. After the scene was assessed as safe by Firearm Response Officers, the ambulance attended the location and took the injured driver to the hospital, where he was treated for non-life-threatening injuries and later released.
The vehicle that was driven by the man who fled the scene was recovered as evidence by investigators. Police said the gun was not believed to have been discharged during this incident and have not said if either of these incidents are connected.
Sometime between these two incidents, at around 1:10am on Saturday, police were also called to a report of shots being fired on Seaview Road in the vicinity of Fiddler’s Way, East End. However, when the Firearm Response Unit officers attended the location, they spoke with several people in the area who said they did not witness any gun-related incident or hear any shots fired. Searches conducted in the area revealed nothing suspicious.
These incidents are all being investigated by the RCIPS Criminal Investigations Department and detectives are encouraging anyone with information, especially those who were witnesses to call the Major Incident Room at 649-2930. Alternatively, anonymous tips can be provided directly to the RCIPS Confidential Tip Line at 949-7777 or the website.
Recruitment is and always had been the issue. Caymanian parents do not want their children to serve their country when the legal and financial sectors offer so much more. The Cayman only recruit classes haven’t worked with a high rate of officers leaving. At the end of the day a proper financial package together with realistic opportunities for Caymanians to progress is what’s needed.
You import 3rd world labour then expect 3rd world problems to go with it. Back in the late 90’s we were told about gangs but the then COP ignored that along with the Government, in the early 2000’s an assassination attempt was made on AG Bulgin so the highly skilled CID unit was disbanded to guard him. Around the same period Mac who was Head of Government decided to get 🤔 rid of the US Coast Guard station at ORIA. As you can clearly see we didn’t have proper border control nor effective policing in place,the same issues we have now in 2002 and I’m afraid if we keep with Jamaican police officers and tactics its only going to get worse. Wake up Cayman
Very true.
Would have been a great time to use the K9, oh wait we let that poor animal die an insufferable death due to incompetence and negligence. Investigation status? They will get to it once they solve the incident where someone stole the cocaine from the evidence locker.
I am sure the CCTV and RFID readers that are on the Lime Tree Bay roundabout picked up the whole incident, especially at 4am!!
Are you suggesting that we should deport all the gang members involved in shootings and other firearm crimes? Where will we send them?
To their homelands – Jamaica or Honduras in many cases.
Send them to Jamaica, which is either their mother or fatherland.
Anonymous @ 3:08 pm.
I bet when all is said and done you will find they are good ole’ Caymanians!
How much? I’ll take that bet!
Offspring from Mac’s status grant Jamaicans May well be Caymanians because they were born ya.
But nothing changes the fact that they are as Jamaican can be.
So, to be clear, are all you people who blame Jamaica and Honduras (and anyone else you can think of) saying that there is something about Caymanians that mean they just don’t commit serious crimes?
We should depart all moneylenders for sure.
Gangs? These are our young men that we have raised this way i.e. single moms an fatherless children. It’s only going to get worst as our social and community programs no longer exist.
What about the incident at ALT yesterday morning???
What happened there ?
AL Thompson’s?
Fight to the death over ALT’s last generator?
Riled-up attendees/consumer suppliers for an ill-timed Bounty Killah concert. Concert went til 4am (in a mostly residential area), on eve of what was perhaps record community anxiety for an inbound hurricane situation. RCIPS are truly clueless when it comes to diffusing the ingredients for violence.
So a virus can be kept out, but a gun and bullets can get in?
Something’s fishy.
Very fishy.
Import the 3rd world, and become the 3rd world.
It seems suspect, that the gunman who pointed the gun at the officer is either here on a wp or illegally.
It has become big business to profit on work permits. Most of these guys are not even qualified for the job. A friend or family charges a fee to get a work permit approval.
Then you find some of these guys are idle in the community and then start their bad habits.
I am sorry to say but that’s part of the problem.
How to weed out this work permit business is a challenge.
Seems like you have information the police could use?
Rick – are your seriously that oblivious?
Rick, common. it’s obvious at this point where these losers claim home.
Blame Wayne and Saunders, one is hell bent on turning us into little Jamaica while the other doesn’t have the Ba!!& to stop the first.
what we need is get rid some these jamaican officers out our force an send them back to there country they can’t control there own country how they going try control a next man world
I agree with the sentiment. The people of the islands would be better served by officers, that pledge to uphold the laws of the land, who suffer and benefit when enforcement fails/succeeds. Those with ties the community and have roots would be the ideal candidates.
However, we also need to address the fact that Caymanians do not want those positions in the numbers we need. We don’t have abled bodied Caymanian men looking to become police officers. We should start to analyse why that is. Is it a cultural thing? Is it discrimination in the hiring practice? Is it a compensation thing? We need to now do more than make these statements. No matter how true the statement may be, words are forgotten.
And yet we have embecile MPs going to crime riddled countries (Jam and Hon) with BS initiatives about food supply. What this Govt needs to do is get off their asses and do something tangible for the country. This incompetent government lacks in so many ways- they have done nothing since being elected. And when I say nothing, I mean nothing.
PACT has done little to nothing and, when they have done things, much of it is very questionable.
If you think those trips had anything to do with food supply I have a bridge to Little to sell you.
Fitting right in with this PACT/Jamaican government. Govern like them and the people become like them.
Or just import without limit. Cuts out the need to devolve slowly.
We have social inadequates from all over the world too, including UK, Europe and North America.
Two words:
CCTV Camera$$$???
Five words:
Eric Bush and Stuart Bostock
The size of the island there’s no excuse for any guns to be there. How can it be that the situation in Cayman is worse than in the U.K. with nearly 70 million people?!
How can it be? Cayman Incompetence!!! From bottom to top, Caymanian individuals are simply third-world! Please prove me wrong.
Jamaican incompetence, more than Caymanian incompetence.
Don’t forget UK’s and Europe’s social inadequates too.
Or the Trini’s and Canadians.
lol. it’s both.
12.36pm The reason might be our unfortunate geographical location. Stuck between Cuba, Jamaica and Honduras. Every one of them creates a different problem for us.
Only because we let it.
Because we have a lot of people from the UK.
Is this Caymaica?
The picture is quite fitting.
Sounds unfortunately like an incident from downtown Kingston. We needs better border protection.
Stop it with your racism.
Nothing racist. Very factual. Ask any of the million plus Jamaicans that were forced to flee their homeland in the ‘70’s. Certain murderous attributes are now prevalent, and are now amongst the few remaining exports of the godforsaken place – now gaining a foothold in Cayman.
FACTS: 1962 (upon independence) Jamaica murder rate 3.9 per 100,000 people, one of the lowest in the world.
By 2005 Jamaica murder rate was 1,674, or 58 per 100,000, THE HIGHEST MURDER RATE IN THE WORLD.
Something is seriously wrong with Jamaican society, and it obviously wasn’t the fault of the British.
That is what we are now in part importing. It is astounding, and undeniably true.
Drugs
Thug culture.
7:19, in many quarters nowadays, especially among left wing academics, everything is the fault of the British and the British Empire, even though most countries ( like Jamaica) got their independence at least 60 years ago.
Or slavery – 200 years ago.
UK did some major damage. You have to admit.
Yup. But not to a modern Jamaica. There they left a thriving economy, education, infrastructure, law and order, …
Yes, I agree 5:03. I wish the Empire had never existed rather as Germans born after World War 2 wished Hitler and his evil cronies had never existed. But the Empire and the British are not responsible, just as one example, for the corruption in the former colonies in Africa where despots/rulers for life steal vast riches and oppress their people far more than the Empire ever did. Another example: Hindus and Muslims are still fighting and killing each other 75 years after Independence came to India, and Pakistan was created (at the insistence of Muslims). Empire/the British are easy scapegoats for the corruption and incompetence of former colonies (Jamaica is just one) long long after they have had plenty time to put their own houses in order.
If we were to accept this as 100% true, it doesn’t change the fact that Jamaicans have allowed their country to fall apart.
Responsibility =/= Blame
Politriks……they have a party political system which we have now enshrined in ours……
Apparently nobody could see this coming even when we were copying our neighbors who are less than an hour away and couldn’t foresee what would happen.
Good ole Caymanian Common Sense from The Sacred Vessell.
Obviously you have a minority opinion. Might want to revisit your morals and ethics.
Race and nationality are two completely different things. Stop jumping on the racism bandwagon, stop defending your people’s criminality, stop destroying my country.
36.1% of Jamaicans born in Jamaica live outside of Jamaica? Why do you think that is? Because the places they have had to flee to are racist, or because their beautiful resource-rich country has become a murderous and corrupt cess-pool?
My parents brought me from jamaica when I was 4 years old. I have a jamaican culture and lifestyle for the most part but Cayman is my home 100%. I cannot go back to Jamaica to live even if I wanted to. The corruption and crime wouldn’t allow it.
Better border controls need to be in place. We need to be more selective of who comes to the islands on top of not caring what others say about us. At this point, we can no longer concern ourselves with the cries of ‘racism’ & discrimination because the issue will almost be too far gone to fix.
Drastic measures need to be taken in order to correct the issue now otherwise in the future, any solution will either be useless or have to be very draconian.
Try reading the definition of racism.