Bus driver robbed by passengers at knifepoint
(CNS): Police are on the lookout for three men who robbed a bus driver of cash on Monday evening at around 8:40pm. The driver picked up the men in Bodden Town, but when the bus arrived in Prospect and pulled over near the McRuss Grocery store on Party Lane, the three passengers, all dressed in black hoodies, brandished a knife and took an undisclosed quantity of cash before they got off the bus and ran towards Mahogany Way.
The driver was not physically hurt during the incident, police said in a release.
All of the men were about 5’8″ tall. One of the men had a light complexion and hair styled in cornrows. The other two men had a dark complexion.
Anyone who may have witnessed the incident or seen anything suspicious in the area around the time the incident occurred is asked to contact George Town CID at 949-4222. Anonymous tips can be provided to the RCIPS Confidential Tip Line at 949-7777 or the website.
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Wow! Really? Robbing the poor bus man? Pathetic!
How are these buses not cashless yet? Get with the times, Cayman!
lol.. they can barely do cashless anywhere here. at no point should I have to hand my card over to a cashier to do a payment. the machine should be set to take the payment how i choose. tap, insert chip, or olde timey swipe. also the payment points should show the amount to be charged when entering a pin or tapping.
Great, then get ripped off by bank fees.
$2 bus fare, $3+ bank charges. I’ll pay cash thanks.
Go cashless and lose the majority of your customers. Great idea.
Prepaid bus transit cards could be sold at any gas station or store, or via app. All the taxis could be on “Curb” app or similar, like anywhere else. Cayman chooses to resist innovation when it should be embraced. Safer, more convenient with fleet stats, loss recovery, route mapping and other accountability.
Given the size of the fare and the fact that many of those using it probably do t have bank accounts, think that’s not workable.
I mean they top up just fine why can’t we have a top up bus fare system?
There you go again. Stop making sense and proposing simple solutions that can be implemented in mere months.
Don’t you know CIG will need to commission a million dollar study and then create a board who will then study the proposal. After a few years of beaurocracy, nothing will change.
A lot of the people using the bus don’t have access to debit cards. Maybe give it some thought before you post.
Like someone else said, imagine if buses were cashless? modern? well-driven? had designated stops? GPS app that shows where and when they will arrive?
Ah well, it won’t happen because we’re stuck in the past, and also the cash economy is used by those who usually catch the bus. I mean there’s options for cards that can be preloaded etc, but that’s too good an idea to get wrong.
Meanwhile, carry on. What’s a small amount divided by 3 by the way? utter cretins who probably failed maths.
That would mean saving the environment and less laying of cancer asphalt. Never in Cayman. Every minister wants abroad to be named after the.
They are just poor suppressed young men who are struggling. Cut them some slack for once.
Then go get a job, ask for help, go get further education and if you not from here go back home. People use poor excuses to commit crime. All public transportation should be cashless, use an App,pay card and have security cameras installed.
FFS NO EXCUSE! THIS is the problem, entitled idiots who are coddled by all those around them.
Sarcasm?
Sad and pathetic! It behooves me to say that CIG should impose a mandatory one year enrollment in Boot Camp for the youth.
Outlaw masks as they are worn either by criminals or cowards.
Respectfully, Batman disagrees.
so does my 94 year old granny.
Your made up scared lil granny? You are a joke.
Same for Spiderman, Iron Man, & Daredevil
Remind me to cough and sneeze next to you while not wearing a mask during the next pandemic.
Fear mongering will keep you in shackles and ignorance will keep you from enjoying the gift of life.
Another reason why there shouldn’t be any cash involved for transport in Cayman.
This is really sad – what Cayman has come to.
Little Jamaica.
there’s a reason why so many countries make it harder for them to get in
Were the fireworks boys at BK Jamaicans or Caymanians?
Shhhhh go back to sleep https://jcf.gov.jm/stats/
This is a very racist and derogatory comment about a race of good people.
I’m sorry, but I’m not sorry, and I’m not racist. What I say below is simple facts.
In all my road accidents, a Jamaican driver was at fault. One of them had no insurance or license, and to this day I’ve only been paid a fraction of the repair bill only to get “mi just had a child so mi cya pay yuh”
When both my car and motorcycle was stolen, each time it was Jamaicans.
Which culture influenced us in school to grow up chanting “Battiman fi ded!”? Which island to the east is rampant in murder? Jamaica. Not Brac.
My friend’s mother is a Jamaican, but guess what accent demanded her money on *East*ern Ave? Another Jamaican. Ever wonder why we call it little Kingston?
The guys that robbed the jewelry store the other day? Jamaican.
Where do most illegal immigrants and guns come from? Jamaica.
Who blasts derogatory music from their running vehicles, and at 2000 dB into the late AM from parties? Jamaicans.
Who skips the line and can’t queue the most? Jamaicans. Especially up in Welly’s as if they’re entitled to.
Who comes here for a better life, but violates work permit regulations the most? I’ll leave it there.
Again, I grew up with and still have Jamaican friends who I love dearly, but this isn’t a case of the few rotten apples spoiling it for the good. This is the whole bunch having a ton of spoilt in it with the few good apples getting a negative reputation because of the mix.
I get it. You certainly may be a great human. But unfortunately your people come here and definitely paint a negative image. I’ve never had such interactions with the Philipenos, Indians or Canadians.
Blah, blah, blah… You are still a racist, just saying. Truth sucks.
You either love to shout and bury your head in the sand or you are one of the turds contributing to the stereotype.
9.58pm Nationality is not a race and every word 12 22pm said is true. Your people have ruined my island and our young people. Yet CAL bringjng more in daily
re “Who blasts derogatory music from their running vehicles, and at 2000 dB into the late AM from parties? Jamaicans” – Cubans near me CONSTANTLY blast their music out all day and night, not just Jamaicans
Caymanians too!
They aren’t their own race.
derogatory.. yeah. but racist? no. on its face it’s not about singling out one ethnic group of Jamaicans, but the country as a whole.
At the risk of being perceived as a racist turd, “Jamaican” isn’t a race, however it is a group of people with a cultural identification. That culture has been embraced for the most part by Cayman, however the Jamaican culture in Cayman has difficulties, same as any other folk who don’t “do as the Romans do.”
Within any culture, the extremes are what gets noticed, and it’s not right, but it happens. It’s not that Jamaicans are loud, but that many times when our ears are assaulted by an overbearing thumpbass of a car stereo, it is often a young Jamaican male driving with his windows down. Why are the windows down? Well, I was young once also, so I know the answer to that question. Do you?
Jamaican people are good folk. Good music, fellowship and food come from the culture. What we notice are the extremes.
I notice the crime, trash and bad driving. You can’t miss it.
3.18 It’s not the extremes it’s the norm with them. They are also loud. Had the most beautiful island and best music in the 40’s to 70’s and ruined it but the good still make excuses for the bad and the bad outnumber the good.
Unfortunately the few spoil it for the many, everywhere they go.
I prefer to call it what my grandparents called it: Stereotyping.
Truth is not racist.
The jails of UK Canada Florida filled with Jamaicans.
Here they have Caymanian names because the stupid baby mama got pregnant by one of them.
Yes but don’t forget the stupid baby fadda who breeds the J’can baby mama here in Cayman, or during their pleasure trips to Ja.
The more foreign poverty we import, the worse things get. Who could have seen that coming?
💯 Exactly!
I suspect these will be young Caymanians when they are caught. The Cause lists are filled with these surnames. Few nationals have anything on this generation of young Caymanian entitlement. In fact, we must now release hardened prisoners early, to create space for the volume of homegrown offenders that have to be removed from society in their teens and twenties. Deny or own it, that’s the reality.
It should not be news to anyone with two brain cells to rub together that any cause lists are filled with the most common local surnames. Look back at wherever it is you come from and you will find exactly the same.
Caymanians don’t have the opportunity to scamper back home when shit hits the fan for them. They have to stick around and take their licks.