Archive for November 18th, 2022
Teen runaway missing for almost two weeks
(CNS): Jahsmine Ebanks (14) from Bodden Town has now been missing since Monday, 7 November, and police are increasingly concerned for the young runaway’s safety. Jahsmine left the home where she is staying in Bodden Town with a friend, who has since been located. She was last seen wearing brown leggings and a long-sleeved black […]
Privy Council’s stranglehold Caribbean LGBTQIA+ people
(Colours Caribbean): The UK Privy Council, comprising judges of the UK Supreme Court, continues to enable the oppression of LGBTQIA+ people in the Caribbean by reversing progressive lower court decisions and upholding the enforceability and constitutionality of anti-LGBTQIA+ laws in those states (most of which were themselves introduced by the UK).
5k of cocaine seized from fishing boat
(CNS): Three Honduran men, aged 59, 42 and 39, were arrested on Friday, 11 November, after a midnight bust at sea by the Cayman Islands Coast Guard supported by the RCIPS helicopter. They have since been charged with the importation of cocaine and appeared in court Wednesday. According to the police, the coastguard and the […]
DG urges men to get check-ups after micro-heart attack
(CNS): Deputy Governor Franz Manderson has delivered a message from his hospital bed revealing that he was taken to hospital yesterday morning with chest pains and underwent an emergency procedure following what his doctors described as a micro-heart attack. The head of the civil service said he was doing much better and used the opportunity […]
Police focused on gang of local robbery suspects
(CNS): Detectives working on the long list of armed robbery investigations have honed in on what Police Commissioner Derek Byrne has said is around ten local suspects in a loosely affiliated crime gang. The police believe that these men are behind most of the recent stick-ups across Grand Cayman over the last three months. Since […]
Wanted gunman charged and remanded in jail
(CNS): Luisto Eusebio Hernandez (27), who has been on the run from police since July, has been tracked down in Bodden Town and charged with attempted murder and possession of an unlicensed firearm in connection with a shooting in Windsor Park in April. Police said that Hernandez was found on Monday, 14 November, and a […]